(June 1963)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- seven times a year in February, April, June, August, September, October, and December
- On-sale Date
- 1963-04-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I get a kick out of these free earth movies!
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Keywords
- aliens; drive-in movies; flying saucer; slingshot
Indexer Notes
Schwartz background joke has one of the cowboys on the movie screen using a slingshot instead of a gun.
The Magazine With Walking Commercials
table of contents / 1 page
- Characters
- The Pink Martian; Lester Cool; Chester Square; Hilda the Witch
- Synopsis
- Characters wearing sandwich-signs identifying their section.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
The Teen-Age Section / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lester, do you have any suggestions for improving this section?
- Characters
- Lester Cool; Chester Square
- Synopsis
- Chester drops suggestions in a box that are directed into a wastebasket.
- Keywords
- suggestion box
Jinx Minx
Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch; Tom; Hortense; Mary Jane
- Synopsis
- Sabrina sets her sights on finding a handsome boy at a dance, but all her magic misfires.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- broom; dance; hypnotism; love potion; splinter
Love Sick
Les 'n' Ches / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Lester Cool; Chester Square
- Synopsis
- Chester can't get a date, so he fills out a computer form to find his perfect match.
- Keywords
- computer dating; robot
[no title indexed]
It Just Seems That Way! / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The night before exams!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Lester Cool (host); Chester Square (host)
- Synopsis
- How the imagination makes things seem worse than they are: the night before exams; the cost of a date; the way your boyfriend looks at another girl; and playing hooky at the movies
- Keywords
- allowance; exams; hooky; jealousy; movie theater; truant officer
Indexer Notes
Four one-panel cartoons
[no title indexed]
Space Section / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee, Pinky - We don't have anywhere near this much snow on Earth!
- Characters
- The Pink Martian
- Synopsis
- When the Pink Martian points out to an Earth girl that it snows every day on Mars, she retorts that that's the reason why Martians give Earth gals snow jobs.
- Keywords
- alien; flying saucer; Mars; Martian; snow
The Ray Caper or "The Truth Can Be Uncouth"
Captain Sprocket / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Thelma
- Synopsis
- Captain Sprocket is called upon when Plutonians land on Earth with their truth rays, which are causing all sorts of problems.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #241 (March 2008)
-
- Keywords
- aliens; baseball; ejector seat; medal; Pluto; taxes; television; truth ray; TV commercials; Washington D.C
Indexer Notes
Sprocket's girlfriend in this story is Thelma. In later stories it's Doris.
Planet Hopping
The Pink Martian / comic story / 2.8 pages
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- The Pink Martian
- Synopsis
- The Pink Martian lands on a planet that fears Earth because they think its inhabitants are giants.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #241 (March 2008)
-
- Keywords
- alien; flying saucer; martian; Trojan Horse
Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1962
statement of ownership / 0.2 page
Indexer Notes
Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1962. Average paid circulation for the previous 12 months was 247,461.
[no title indexed]
Monster Section / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've found a new speedy way to mix my witches brew!
- Characters
- Hilda the Witch
- Synopsis
- Hilda uses a cement mixer to mix her witches' brew.
- Keywords
- cement mixer; witches brew
Pain-in-the-Brain Machine
Professor Transistor / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Hilda the Witch (host); Professor Transistor; Joe; Janet
- Synopsis
- Joe and Janet, despite their previous misadventures with Professor Transistor's inventions, go to his laboratory to make Joe smart enough to pass his algebra exam. The Professor's brain machine raises his IQ from 90 to 9,000 and also increases the size of his head. Unfortunately the high intelligence turns out to be trouble and Joe returns to get the Professor to reverse the effect.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #261 (April 2010)
-
- Keywords
- chess; college; inventions; maze; mice; submarine sandwich; telepathy; telephone
Indexer Notes
In the opening panels, Joe and Janet discuss their troubles with a vitamin ray that made them four inches tall and a beauty lamp that made them invisible. However, the vitamin ray story from Archie's Mad House #21 featured Professor Sy Klops, not Professor Transistor.
Boris Karlaff's Photo Album
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Boris Karlaff; Bela Fangosi; King Kong; Invisible Man; Cat Girl
- Synopsis
- A photo album of monster actor Boris Karlaff and his actor friends.
- Reprints
- in The Best of Archie's Madhouse (IDW, 2011 series) (July 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Eskimos; movie-making
Indexer Notes
Boris Karlaff is a parody of Boris Karloff, who is caricatured in the first panel.
[no title indexed]
Mad House Hall of Fame / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Babs Chatterbox; Courtney Puffhardt; Taboo Hunter
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Babs Chatterbox; Courtney Puffhardt; Taboo Hunter
- Keywords
- actor; gossip; straw; teen monster
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Parody of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I get a kick out of these free earth movies!"]
-
1.
The Magazine With Walking Commercials
-
2.
["Lester, do you have any suggestions for improving this section?"]
The Teen-Age Section -
3.
Jinx Minx
Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch -
4.
Love Sick
Les 'n' Ches -
5.
["The night before exams!"]
It Just Seems That Way! -
6.
["Gee, Pinky - We don't have anywhere near this much snow on Earth!"]
Space Section -
7.
The Ray Caper or "The Truth Can Be Uncouth"
Captain Sprocket -
8.
Planet Hopping
The Pink Martian -
9.
Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1962
-
10.
["I've found a new speedy way to mix my witches brew!"]
Monster Section -
11.
Pain-in-the-Brain Machine
Professor Transistor -
12.
Boris Karlaff's Photo Album
-
13.
Riding a Wave of Popularity!
Betty and Veronica Summer Fun -
14.
["Babs Chatterbox; Courtney Puffhardt; Taboo Hunter"]
Mad House Hall of Fame -
15.
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