Laugh Comics
#178
(January 1966)
Archie,
1946 Series
- 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
- John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (managing editor)
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Not so fast, James!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Naturally Veronica can't race model cars like common people do.
The Traitor
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Veronica snubs Archie on an anniversary to date Reggie. But circumstances give him a chance to get even.
- Reprints
-
in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #26 (May 1978) - in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #3 (January 1994)
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Indexer Notes
Archie's anniversary is of the day he got his driver's license and the dialogue intimates that it's an anniversary he and Veronica have celebrated multiple times. So if Archie is vaguely sixteen to seventeen, what exactly is the age a person can get a driver's license in Riverdale?
[Incognito]
Veronica Pin Up Page / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie catches Veronica with another guy and she can't understand how he found her.
Indexer Notes
The handsome guy with Veronica is named Richard, possibly after editor Richard Goldwater as a joke.
Matching Socks 'N' Tops
Betty's Fashions / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- fashion
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
Monsieur Archie
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- To practice for his French class at school, Archie vows to speak only in French for the entire day.
Candid Confessions
Betty / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty outlines what kind of girl she is.
Sting Rays
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4.33 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg; Hap Holiday
- Synopsis
- Frustrated when their parents won't buy them sting ray style bikes, Jinx and the other kids decide to form a rock band like The Beatles in order to make money like The Beatles do.
- Reprints
- in Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #7 (August 1978)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #36 (October 1998), #130 (June 2009)
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Pool Fool
Archie and the Gang / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- The boys have an adventuresome game of billiards with the girls.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #29 (April 1978)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Not so fast, James!"]
Archie -
1.
The Traitor
Archie -
2.
[Incognito]
Veronica Pin Up Page -
3.
Matching Socks 'N' Tops
Betty's Fashions -
4.
["Dig This, Gang"]
Archie; Bendix -
5.
Monsieur Archie
Archie -
6.
Candid Confessions
Betty -
7.
Sting Rays
Li'l Jinx -
8.
Pool Fool
Archie and the Gang
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- Igor Dybzinski
- Merlin Haas
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