Archie
#442
[Newsstand]
(December 1995)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 071896467475 12
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #442 [Direct Edition].
House of Riverdale, Part One
Archie / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; unnamed contractor; unnamed police officer
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to prevent an old house from being leveled.
Indexer Notes
This cover, when joined with the covers from Betty and Veronica #95 and Jughead #76, form a single poster-sized picture.
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House of Riverdale, Part 1
Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Councilman Gile; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Officer Blunt; Reggie Mantle; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Father Riverdale (dream only); Dilton Doiley; Moose Mason; Sabrina Spellman; Aunt Hilda; Aunt Zelda
- Synopsis
- Archie works like a man possessed to save an old house, dating back to the founding of Riverdale, from being demolished.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This story continues in Betty And Veronica (Archie, 1987 series) #95.
Home Improvement
Veronica / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Hiram Lodge; Della
- Synopsis
- Veronica convinces her father to add a wheelchair ramp to the mansion's front landing.
Indexer Notes
Ad co-sponsored by United Cerebral Palsy Associations.
I Won't Stand for Sitting
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Angelo De Cesare
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Candice; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Chuck Clayton; Nancy Woods
- Synopsis
- When the Andrews’ have to go out of town, they hire a female bodybuilder to watch Archie.
- Reprints
-
in Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala (Archie, 2015 series) (2015) - in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #16 (December 2015)
- in Archie Comics Spectacular Block Party (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #333 (October 2022)
-
Fight Delight
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie overdoses on fights from watching daytime television.
- Reprints
- in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #31 (November 2013)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #303 (December 2019)
-
It's a Toss-Up!
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Rich Koslowski
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- The girls question the necessity of the boys having to throw everything at each other, rather than exchange it in a civilized manner.
- Reprints
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #137 (December 2005)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #229 (November 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits changed to confirm with credits printed in B&V Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #229.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
House of Riverdale, Part One
Archie -
1.
House of Riverdale, Part 1
Archie -
2.
Toe Stop Twist
Seneca Sports; Betty and Veronica -
3.
Home Improvement
Veronica -
4.
["Last year Archie made..."]
Editor's Notebook -
5.
I Won't Stand for Sitting
Archie -
6.
Fight Delight
Archie -
7.
It's a Toss-Up!
Archie
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- Thomas Johnson
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