(October 1977)
Archie,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- twice a year
- On-sale Date
- 1977-07-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Barcode
- 0271000697310
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #146.
[no title indexed]
Josie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Josie, don't you ever watch your calories?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alan M.; Valerie Brown; Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine
- Reprints
- Keywords
- ice cream sundae
Get the Drift
Josie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Valerie Smith; Alan M; Alex Cabot III
- Synopsis
- Valerie reminds Josie of the 3 M's of a perfect canoe ride: moon, music, and man. Alan's guitar is broken so he shows up with a tuba. Alex then promises Josie a night of romance and brings a ukelele.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- canoe; date; romance; tape recorder
A Lame Excuse
Greg / comic story / 1 page
Ade to the Poor
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (credited)
- Inks
- Jim DeCarlo (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alexander Cabot III; Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine; Tommy; Bruce (Alex's cousin)
- Synopsis
- Alex's cousin Bruce starts an elaborate lemonade stand to put Tommy's stand out of business. Josie enlists Melody to sell lemonade at Tommy's stand and the crowds flock to her.
- Reprints
-
in Josie (Editions Héritage, 1974 series) #28 (1978) -
in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #142 (July 1998) - in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #76 (August 2003), #122 (August 2008)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #250 (September 2016)
- in World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2021 series) #17
-
- Keywords
- lemonade stand
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #250.
[no title indexed]
Melody Pin Up / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Melody, you bought all I asked for except the flypaper!
- Characters
- Melody Valentine; Melody's mother
- Reprints
- in Josie and the Pussycats (Archie, 1993 series) #2 (Spring 1994)
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #199 (January 2010)
- in World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2021 series) #18 (August 2022)
-
- Keywords
- grocery shopping
Foot Sore
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Alan M; Valerie Smith
- Synopsis
- Josie can't keep up with Alan M's exercise regimen and hopes that he will do something less strenuous on their date.
- Reprints
- in Josie (Editions Héritage, 1974 series) #28 (1978)
- in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #58 (October 1988)
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #195 (August 2009)
- in World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2021 series) #6
-
- Keywords
- exercise; health; skate; skating; walking
[no title indexed]
Josie Pin Up / illustration / 1 page
Scratch One Clown
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alan M.; Valerie Brown; Alexander Cabot III; Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine
- Synopsis
- Alexander spends all of his time at the class picnic playing pranks on everyone else.
- Reprints
- in Josie (Editions Héritage, 1974 series) #28 (1978)
- in Archie's TV Laugh-Out (Archie, 1969 series) #86 (August 1982)
- in Archie's Story & Game Digest Magazine (Archie, 1986 series) #8 (September 1988)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #36 (October 1998), #105 (October 2006)
- in The Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2011 series) #3 ([August] 2013)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #235 (September 2013)
- in World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2021 series) #5 (July 2021)
-
- Keywords
- egg race; picnic; pie eating contest; pie in face; poison ivy; three legged race
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Josie, don't you ever watch your calories?"]
Josie -
1.
Get the Drift
Josie -
2.
["Shut My Mouth"]
Archie -
3.
A Lame Excuse
Greg -
4.
Ade to the Poor
Josie -
5.
["Melody, you bought all I asked for except the flypaper!"]
Melody Pin Up -
6.
Foot Sore
Josie -
7.
Dear Josie
Dear Josie -
8.
["Josie, last night I dreamed I ate a giant marshmallow!!"]
Josie Pin Up -
9.
Scratch One Clown
Josie
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