Archie & Friends
#53
[Direct Edition]
(January 2002)
Archie,
1992 Series
- Price
- 1.99 USD; 2.39 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 8 times per year
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 762816469654 05311
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Rock 'n' Roar!
Josie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly (signed as Holly G!)
- Inks
- Holly Golightly (signed as Holly G!)
- Colors
- Holly Golightly ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine; Valerie Brown
- Synopsis
- The Pussycats pose with an albino Bengal tiger.
![Cover Thumbnail for Archie & Friends (Archie, 1992 series) #53 [Direct Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/219/w200/219447.jpg?-3299834572067799339)
Bad News Boys
Josie / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Holly Golightly
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly
- Inks
- John Costanza
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine; Valerie Brown; Gwen Lee; Tabetha Sorendin; Donny; Justin; Drew
- Synopsis
- The Pussycats agree to perform in a benefit concert for an animal protection group. However, a rival band plots to sabotage the group in order to improve their visibility.
- Reprints
Cat-rageous Fashions!
Josie / illustration / 1 page
- Feature Logo
- Josie and the Pussycats
- Genre
- fashion; teen
- Characters
- Josie McCoy; Valerie Brown; Melody Valentine
[no title indexed]
Archie & Friends Scrapbook / letters page / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
art and letters submitted by Courtney Fridley; Paula Flores; Shana Clark; Karly Witiw
Check Mutt!
Hot Dog / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Hot Dog; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- The gang find Jughead playing chess with Hot Dog.
A Cat's Tale
Nancy / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly (credited as Holly G!)
- Inks
- John Costanza
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Nancy Woods; Pumpkin (Nancy's cat)
- Synopsis
- Nancy tries to do her homework, but her cat Pumpkin won't leave her alone.
- Reprints
-
in Tales from Riverdale Digest (Archie, 2005 series) #24 (December 2007) - in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jamboree (Archie, 2013 series) (2013)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #236 (December 2013), #274 (November 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in B&V Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #236, writing and art (including inks) are credited to Holly Golightly.
Oh, What a Knight
Archie & Friends / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Golliher
- Pencils
- Holly Golightly (credited as Holly G!)
- Inks
- John Costanza
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Archie and the gang attend a Renaissance fair in full period costume. Once there, Archie gets mistaken for an actor and is thrust into a joust with a mechanical dragon.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Rock 'n' Roar!
Josie -
1.
Bad News Boys
Josie -
2.
Cat-rageous Fashions!
Josie -
3.
[no title indexed]
Editor's Notebook -
4.
[no title indexed]
Archie & Friends Scrapbook -
5.
Check Mutt!
Hot Dog -
6.
A Cat's Tale
Nancy -
7.
Oh, What a Knight
Archie & Friends
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Igor Dybzinski
- Thomas Johnson
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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