Mad House
#125
(August 1981)
Archie,
1974 Series
- Price
- 0.50 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 4 times a year in Feb., May, Aug. and Oct.
- On-sale Date
- 1981-06-16
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series; Archie Comics Group
- Barcode
- 0271000697708
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Madhouse Comics".
On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.
On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Your highness! You promised me a huge ruby if I slew the dragon!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ruby; Shylock Homes; Captain Sprocket
Indexer Notes
Vignettes around title come from "The Super Snooper," "The Mad House Gift Catalog," and "Olympic Shtick."
The Super Snooper
Mad House / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Characters
- Shylock Homes; Lady Van Plushlife; Whatson; Fifi
- Synopsis
- Shylock Homes and his partner Whatson search for Lady Van Plushlife's missing poodle Fifi.
Well Shut My Mouth
Guys & Girls / comic story / 1 page
- Synopsis
- A man drives by a hospital to stop his girlfriend from talking.
Olympic Shtick
Captain Sprocket / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Benson
- Synopsis
- Captain Sprocket competes in the Olympics, where he is so athletically gifted that he is disqualified from or loses every event.
- Reprints
-
in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #21 (October 2012)
-
Mad House Sport Oddities
comic story / 2 pages
- Characters
- Mean Jack Huddle; Lefty Flinger; Bruno Skinflint; Sheldon Chucker; Melton Dropkick; Pierre Laslash
- Synopsis
- Various fictional athlete biographies.
Getting the Jump on the Game
Mad House / comic story / 3 pages
- Synopsis
- In a pantomime story, a racquetball player gets so good at returning high shots that he loses a real game on a low shot.
[no title indexed]
Dear Aunt Gabby / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Eda Edwards (credited as Aunt Gabby)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When I'm in class, my mind seems to wander!
- Characters
- Aunt Gabby
It's Enough to Make You Cry!!!
Mad House / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Dick Malmgren
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Synopsis
- Various vignettes of a man's unfortunate attempts at dating a girl.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Your highness! You promised me a huge ruby if I slew the dragon!"]
-
1.
All-American Celebration
Archie; Hostess Fruit Pies -
2.
The Super Snooper
Mad House -
3.
Well Shut My Mouth
Guys & Girls -
4.
The Mad House Gift Catalog
-
5.
Olympic Shtick
Captain Sprocket -
6.
Mad House Sport Oddities
-
7.
Getting the Jump on the Game
Mad House -
8.
["When I'm in class, my mind seems to wander!"]
Dear Aunt Gabby -
9.
It's Enough to Make You Cry!!!
Mad House
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