Life with Archie
#272
[Newsstand]
(May 1989)
Archie,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 6 times a year in Jan., Mar., May, Jul., Sept., and Nov.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Barcode
- 076956145034 05
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (credited) (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (credited as Richard Goldwater) (editor-In-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Hot and Cold Running Weather!
Life with Archie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey (signed as Rex W. Lindsey)
- Inks
- Rex Lindsey (signed as Rex W. Lindsey)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Reprints
- Keywords
- snow
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The Night the Lights Went Out At Archie's!!
Life with Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Harold Smith (credited as Hal Smith)
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Dilton Doily
- Synopsis
- During a power failure the gang tell an add-on tale.
Ghosties
Archie / activity / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- A scrambled letter quiz.
Indexer Notes
No credits given for quiz.
Hot & Cold Running Weather! Part One
Life with Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead arrive in a town where it never snows.
- Reprints
-
in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #110 (April 2005), #176 (February 2012) - in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #307 (April 2020)
-
Hot & Cold Running Weather! Part Two
Life with Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead arrive in a town where it never stops snowing.
- Reprints
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #110 (April 2005), #176 (February 2012)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #307 (April 2020)
-
Confidentially Speaking
Betty / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Big Ethel Muggs; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Ethel can't keep her mouth shut.
- Reprints
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #130 (March 2005)
- in World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2021 series) #1 (February 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
No credit given for gag.
Steppin' Out
Archie / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie wearing fashions from fan submissions.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #127 (May 1994)
-
Losers Weepers
Life with Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Vicki Morgan; Loretta Morgan
- Synopsis
- Archie and Reggie find a lost purse.
- Reprints
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #237 (March 2013), #305 (February 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
When this story was reprinted in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #237, the pencils were credited to Sal Amendola. All other credits match the credits listed in the digest.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Hot and Cold Running Weather!
Life with Archie -
1.
The Night the Lights Went Out At Archie's!!
Life with Archie -
2.
Ghosties
Archie -
3.
Statement of Ownership
-
4.
Hot & Cold Running Weather! Part One
Life with Archie -
5.
Hot & Cold Running Weather! Part Two
Life with Archie -
6.
Confidentially Speaking
Betty -
7.
Steppin' Out
Archie -
8.
Losers Weepers
Life with Archie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Matthias Hofmann
- Thomas Johnson
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Terry Watkins
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