Wilbur Comics
#88
(September 1963)
Archie,
1944 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1963
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater ? (editor); Richard H. Goldwater ? (managing editor)
Issue Notes
Most of the stories in this issue are reprinted from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 Series) #80.
[no title indexed]
Wilbur / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hah! I thought you could read Laurie like a book?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Laurie Lake; Linda Moore; Wilbur Wilkin
Indexer Notes
This cover has the same script as the cover for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 Series) #81.
The Big Blow!
Wilbur / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Isn't that pose rather wasted on your old dad, Linda honey?
- Feature Logo
Wilbur- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alec; Laurie Lake; Linda Moore; Mr. Moore; Wilbur Wilkin
- Synopsis
- The guys ignore Linda in favor of her father's new state-of-the-art multimedia console, which includes TV, phonograph, and a radio that picks up any station anywhere. Linda turns the dial to a very obscure station, and the weather forecast convinces the guys that a blizzard is coming.
- Reprints
-
from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #80 (September 1958)
-
Indexer Notes
Includes indicia at bottom of first page.
Poor Butterfly
Wilbur / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bolo talked me into it! I'm now a student of lipidoptera!
- Feature Logo
- Wilbur
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alec; Linda Moore; Wilbur Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Wilbur goes out hunting with a butterfly net, but what he gets isn't a butterfly, but Linda's, er, posterior.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #80 (September 1958)
-
Heart's Desire
Wilbur / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good grief, Tiny! What's wrong? You look bluer than the toes of a barefooted well digger!
- Feature Logo
- Wilbur
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Bolo Brown; Dodo; Laurie Lake; Tiny; Wilbur Wilkin
- Synopsis
- The Big-Moose like Tiny hires the diminutive con artist Bolo to help him get to first base with the girl he likes, the bespectacled Dodo. But it turns out that Dodo actually carries a torch for Bolo, who turns the situation to his advantage.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #80 (September 1958)
-
Weather Profit
Wilbur / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the roof? What's he doing on the roof?
- Feature Logo
- Wilbur
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alec; Bolo Brown; Laurie Lake
- Synopsis
- By using a sarcastic tone, Bolo manages to con Alec while telling him nothing but the truth.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #80 (September 1958)
-
Blow the Man Down
Wilbur / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Mr. Moore! Taking it easy?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Linda Moore; Mr. Moore; Wilbur Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Wilbur tries to help Linda give a vacuum cleaner more power, and winds up turning it into a rocket that has Mr. Moore on the run.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #80 (September 1958)
-
Indexer Notes
The original appearance of this story has the second Wilbur logo, while this reprint mysteriously features the first logo.
Rally to the Alley Girls
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In 1917, forty bloomer-clad young ladies made up the Women's International Bowling Congress.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- A non-fiction article that discusses bowling fashions for women.
Wet Rain!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wheeee!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Greg; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx and Greg are in the pool when it starts raining.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #80 (September 1958)
-
Music for You
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Music is part of life, and has been since the earliest days of mankind.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- A non-fiction article about playing an instrument and music.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #73 (January 1962)
-
Wilbur's Poetry Corner
Wilbur / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A very romantic young mister
- Feature Logo
- Wilbur
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alec; Sheldon Broadbeam; Laurie Lake; Wilbur Wilkin; Miss Sturdley
Indexer Notes
Contains four funny limericks.
Frame of Mind
Wilbur / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Linda, what type of frame would you suggest for this picture of Wilbur?
- Feature Logo
- Wilbur
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Alec; Laurie Lake; Mr. Lake; Linda Moore; Wilbur Wilkin
- Synopsis
- A discussion between Linda and Alec makes Wilbur think that Laurie is trying to "frame" him for something she did.
- Reprints
- from Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #80 (September 1958)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hah! I thought you could read Laurie like a book?"]
Wilbur -
1.
["Give me just one evening and I'l teach you hypnotize easily!"]
Guide to Hypnotism -
2.
The Big Blow!
Wilbur -
3.
["Boys! Men! My secret new dynaflex method can build you a magnificent new he-man-muscled body in just ten minutes a day..."]
Mike Marvel Scientific Isometric Dynaflex System -
4.
Poor Butterfly
Wilbur -
5.
["Hatch your own live sea circus"]
Sea-Monkeys -
6.
["Amazing wrist radio"]
Honor House Products -
7.
Heart's Desire
Wilbur -
8.
Weather Profit
Wilbur -
9.
["The laugh of the party!"]
Archie Giant Series Magazine -
10.
Blow the Man Down
Wilbur -
11.
Rally to the Alley Girls
-
12.
["Throw your voice"]
Honor House Products -
13.
Wet Rain!
Li'l Jinx -
14.
Music for You
-
15.
["Reward $11,750.00 for this coin!"]
Best Values Coins and Currency -
16.
["New bike muffler only $1.98"]
Honor House Products -
17.
Wilbur's Poetry Corner
Wilbur -
18.
Frame of Mind
Wilbur -
19.
["Hello, Bob - have you found that underseas treasure?"]
Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve -
20.
["Now you can solve 'tough' math problems like this!"]
E-Z Math Program
This issue was modified by, among others
- Luke A.
- Steve Coates
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.