(February 1972)
Archie,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- ?
Sensible Season
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Times are changing and my generation doesn't buy all this commercialism at Christmas, which is forced on the public by the merchants of materialism!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie protests the materialism of Christmas but the Andrews still give each other gifts.
- Reprints
-
in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #30 (February 1984) - in Archie's Holiday Fun Digest (Archie, 1997 series) #6 (December 2001)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #284 (January 2018)
-
- Keywords
- Christmas; gift; present; surfboard
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #284.
The Snow Blower
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 2ยข to see the unusual snow man
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Greg; Li'l Jinx; Gigi
- Synopsis
- Jinx and Gigi scam Greg out of two cents.
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Twas the night before Christmas.
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica are frightened by a mouse.
Cool Carl the Snowman
Jughead / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jug, who ever heard of a snowman with long sideburns?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Santa Claus (in Jughead's story); Cool Carl (in Jughead's story); Harold (in Jughead's story); Reggie Mantle; Leroy (Veronica's cousin)
- Synopsis
- Jughead tells some kids a story about Cool Carl the Snowman.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #64 (February 1984)
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Color Blind
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cute! Aren't they, Arch?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Booker; Tim
- Synopsis
- A little boy does odd jobs for Archie and Jughead to raise money to buy a mynah bird for his friend.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #64 (February 1984)
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[no title indexed]
Veronica / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly, Archie! What will we do if the chair lift gets stuck up here?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie reassures Veronica that if the ski lift gets stuck, everything will be just fine.
Jolly St. Nick
Reggie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Man! Doesn't ol' Moose love to play Santa Claus?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Reggie and Midge take advantage of Moose's Santa Claus gig.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #215 (February 1969)
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Droll Soul
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Poor Archie crashed into the tree!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Crashing into a tree while skiing is just one of Archie's problems.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #140 (March 2003)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #257 (February 2015)
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Food For Thought
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, Mrs. De Carlo! This is Li'l Jinx's father---is she there?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Hap Holliday; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Hap calls around the neighborhood trying to track Jinx down.
Indexer Notes
Hap talks to four of Jinx's friends' mothers, each of whom shares her last name with an Archie artist (De Carlo, Schwartz, Lucey, Vigoda).
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie Montage Contest Winners!
Indexer Notes
List of winners of the Archie Montage Contest, letters from Donna Wells (1st prize) and Rosalla Monti (2nd prize), and instructions on joining the Archie Club.
Date Strait
Betty / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dad, I'm going to a movie and then afterwards to Pop Tate's!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Hal Cooper; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty realizes she needs some money from her dad for her date with Archie.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #73 (April 2003)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #158 (April 2008)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #237 (February 2014), #278 (April 2020)
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The Fools on the Hill
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Just a few minor improvements and---
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mack; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica persist in building a snowman on the school ground, despite the interference of Archie and Jughead.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #59 (April 1983)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #12 (April 1989)
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Table of Contents
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0.
["Man! I think this Woman's Lib scene is getting out of hand!"]
Archie -
1.
Sensible Season
Archie -
2.
The Snow Blower
Li'l Jinx -
3.
["Twas the night before Christmas."]
Betty and Veronica -
4.
Cool Carl the Snowman
Jughead -
5.
Color Blind
Archie -
6.
["Golly, Archie! What will we do if the chair lift gets stuck up here?"]
Veronica -
7.
Jolly St. Nick
Reggie -
8.
Droll Soul
Archie -
9.
Food For Thought
Li'l Jinx -
10.
["Archie Montage Contest Winners!"]
Archie Club News -
11.
Date Strait
Betty -
12.
The Fools on the Hill
Betty and Veronica -
13.
["Moose, where would you like to hang a sock?"]
Big Moose
This issue was modified by, among others
- Joey Beretta
- Peter Croome
- James Ludwig
- Scott Marshall
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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