(December 1979)
Archie,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Published 9 times a year in February, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and December.
- On-sale Date
- 1979-10-16
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Music Corp.
- Brand
-
Archie Series; Archie Comics Group
- Barcode
- 0271000697412
- Editing
- John Goldwater (as John L. Goldwater) (editor); Richard Goldwater (as Richard H. Goldwater) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from Comic Reader #173.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo ?
- Inks
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wonder how spaghetti was invented?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Geraldine Grundy; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Ethel Muggs; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
Artist credits a guess based on the De Gold Spaghetti box.
The Joiner
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're quitting the football team?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie quits the football team so he can join the women's softball team.
- Reprints
-
in Betty and Veronica Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1987 series) #4 (December 1987) - in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #184 (December 2001)
- in Archie Comics Spectacular: Sports Time (Archie, 2014 series) (2014)
- in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #2 (April 2014)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #98 (June 2020)
-
- Keywords
- football; softball
Noise Annoys
Reggie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I struck out 15 batters in the Central High game!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Reggie brags about his accomplishments but Archie makes him be quiet in a hospital zone.
- Reprints
- in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #53 (December 1987)
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #31 (November 2013)
-
I "C"
Charley / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Edwards ?
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here's another homework problem, Charley!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
- Reprints
The Egg Beater
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Grrrr!...He made me so mad I should have belted the flaky, big mouthed weirdo!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- When Veronica is offended by a new student in school, Archie offers to teach him a lesson until he learns that the new student is much bigger than he is.
- Reprints
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #280 (August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint.
Perfect Pitch
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, no! Here comes that pushy salesman again!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead send a door to door salesman over to bother Reggie.
- Reprints
- in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #53 (December 1987)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #79 (July 1995)
- in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #28 (November 2017)
-
- Keywords
- door to door salesman
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint.
Horse Course
Archie / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, we seem to have lost the bridle path!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, take this order to Mrs. Lang!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
- Reprints
Full Moon Follies
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils
- Harry Lucey
- Inks
- Chic Stone
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right, wiseguy! We'll ask this guy!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie becomes convinced that this is a time of year when weirdos and wise guys are compelled to come up to him and make stupid jokes. So he disguises himself as an old woman to avoid weirdos.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #246 (August 1975)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I wonder how spaghetti was invented?"]
Archie -
1.
The Joiner
Archie -
2.
Noise Annoys
Reggie -
3.
I "C"
Charley -
4.
A Wise Test
-
5.
The Egg Beater
Archie -
6.
Perfect Pitch
Archie -
7.
Archie Club News
Archie Club News -
8.
Horse Course
Archie -
9.
["Archie, take this order to Mrs. Lang!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
10.
Full Moon Follies
Archie -
11.
The Bookworm Turns
Hostess Fruit Pies; Josie
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