Archie Annual
#22
(1970-71)
Archie,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 64
- Indicia Frequency
- annually
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Giant Series
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (managing editor)
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come back later, Pop!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie laments spending all of his allowance on entertaining Betty and Veronica.
Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the covers of Archie Comics Digest #29 and Archie Comics Digest #61.
The Brighter Side
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie gets ten dollars for a good report card, but circumstances eat it away before he can blow it on Veronica.
Test Case
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Dilton Doiley; R.N. Iris Swab; Miss Fondue; Svenson the janitor; Miss Beazley
- Synopsis
- Tiring of students with imaginary illnesses designed to get them out of tests, Nurse Swab decides to go off on the next student with a fake excuse, and that student happens to be Archie.
Indexer Notes
Bob Bolling draws Svenson with black hair and mustache, rather than the usual balding and white mustache.
High Finance
The Archies / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils
- Bob White
- Inks
- Mario Acquaviva
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Mario Acquaviva
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- The Archies [Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones]; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Pop Tate; Professor Gasworth (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Archies team up to stop Professor Gasworth from using his anti-gravity gas from robbing the Riverdale Bank, building and all.
Indexer Notes
A throwback to the late '60s stories where the Archies consisted of only three members and were involved in surreal Monkees-style adventures, this may be an unused or reprinted story from that era.
Pic Sick
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Edwards
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- In the art gallery, Jinx finds a picture that sickens her.
Call Me Irreplaceable
Coach Kleats / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle
- Pencils
- Bob White
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats; unnamed bodybuilder; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- The administration contemplates replacing Coach Kleats with an egotistical bodybuilder because he projects a more healthy image.
The Painting
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Silverdore Dilly
- Synopsis
- Jealous of the attention Archie gives Betty over her landscape painting skill, Veronica invites him to the mansion to look at her paintings, then hires a professional painter to teach her how.
I Dig That
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Edwards
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday
- Synopsis
- Jinx is unimpressed with the latest scientific discovery.
Search For A Bivalve Retreat
Jughead / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Girtha Gooseby; Ethel Muggs
- Synopsis
- Archie sells his share of an oyster boat, forcing Jughead to look for a legendary lost oyster bed with Girtha Gooseby. And when Ethel hears that Jughead is on a boat alone with another woman, she decides to inject herself into the situation.
Indexer Notes
The freighter Jughead and Ethel almost collide with is "The Pride of Walvis Bay," the boat that Mad Doctor Doom and Chester work on in Bolling's Little Archie stories.
Honest Tee
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie accidentally breaks one of Mr. Lodge's golf clubs and Veronica tries to take the blame for it.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
["Come back later, Pop!"]
Archie -
1.
The Brighter Side
Archie -
2.
Test Case
Archie -
3.
High Finance
The Archies -
4.
Pic Sick
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Call Me Irreplaceable
Coach Kleats -
6.
The Painting
Archie -
7.
I Dig That
Li'l Jinx -
8.
Search For A Bivalve Retreat
Jughead -
9.
Honest Tee
Archie
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