(August 1964)

Archie, 1949 Series
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Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Archie Comic Publications Inc.
Brand
Archie Series
Editing
?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Jughead / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Phew! Some of those TV commercials need that spray deodorant more than I do!
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Keywords
television; TV commercials

Woodman Spare That Tree (Table of Contents: 1)

Jughead / comic story / 5.7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
Samm Schwartz

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Ethel Muggs; Moose Mason
Synopsis
Jughead disguises himself as a tree to avoid Big Ethel. Moose happens to be chopping firewood for the bonfire pep rally and when he hits Jughead, Jughead runs down the street. Ethel is so impressed she decides Moose is the man for her. Meanwhile, Jughead switches disguises to a trash can.
Keywords
axe; disguise

Raffle Baffle (Table of Contents: 2)

Moose / comic story / 0.3 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
Samm Schwartz

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis
Archie is selling raffle tickets for a sick teacher. Moose says he doesn't want to win a sick teacher.
Keywords
raffle

Catastrophic Case (Table of Contents: 3)

Big Ethel / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
Samm Schwartz

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Ethel Muggs; Jane
Synopsis
Jane is crying because her boyfriend dropped her. Ethel can't even get a boyfriend who could drop her.
Keywords
boyfriend

Bye Bye Birdie! (Table of Contents: 4)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Joe Edwards
Pencils
Joe Edwards
Inks
Joe Edwards
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Edwards

Genre
humor; children
Characters
Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Synopsis
Li'l Jinx needs the post office to get her bird out of a mail box.
Keywords
mail box; parakeet

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Bendix Corporation / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
You called for a piano tuner?
Synopsis
A boy calls a piano tuner to help him fix all the cables on his bicycle. The piano tuner recommends replacing the cables with the Bendix automatic bike axle.

Indexer Notes

Ad in comic format for Bendix Automatic bicycle axles. The Bendix Corporation, Eclipse Machine Division, Elmira, N.Y. Art style is influenced by Peter Max.

Concerted Effort (Table of Contents: 6)

Jughead / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
Samm Schwartz

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate
Synopsis
Jughead pretends to be sweet on both Betty and Veronica and says he's going to the concert with both of them. Archie and Reggie insist they are taking the girls to the concert, which is exactly what the girls wanted in the first place.
Reprints
Keywords
hamburgers; jealousy

Subject: Atoms (Table of Contents: 7)

Jughead's Little Lectures / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Jughead Jones (as Professor Jughead)
Synopsis
Jughead concludes that people are like atoms, that when they are together, they work fine, but when they split up, it is explosive.
Keywords
atomic bomb; atoms; kissing

Here It Is! Your Archie Annual (Table of Contents: 8)

Archie Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot; Mary Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Fred Andrews; Midge Klump; Mr. Lodge

Indexer Notes

Promo for Archie Annual #16 with mail-in coupon. 25 cents for comic and free 1965 Archie Pin-Up calendar. Original art with parade theme.

The Scalper (Table of Contents: 9)

Jughead / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Doyle
Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
Samm Schwartz

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
Synopsis
Jughead is in trouble for eating in class and decides to wear a mop top wig into Mr. Weatherbee's office. Mr. Weatherbee doesn't say anything about it, so everyone in the school starts wearing them. Finally, he takes them all away and tries one on himself.
Reprints
Keywords
Beatle wig; fad

Indexer Notes

Writing credit from the reprinting in Archie & Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #27.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

The Adventures of Patty & Andy, The Popsicle Twins; Popsicle / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jack Sparling
Inks
Jack Sparling
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Say Andy, it says on TV we can win a trip by Trailways "Silver Eagle" to the N. Y. World's Fair.
Characters
Popsicle Twins [Patty; Andy]
Synopsis
The twins enter the Popsicle Safety Contest to try to win a trip to the New York World's Fair.

Indexer Notes

Ad in comic format for Popsicle frozen treats with mail-in coupon to send for an entry blank for the contest.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

First prize of $5.00 to Michael Comeaux (Lafayette, La.) for article on animal worship. Second prize to Alma Wong (San Francisco, Calif.) for a story about women's hats. Third prize of $2.00 to Kristy Walker (Austin, Texas) for article describing how much one billion is.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Archie Andrews (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Promo for memberships in the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 15 cents.

The Abraca-Dabbler (Table of Contents: 13)

Jughead / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Doyle
Pencils
Samm Schwartz
Inks
Samm Schwartz
Colors
?
Letters
Vincent DeCarlo

Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate
Synopsis
Jughead has everyone convinced he made Archie disappear, when Archie wasn't there in the first place. His final trick is making burgers disappear.
Reprints
Keywords
half-dollar; hamburger; magic; sleight of hand

Indexer Notes

Writer and letterer credits from the reprint in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #22.

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Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Phew! Some of those TV commercials need that spray deodorant more than I do!"]
    Jughead
  2. 1. Woodman Spare That Tree
    Jughead
  3. 2. Raffle Baffle
    Moose
  4. 3. Catastrophic Case
    Big Ethel
  5. 4. Bye Bye Birdie!
    Li'l Jinx
  6. 5. ["You called for a piano tuner?"]
    Bendix Corporation
  7. 6. Concerted Effort
    Jughead
  8. 7. Subject: Atoms
    Jughead's Little Lectures
  9. 8. Here It Is! Your Archie Annual
    Archie Annual
  10. 9. The Scalper
    Jughead
  11. 10. ["Say Andy, it says on TV we can win a trip by Trailways "Silver Eagle" to the N. Y. World's Fair."]
    The Adventures of Patty & Andy, The Popsicle Twins; Popsicle
  12. 11. [no title indexed]
    Archie Club News
  13. 12. [no title indexed]
    Archie Club
  14. 13. The Abraca-Dabbler
    Jughead
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Merlin Haas
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Matthew Thompson