Archie Giant Series Magazine
#606
[Direct]
(January 1990)
Archie,
1954 Series
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Published 13 times a year: Once in July and November, three times in January and September, and five times in October.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick; Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This Christmas shopping is tough, my finger is killing me!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
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Visions of Sugar Plums
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi Veronica!
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Sugar Plum Fairy; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- At a Christmas party, Betty and Veronica both use Sugar Plum to help them get Archie to themselves.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #132 (February 1995) - in Archie's Holiday Fun Digest (Archie, 1997 series) #5 (January 2001)
- in Archie Comics Super Special (Archie, 2012 series) #1 (December 2012)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #248 (December 2016)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Compendium (Archie, 2017 series) (2017)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas party; fairy
Sugar Bear and Bird Brain
Sugar Bear; Post Super Golden Crisp / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- animal
- Characters
- Sugar Bear
- Synopsis
- While bicycling up a mountain, Sugar Bear has to fight off a large bird who wants his Super Golden Crisp cereal.
- Keywords
- bicycle; mountain
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Post Super Golden Crisp breakfast cereal.
Dear Betty and Veronica
Betty and Veronica / letters page / 1 page
- Synopsis
- "Betty and Veronica" give advice to readers.
The Gambler
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let me tell you about a gambling woman I know!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- The gang imposes spending limits for their Christmas presents to each other, much to Veronica's dismay.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Christmas Stocking (Archie, 1993 series) #2 (1994)
- in Archie's Holiday Fun Digest (Archie, 1997 series) #4 (January 2000)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #258 (January 2018)
- in Archie Giant Comics Roll (Archie, 2018 series) (2018)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas; credit card; gambling; gift; present
Label Lullaby
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good heavens, Betty!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Chuck Clayton (cameo); Nancy Woods (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Betty gets involved in collecting food labels in order to buy the local orphanage a new TV. Wanting Archie all to herself, Veronica asks her dad to advertise Betty's quest on his TV stations, resulting in even more labels being sent to Betty. Betty buys the orphanage a new van due to the huge number of labels. She credits Veronica, who in turn is touched by the orphans' genuine thanks.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Christmas Stocking (Archie, 1993 series) #2 (1994)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jamboree (Archie, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #217 (December 2013), #319 (January 2024)
-
Betty's Christmas Fashions
Betty / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (credited)
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- fashion
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #132 (February 1995)
-
The Gift of a Lifetime
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Kathleen Webb (credited)
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Quick, Betty, I need your Christmas list so I can get my shopping done!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Jughead convinces Veronica to give Betty a Christmas present of a date with Archie.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #44 (December 2014)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["This Christmas shopping is tough, my finger is killing me!"]
Betty and Veronica -
1.
Visions of Sugar Plums
Betty and Veronica -
2.
Sugar Bear and Bird Brain
Sugar Bear; Post Super Golden Crisp -
3.
Dear Betty and Veronica
Betty and Veronica -
4.
The Gambler
Betty and Veronica -
5.
Label Lullaby
Betty and Veronica -
6.
Betty's Christmas Fashions
Betty -
7.
The Gift of a Lifetime
Betty and Veronica
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