Life with Archie
#216
(August 1980)
Archie,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 9 times a year in Feb., March, April, June, July, August, Sept., Nov., and Dec.
- On-sale Date
- 1980-06-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Music Corp.
- Brand
-
Archie Series; Archie Comics Group
- Barcode
- 0271000696308
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #180.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We gymnasts have many different routines!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
- Reprints
-
in Archi - Serie Avestruz (Editorial Novaro, 1975 series) #142 (30 de noviembre de 1981)
-
Getting Noticed
Hostess Fruit Pies; Josie / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Okay, we're off!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Valerie Brown; Alan M. Mayberry
- Synopsis
- Josie and Valerie are running in a ten mile race, but stop from exhaustion midway. To replenish their energies, they bring out Hostess Fruit Pies from their packs and soon everyone in the race has stopped to join them.
Machine Master
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Watch it, Betty!
- Genre
- crime; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Machine Master
- Synopsis
- Machine Master uses his lifelike robots to steal from the museum, but Archie and Betty have trouble turning him in.
- Reprints
-
in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #67 (April 1990) - in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #108 (February 2007)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #15 (April 2012)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #285 (February 2018)
-
- Keywords
- android
Man at Work
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I always do my hardest work before breakfast, Li'l Jinx!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #52 (December 1991)
- in Tales from Riverdale Digest (Archie, 2005 series) #14 (November 2006)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #284 (November 2020)
-
The One and Only
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Jinx! Did you eat all the cookies?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #52 (December 1991)
- in Tales from Riverdale Digest (Archie, 2005 series) #14 (November 2006)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #284 (November 2020)
-
A Late Fate
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren (credited)
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren (credited)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Holy mackerel!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead stay out too late bowling and have to sneak into their houses without waking their parents.
- Reprints
- in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #58 (August 1989)
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #117 (November 1993)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #233 (November 2012), #312 (October 2020)
-
- Keywords
- bowling
The Doggie Bag
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Watch it, Betty!
- Genre
- humor; animal; crime; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- When a vicious dog barks at Archie and Betty they start feeding it and make friends with it.
- Reprints
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #110 (December 2002)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #238 (December 2015)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["We gymnasts have many different routines!"]
Archie -
1.
Getting Noticed
Hostess Fruit Pies; Josie -
2.
Machine Master
Archie -
3.
Man at Work
Li'l Jinx -
4.
The One and Only
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Danger Ahead
Archie -
6.
A Late Fate
Archie -
7.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
8.
The Doggie Bag
Archie
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