(Spring 1942)
Archie,
1941 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-03-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
- Editing
- Harry Shorten
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
[no title indexed]
Black Hood; Steel Sterling / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Montana (signed as Montana)
- Inks
- Bob Montana (signed as Montana)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
[The Lost Colony]
Steel Sterling / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; VILLAINS: Captain Scragg (intro; flashback); the Nazis
- Keywords
- The inking style varies over the course of the story. Some of it looks like Mort Meskin.
World Wonders
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Dale Goss [as Goss] (signed)
- Pencils
- Dale Goss [as Goss] (signed)
- Inks
- Dale Goss [as Goss] (signed)
- Genre
- non-fiction
Zogi the Yogi
Clancy and Looney / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Looney [Alec Lunar]; Sgt. Clancy; Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; VILLAIN: Zogi the Yogi (intro)
Relax--And Die
Steel Sterling / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Steel Sterling [John Sterling]
The Case of the Haunted Violin
Black Hood / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Hood [Kip Burland; aka Matthew Kipling Burland]; VILLAIN: Octavius (intro; dies)
Murder On Wheels
Black Hood / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Hood [Kip Burland; aka Matthew Kipling Burland]
[Trip to Bear Mountain]
Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bob Montana (signed as Montana)
- Pencils
- Bob Montana (signed as Montana)
- Inks
- Bob Montana (signed as Montana)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Scotty; Streaky Shore
- Synopsis
- Archie gets initiated into the Philomathian club but hurts Mr. Weatherbee in the process. As a result, Archie is banned from the class boat ride. Jughead persuades Archie to go because Mr. Weatherbee never goes on the boat rides. However, he does and Archie has to avoid him.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #21 (July-August 1946) which is reprinted - in Archie Archives (Dark Horse, 2011 series) #6 (August 2012)
- in The Best of Archie (Putnam Publishing Group, 1980 series) (1980)
- in Archie Americana Series (Archie, 1991 series) #1 - Best of the Forties (1991)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #133 (September 2009)
- in Archie Firsts (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)
- in Archie Archives (Dark Horse, 2011 series) #1 (May 2011)
- in The Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2011 series) #4 ([August] 2014)
- in Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (Archie, 2016 series) #8 (May 2017)
- in Best of Archie Americana (Archie, 2017 series) #1 - Golden Age 1940s-1950s (2017)
- in Archie Milestones Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2019 series) #7 (March 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Gives setting of New York tri-state area, with references to the Hudson River and Bear Mountain.
First appearance of Reggie Mantle and Mr. Weatherbee.
Reggie Mantle shown to be wealthy.
World Wonders
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Dale Goss [as Goss] (signed)
- Pencils
- Dale Goss [as Goss] (signed)
- Inks
- Dale Goss [as Goss] (signed)
- Genre
- non-fiction
[The Lost Tribe of Genghis Khan]
Mr. Justice / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Joe Blair
- Pencils
- Warren King (signed)
- Inks
- Warren King (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mr. Justice [Prince James]; VILLAINS: Professor Norton (Dies--twice); the tribe of Genghis Khan (intro)
Indexer Notes
Per Bud Plant e-mail on 4/6/07, art was signed by Warren King. Pencil and ink credits were originally attributed to Sam Cooper.
[The Rescue of Margie Knox]
Sergeant Boyle / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Harry Shorten
- Pencils
- Carl Hubbell (signed as Hubbell)
- Inks
- Carl Hubbell (signed as Hubbell)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Sergeant Boyle; General Knox (intro); Margie Knox (intro); VILLAINS: The Japanese
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Black Hood; Steel Sterling -
1.
[The Lost Colony]
Steel Sterling -
2.
World Wonders
-
3.
Zogi the Yogi
Clancy and Looney -
4.
Relax--And Die
Steel Sterling -
5.
The Case of the Haunted Violin
Black Hood -
6.
Murder On Wheels
Black Hood -
7.
[Trip to Bear Mountain]
Archie -
8.
World Wonders
-
9.
[The Lost Tribe of Genghis Khan]
Mr. Justice -
10.
[The Rescue of Margie Knox]
Sergeant Boyle
This issue was modified by, among others
- Luke A.
- Keith Chandler
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Roy Lyons
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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