(August 1965)
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
- 1965-06-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- John Goldwater (editor); Richard Goldwater (managing editor)
[no title indexed]
Captain Sprocket / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (cartoon); Dan DeCarlo (border)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (cartoon); ? (border)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz (cartoon); ? (border)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sprocket, you two-timer! What's this long blue hair doing on your shoulder?
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Clyde Didit
- Keywords
- spaceship
Special Wig-Flipping Issue!
Mad House / table of contents / 1 page
- Synopsis
- List of stories and features to be found in this issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Previously credited to Orlando Busino.
Cowboy Heroes Always Wear White Hats
Good Guy Section / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket
- Synopsis
- Cowboy heroes wear white hats and jungle heroes wear leopard skin suits, but Mad House heroes wear silly grins.
Market Marauder Part 2
Super Disguise / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- Super Disguise; Super Market Man
- Synopsis
- Facing a forced resignation from the Union of Super Heroes, Super Disguise disguises himself as a sheet of trading stamps in an attempt to apprehend Super Market Man.
- Reprints
-
in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #4 (1978 - 1979)
-
Indexer Notes
Previously credited to Orlando Busino. P&A Supermarket is a parody of A&P.
Ups 'n' Downs
Ali Bubu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ali Bubu
- Synopsis
- When Ali Babu's magic carpet runs out of gas, he uses it as a parachute and floats to the ground.
- Reprints
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #8 (1970-71) which is reprinted
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #3 (1977-78)
-
- Keywords
- flying carpet; magic carpet
Super Blooper
Captain Sprocket / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Cobra; Lady Sprocket; Gladys
- Synopsis
- Captain Sprocket is too much of a gentleman to capture a lady crook, so he advertises for a female assistant.
- Reprints
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #4 (1978 - 1979)
-
Indexer Notes
Previously credited to Chic Stone.
Just What the Mad Doctor Ordered!
Archie's Mad House Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Wanted for Murder of Good Taste
Bad Guy Section / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Super Rat Fink; Captain Shark
- Synopsis
- Introduction to the Bad Guy Section in the form of a wanted poster.
Double Trouble
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Kola; Hokar
- Synopsis
- Two Saturnians go on a mission to explore Earth, but find little in value to bring home with them.
- Reprints
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #4 (1978 - 1979)
-
Everything Happens in Transylvania
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Three Transylvania-themed cartoons: a woman paints a mustache onto a painting of a woman; two women wear hats in a theater; Transylvania children are cleaned.
- Reprints
- in Madhouse Comics Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #7 (1981-1982)
-
The Detergent Monster
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Poindexter; The Detergent Monster
- Synopsis
- Two scientists making detergent for the Agaxo Soap Laboratory accidentally create a detergent monster with the power to turn anything white.
- Reprints
- in Mad House Annual (Archie, 1970 series) #8 (1970-71)
-
Spray Spree
A Mad House Maddy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man hunting a bug with bug spray is being hunted by a bigger bug.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Jungle Bungle
A Mad House Maddy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- One man warns another about native witch doctors.
- Keywords
- witch doctor
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Sprocket, you two-timer! What's this long blue hair doing on your shoulder?"]
Captain Sprocket -
1.
Special Wig-Flipping Issue!
Mad House -
2.
Cowboy Heroes Always Wear White Hats
Good Guy Section -
3.
Market Marauder Part 2
Super Disguise -
4.
Ups 'n' Downs
Ali Bubu -
5.
Super Blooper
Captain Sprocket -
6.
Just What the Mad Doctor Ordered!
Archie's Mad House Annual -
7.
Wanted for Murder of Good Taste
Bad Guy Section -
8.
Double Trouble
-
9.
Everything Happens in Transylvania
-
10.
The Detergent Monster
-
11.
Archie's Jokes #33 Is It!
Archie's Jokes -
12.
Spray Spree
A Mad House Maddy -
13.
Jungle Bungle
A Mad House Maddy -
14.
Here Comes Summer Fun #34
Betty and Veronica Summer Fun
This issue was modified by, among others
- Luke A.
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
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