(January 1970)
Archie,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- That Wilkin Boy Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series Goes 'Bingo'
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
[no title indexed]
That Wilkin Boy / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tough Teddy is making the chicks scream much louder than I did!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- The Bingoes: Buddy Drumhead; Tough Teddy; Bingo Wilkin
Rebel; Samantha Smythe
Record Release
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come on, Samantha! The Bingoes are splitting a gig at Harvey's Headache! With the Greasy Sneakers!
- Feature Logo
That Wilkin Boy- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- The Bingoes: Buddy Drumhead; Samantha Smythe; Tough Teddy; Bingo Wilkin
Mrs. Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Harvey; Fenwick - Synopsis
- The Bingoes play a gig at Harvey's Headache, a discotheque that got its name because the owner can't stand the music.
Indexer Notes
Teddy drives the kids out of the discotheque by putting on "The bubbling music of Lawrence Whelfe," a reference to easy-listening music star Lawrence Welk.
Includes indicia at bottom of first page.
Bingo Tells It Like It Is!
letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Eda Edwards (credited as Bingo)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I have a girl friend who I think is the greatest, but we have a problem!
- Characters
- Buddy Drumhead; Samantha Smythe; Bingo Wilkin; Willie Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Advice to readers from the star of the comic, Bingo.
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from N.P. (Hanamaulu, Kauai, Hawaii), B.M. (Darlington, S.C.), and H.T. (Sacramento, Calif.).
First of two Bingo Tells It Like It Is! letter columns in this issue.
Quick Quiz!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What are you doing, Li'l Jinx?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Hap Holliday; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx does her homework.
- Reprints
-
in Li'l Jinx Giant Laughout (Archie, 1971 series) #38 (October 1972)
-
Special Delivery
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Samantha! What's...
- Feature Logo
- That Wilkin Boy
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Rebel; Samantha Smythe; Bingo Wilkin; Willie Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Samantha asks Bingo to accept delivery of a package that she doesn't want her father to see.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Includes a promotional blurb for The Archie Comedy Hour Saturday morning television show on CBS TV on bottom of first page.
As Luck Will Have It
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oooh, she's a monument of marble in the graveyard of my heart, --- But the weeds are growing higher every year!
- Feature Logo
- That Wilkin Boy
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Smythe; Rebel; Samantha Smythe; Tough Teddy; Bingo Wilkin; Willie Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Teddy convinces Bingo that one of the trinkets he's wearing is actually a cursed Egyptian scarab.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #8 (January 1977)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes promotional blurb for Archie Series Comics on bottom of first page.
Bingo Tells It Like It Is!
letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Eda Edwards (credited as Bingo)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Everytime I do something I wind up at the losing end!
- Characters
- Bingo Wilkin
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from C.G. (West Grove, Pa.), A.N., (Boston, Mass.) and M.S. (Turrell, Arkansas).
Second of two Bingo Tells It Like It Is! letter columns in this issue.
The Magic Square
That Wilkin Boy / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That's my final word, Sam! No daughter of mine is going to associate with one of those hairy, unwashed, hip shaking, bead rattling, outlandish costumed hippies!!
- Feature Logo
- That Wilkin Boy
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Buddy Drumhead; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Tough Teddy; Bingo Wilkin; Willie Wilkin; Wilma Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Mr. Smythe and Mr. Wilkin get Bingo out of his hippie garb and into more conservative clothes. Then Bingo finds out what Mr Smythe wears when he attends a meeting of his Lodge.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #8 (January 1977)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Tough Teddy is making the chicks scream much louder than I did!"]
That Wilkin Boy -
1.
["'Sorry, we hire only high school graduates'"]
Wayne School Courses -
2.
Record Release
That Wilkin Boy -
3.
["Get free Archie toys"]
Archie; Post Cereals -
4.
Bingo Tells It Like It Is!
-
5.
Quick Quiz!
Li'l Jinx -
6.
["Become a 'Miss Young America Beauty Girl' (...and never baby-sit again)"]
Young America Cosmetics, Inc -
7.
Special Delivery
That Wilkin Boy -
8.
["Archie giant size freakout"]
Archie Comics -
9.
As Luck Will Have It
That Wilkin Boy -
10.
["Go Speedy Wheels!"]
Chex -
11.
Bingo Tells It Like It Is!
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12.
["50th anniversary special bonus offer"]
Pro-Football Merchandising, Inc. -
13.
The Magic Square
That Wilkin Boy -
14.
["You'll find one of these catalogs priceless"]
ICS / International Correspondence Schools -
15.
["Make money get prizes with fast selling 75¢ Christmas packs"]
American Specialty Company Christmas Cards & Seals
This issue was modified by, among others
- Merlin Haas
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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