Laugh Comics
#148
(July 1963)
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
Boys Will Be Boys!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica is upset because Archie thinks she dresses too sophisticated to fit in with his life. She sees her chance to rectify this when he invites her to a car race.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- slot cars
Indexer Notes
Writing credit from the reprint in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #26.
Billy Wins with Bendix
Bendix Corporation / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Billy wins the bike races because he has a Bendix automatic transmission and power brake axle.
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Bendix bicycle automatic transmission and power brakes. Bendix Corporation, Eclipse Machine Division, Elmira, N.Y.
The Decoys
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge buys a priceless antique cup and has three exact duplicates made, figuring that Archie will smash one of the duplicates, making it safe to display the real one.
- Reprints
-
in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #4 (March 1978) - in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #15 (March 1985)
-
- Keywords
- antiques; wall safe
Order This! Get This Free!
Archie Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
Promo for Archie Annual #15 with mail-in coupon. Cost is 25 cents for comic and free 1964 Archie Pin-Up Calendar. Cover is depicted, along with original art.
Take Your Pick!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4.33 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Greg
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx asks for the right to pick her own birthday present.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- birthday present
[no title indexed]
Li'l Jinx Pen Pals / text article / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's fun to get mail from new and exciting pals...
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Listing of 44 persons (ages 7 to 16) desiring pen pals. In addition to the United States, Nauru Island, Australia, New Zealand, Syria, England, Pakistan, and Panama are represented.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages
Indexer Notes
First prize of $5.00 to Wendy Ostrensky (Creston, B. C., Canada) for article on candy. Second prize of $3.00 to Michael Seidenstricker (Pittsburgh, Pa.) for article on "Uncle Sam." Third prize of $2.00 to Michael Molakoff (Huntington, N.Y.) for article on helicopters. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Lisa Brooks (New York, N.Y.) for two jokes.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Promo for joining the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 15 cents.
Announcing the "Popsicle" Safety Awards!
Popsicle Kids; Popsicle / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Popsicle Kids
Indexer Notes
Ad in comic format for Popsicle Safety Awards contest.
Cover Girl!
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Sock; Alexander Cabot III
- Synopsis
- It's such a scorching hot day that the boys don't pay any attention to Josie and Pepper. Melody has the opposite problem: she has to keep completely covered up or the boys will pay too much attention to her.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #13 (November 1977)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #36 (September 1988)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #50 (July 2015)
-
- Keywords
- coat; heat wave
-
0.
["Everywhere I go my Cleopatra hair-do attracts wolf whistles!"]
Archie -
1.
Boys Will Be Boys!
Archie -
2.
Billy Wins with Bendix
Bendix Corporation -
3.
The Luggage Caper!
Archie -
4.
The Decoys
Archie -
5.
Order This! Get This Free!
Archie Annual -
6.
Take Your Pick!
Li'l Jinx -
7.
["It's fun to get mail from new and exciting pals..."]
Li'l Jinx Pen Pals -
8.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
9.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club -
10.
Announcing the "Popsicle" Safety Awards!
Popsicle Kids; Popsicle -
11.
Cover Girl!
Josie
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Jaime Weinman
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