Laugh Comics
#214
(January 1969)
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
- You say your class is the country's fifty-first state?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
All In the Mind
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What are you working on now, Dilton?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Dilton invents a spray that grants people temporary telepathy. But Riverdale High is not ready for this much truth.
The Jughead
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Jeff Barry; ?
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do the Jug-head
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
Indexer Notes
Jughead dances alongside the lyrics to the song "The Jughead Shuffle", from the "Archie" animated television series. Plus, exhortations to readers to watch the Archie show and to buy the Archies' records.
[no title indexed]
Betty Pin Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! Hey Jug...did you see the outfit Chief Betty Bullseye is wearing?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty's dressed like a Native American and she's got an arrow for anyone who laughs at her.
The Tryout
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Not me, Jug! I don't want to get murdered!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- Archie feigns a knee injury to get out of trying out for the football team. But his excuse only makes trouble for him so he tries out anyway.
- Reprints
-
in Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #30 (December 1973) - in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #63 (December 1983)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #18 (September 1985)
-
[no title indexed]
Veronica Pin Up Page / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't get it, Veronica...You say you like my hair, you like my moustache...
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Charlie
- Synopsis
- Veronica shoots down another prospective suitor.
- Reprints
- in Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #13 (April 1971)
-
The Remind-Her
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gulp!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Gigi; Greg; Hap Holliday; Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- An overdue library book starts Jinx on an entrepreneurial enterprise.
- Reprints
- in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #195 (January 1972)
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Annual Magazine (Archie, 1979 series) #10 (1982)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #81 (February 2004)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #268 (April 2019)
-
[no title indexed]
Li'l Jinx Pen Pals / letters page / 0.67 page
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
Indexer Notes
Names, ages, and addresses of kids who want to be pen pals.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News / letters page / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Letters from Melanie Hart (1st prize), Debbie P. Reyes (2nd prize), Debbie Miraglia (3rd prize), Maureen McQuillan (4th prize), and Lynn Fuju (5th prize), plus instructions for joining the Archie Club.
Something Special
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Are you still having trouble with your stereo radio set, Daddy?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge invests in a special antenna to improve radio reception in the mansion. But he neglects to Archie-proof it.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #82 (December 1973)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #196 (April 2003)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Blow-Out (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #49 (June 2015)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #328 (May 2022)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["You say your class is the country's fifty-first state?"]
Archie -
1.
All In the Mind
Archie -
2.
The Jughead
-
3.
["Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! Hey Jug...did you see the outfit Chief Betty Bullseye is wearing?"]
Betty Pin Up -
4.
The Tryout
Archie -
5.
["I don't get it, Veronica...You say you like my hair, you like my moustache..."]
Veronica Pin Up Page -
6.
The Remind-Her
Li'l Jinx -
7.
[no title indexed]
Li'l Jinx Pen Pals -
8.
[no title indexed]
Archie Club News -
9.
Something Special
Archie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Joey Beretta
- Igor Dybzinski
- Merlin Haas
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Joey Sayer
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