Reggie #18
(November 1965)

Archie, 1963 Series
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Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Close-Up, Inc.
Brand
Archie Series
Editing
?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Reggie / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob White ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I can't figure out why Archie is so popular!
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Keywords
beach; lovers' hearts

Indexer Notes

Redrawn, with a new setting, from the cover of Archie's Rival Reggie #11

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Poise Will Be Poise (Table of Contents: 1)

Reggie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Dan DeCarlo
Inks
Rudy Lapick
Colors
?
Letters
Vincent DeCarlo
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Miss Grundy
Synopsis
Reggie, with Betty's complicity, plays a series of dirty tricks on Archie to make it look to Veronica like he has no grace and poise.
Reprints
Keywords
oil; puns; water fountain; wax

A Tough Walk! (Table of Contents: 2)

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
Synopsis
Jinx isn't afraid of the biggest bully on the block, because she's walking the biggest dog on the block.
Reprints
Keywords
bully; dog

Service with a Smile (Table of Contents: 3)

Reggie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Synopsis
Reggie demands that Jughead serve up the last scoops of ice cream in a deep vat.
Reprints
Keywords
ice cream

Imagination (Table of Contents: 4)

Reggie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Jim Ruth
Pencils
Bill Vigoda
Inks
Bill Vigoda
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Vigoda
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis
Archie thinks it's possible to project his imagination. Reggie makes a weird costume for a young boy and pays him to walk by Archie so that Archie will think that he projected an image. Jughead steps in to double-cross Reggie.
Reprints
Keywords
imagination; practical joke

Indexer Notes

Credits from the reprint in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #26.

The World of Jughead Is a World of Laughs (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

The World of Jughead / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Bound to Agree (Table of Contents: 6)

Reggie / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill Vigoda ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Synopsis
Archie needs to borrow $5 so he can date Veronica. Reggie will lend the money, but first Archie must sign an agreement that he can't ask her for a date until he pays the money back. Reggie presses his luck too far when he tells Veronica that Archie is waiting for her to ask him to the dance.
Reprints
Keywords
bondage; loan; rope; telephone

The Ego and I (Table of Contents: 7)

Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill Vigoda
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
Synopsis
Betty tells Reggie that he's self-centered and boastful.
Reprints
Keywords
conceit

Sore Winner (Table of Contents: 8)

Reggie / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill Vigoda
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
Synopsis
Reggie asks a waiter if he's willing to flip a coin for his tip--double or nothing.
Reprints
Keywords
coin flip; tip

Mastodon (Table of Contents: 9)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction; history
Synopsis
Profile of the Mastodon
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Text with 1/3 page illustration.

The Old Bawl Game (Table of Contents: 10)

Reggie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Doyle
Pencils
Harry Lucey
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; teen
Characters
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis
Archie tells Betty that he doesn't like women crying. Since Veronica is home sick with a cold, Reggie and Betty come up with a scheme to have Veronica crying when Archie comes to visit.
Reprints
Keywords
crying; hamburgers; onions; vaporizer
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["I can't figure out why Archie is so popular!"]
    Reggie
  2. 1. Poise Will Be Poise
    Reggie
  3. 2. A Tough Walk!
    Li'l Jinx
  4. 3. Service with a Smile
    Reggie
  5. 4. Imagination
    Reggie
  6. 5. The World of Jughead Is a World of Laughs
    The World of Jughead
  7. 6. Bound to Agree
    Reggie
  8. 7. The Ego and I
    Reggie
  9. 8. Sore Winner
    Reggie
  10. 9. Mastodon
  11. 10. The Old Bawl Game
    Reggie
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