(January 1963)
Archie,
1954 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- five times yearly: January, June, August, September and December
- On-sale Date
- 1962-10-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Archie's Christmas Stocking
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here are the keys, son! It's all yours! ...Complete with sugar plums!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Santa Claus
- Keywords
- Christmas; Santa Claus
![Cover Thumbnail for Archie Giant Series Magazine (1954 series) #20 [Canadian]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1306/w100/1306610.jpg?6729746960776743126)
Boxed In
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is a Christmas list?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie decides to wrap himself in a big box for Veronica's Christmas present.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
-
R Is for Rooked
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- G-Greater love hath n-no man!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Gaston; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie sends Jughead over to Veronica's house to find out what she's getting him for Christmas.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
-
[no title indexed]
Veronica Pin Up Page / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, I forgot to tell you...Archie just stepped out for a coke!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Reprints
Escape
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I like a white Christmas as much as the next guy, but this is ridiculous!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- This Christmas, Mr. Lodge is going away on a vacation so Archie won't ruin the holiday for him. Unfortunately, Veronica has forgotten to reserve her father's plane ticket, and when Archie tries to make the reservation, he winds up getting Mr. Lodge shipped to Alaska.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
- in Archie's Classic Christmas Stories (Archie, 2002 series) #1 (2002)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
Hot and Cold!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Brrrr... winter is no fun!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx Holliday; Greg
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
-
Veronica's Christmas Card
Veronica / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge
Betty's Christmas Card
Betty [Archie] / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty poses in a sexy Christmas outfit while painting a card of Christmas cheer.
- Keywords
- Christmas
Monster Monopoly
Archie / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Man, I really dig monster movies!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead make a monster snowman.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
-
The Hard Way
Shrimpy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! Watch my next stunt!
- Genre
- humor; children
Picture Frame
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I never want to see you again! I never want to speak to you again! I never want to hear of you again!
- Feature Logo
Archie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Archie gets Betty and Veronica to frame pictures of himself but delivers one to Veronica's house that has Betty's name on it.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
- in Archie's Christmas Stocking (Archie, 1993 series) #1 ([January] 1994)
- in Archie's Holiday Fun Digest (Archie, 1997 series) #4 (January 2000)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #273 (December 2016)
- in The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series) (2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint in The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series).
Go for Broke
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yuletide greetings, bubblebrain!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Reggie plays a prank on Archie that makes him drop and break a bottle of perfume that Archie was going to give to Veronica.
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #6 (January 1975)
- in Archie's Christmas Stocking (Archie, 1993 series) #3 (1995)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #294 (January 2019)
- in Archie 80 Years of Christmas (Archie, 2021 series) (2021)
-
- Keywords
- prank
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #294.
The Return of Jingles
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's that time of year again, ol buddy!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jingles; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Santa Claus; Jangles; Jeeves
- Synopsis
- Archie and his friends get another Christmas visit from Jingles, Santa's delinquent brownie. This time around, two of Jingles' fellow brownies, Jangles and Jeeves, make an unauthorized visit, and the three magical creatures get into a pier six brawl over who gets Riverdale as his territory.
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #6 (January 1975)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #70 (February 1985)
- in Betty and Veronica Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1987 series) #17 (February 1990)
- in Archie's Classic Christmas Stories (Archie, 2002 series) #1 (2002)
- in Archie's Favorite Christmas Comics (Archie, 2014 series) (2014)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas
The Willing Spirit
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie Andrews, you are out of your head!!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie tells Reggie he's giving Veronica to him for Christmas.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
-
Black Book Bonanza
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- B-but, Moose! I'm not doing any work!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Moose thinks Archie is Santa's helper and is writing down who is naughty or nice in his little black book.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #3 (December 1973)
- in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #12 (December 2018)
- in Archie 80 Years of Christmas (Archie, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #12.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Archie's Christmas Stocking
Archie -
1.
Boxed In
Archie -
2.
R Is for Rooked
Betty and Veronica -
3.
["Oh, I forgot to tell you...Archie just stepped out for a coke!"]
Veronica Pin Up Page -
4.
Escape
Archie -
5.
Hot and Cold!
Li'l Jinx -
6.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
7.
Veronica's Christmas Card
Veronica -
8.
Betty's Christmas Card
Betty [Archie] -
9.
Monster Monopoly
Archie -
10.
The Hard Way
Shrimpy -
11.
Picture Frame
Archie -
12.
Go for Broke
Archie -
13.
The Return of Jingles
Archie -
14.
The Willing Spirit
Archie -
15.
Black Book Bonanza
Archie -
16.
Christmas Fashions for Betty and Veronica
Betty and Veronica
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