Laugh Comics
#353
(August 1980)
Archie,
1946 Series
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-06-03
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series; Archie Comics Group
- Barcode
- 0271000696208
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #180.
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now you know why it’s difficult to play close to the net!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie gets a painful tennis lesson.
- Keywords
- tennis
Monitor Mania
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley; Moose Mason; Hermione Lodge
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge installs a security camera in every room of the mansion and a central video monitor board in his den, and proceeds to drive everyone crazy by invading their privacy.
- Reprints
-
in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #66 (September 1986)
-
Flip Quip
Betty / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- George Gladir ?
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Jim DeCarlo ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy
- Synopsis
- Archie has the power to send Betty into record-setting gymnastic feats.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #70 (May 1987)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Great movie!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead go to the movies; Fred sleeps through the news.
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
These are reprints of two Archie syndicated newspaper strips.
Vacation Elation
Svenson / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Svenson the janitor; Mr. Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie, Betty and Jughead attempt to help Svenson clean up the school after the big end-of-term dance.
- Reprints
Machine Rage
Svenson / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Svenson the janitor
- Reprints
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #38 (1981)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #45 (December 1999)
-
Indexer Notes
Put the numbered letters into the corresponding numbered blanks to find out what Svenson thinks of the vending machine he has to fix.
Dear Diary
Mort / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Edwards
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Edwards (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Mort the worry wart; Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse; Gigi; Greg
- Synopsis
- Mort fills his diary with phony stories to make his life sound exciting. Jinx and Gigi find it, read it, and suddenly become attracted to the timid young man.
- Reprints
- in Archie Annual Digest (Archie, 1975 series) #49 (1986)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #95 (October 1997)
-
Growing Pains
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead have nothing better to do on a summer afternoon than heckle Betty and Veronica while the two girls work on their garden.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #250 (October 1976)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Now you know why it’s difficult to play close to the net!"]
Archie -
1.
Getting Noticed
Hostess Fruit Pies; Josie -
2.
Monitor Mania
Archie -
3.
Flip Quip
Betty -
4.
["Great movie!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
5.
Vacation Elation
Svenson -
6.
Machine Rage
Svenson -
7.
Dear Diary
Mort -
8.
Growing Pains
Betty and Veronica
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- Merlin Haas
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- Michael Hoskin
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