Archie Comics Digest
#41
[Newsstand]
(April 1980)
Archie,
1973 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Barcode
- 0271000699404
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Arch, I understand conditions here are excellent for skiers!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Indexer Notes
Redrawn from the cover of Archie #216
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Stars and Gripes
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie wins a contest by Slimy Soap which entitles him to a date with a movie star. When he thinks the movie star is really old, he tricks Jughead into taking his place.
- Reprints
-
from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #11 (1959-1960)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Your mother wants to learn how to drive, Archie!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie's dad is telling Archie that his mom wants to learn to drive.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
Air Today - Gone Tomorrow!
Jughead / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie and the gang visit Hiram's aircraft factory where he is demonstrating a new jet plane for the military.
- Reprints
So's Your Aunt Mathilda
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Betty writes into an advice column to find out how to get her hunky new neighbor to notice her.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #11 (1959-1960)
-
[no title indexed]
Veronica Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Each passing year brings it a bit closer!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Hiram thinks each year is one year closer to when he can't use Veronica as a tax deduction.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
Putting on the Dog!
Archie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie and Veronica try to meet the rich family from the next town who are even richer than the Lodges.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #8 ([January] 1960)
-
Letter Quiz
Archie and the Gang / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- All the questions can be answered with letters of the alphabet.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #177 (October 1972)
-
[no title indexed]
Jughead's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Phew! Jogging is sure some conditioner!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead out jogging.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
Spanks for the Advice
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Leroy (Veronica's cousin)
- Synopsis
- Archie is babysitting Veronica's little cousin Leroy, who everybody believes needs a good spanking.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #10 (1958-59)
-
Just an Idea
Reggie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy
- Synopsis
- Reggie tries to come up with a new way to clean erasers.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #10 (1958-59)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's bugging you, Ronnie?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica is troubled by her split-ends.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
Sailor Beware!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- The gang wants to go to a moonlight sail but they can't afford it, except for Jughead.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #10 (1958-59)
-
Clothes Call
Jughead / comic story / 2.67 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie needs to find a fancy suit for his party with Veronica. Jughead offers to help.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
Indexer Notes
Average copies preceding 12 months: 258,288.
Issue nearest filing date: 256,368.
[no title indexed]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Miss Phlips, what happened to my newspaper?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Phlips; Miss Beazley
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee can't find his newspaper.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
The Kiss-Off
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot
- Synopsis
- Betty has won a prize of ten kisses from Archie, which she can collect one at a time at any time she wants. Every time she collects a kiss, she turns into a drooling moron, so that some of her teachers think she's smart and others think she's stupid. This complicates matters when she's selected to represent Riverdale High in an inter-school debate.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #8 ([January] 1960)
-
Indexer Notes
This reprint deleted Mr. Weatherbee's line "Professor Flutesnoot has been sniffing too many chemicals."
Handball Happy
Archie / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy
- Synopsis
- Archie and Reggie get caught playing handball against the building, first by Mr. Weatherbee then by Miss Grundy.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #10 (1958-59)
-
[no title indexed]
Betty's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hear Betty is trying to start a girls' football team!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Miss Beazly
- Synopsis
- Has Betty taken up boxing?
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
Warning!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie has been invited by Veronica to accompany her to an expensive event at the Country Club, and everyone in school runs away from him to avoid giving him a chance to ask for money.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #191 (June 1969)
-
Indexer Notes
The boy at the bulletin board in the splash panel appears to be a caricature of Lucey's colleague Dan DeCarlo.
Who Nose
Jughead / comic story / 3.8 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Jughead, with the help of Archie and Reggie, has a scheme to sell fake perfume to Betty.
- Reprints
Oh Baby
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 0.2 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty tells Veronica about her new neighbor.
- Reprints
Moose's Riddlers?
activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Answer Moose's riddles.
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #49 (March 1982)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Transportation experts say we need a vehicle....
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Miss Haggly
- Synopsis
- Archie's teacher knows the perfect vehicle.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
Diet Riot
Mr. Weatherbee / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- A doctor puts Mr. Weatherbee on a diet and places Miss Grundy in charge of making sure he sticks to it.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #11 (1959-1960)
-
Crate Fun!
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie and his friends find a crate. When they try to open it they all get injured.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #10 (1958-59)
-
[no title indexed]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wow! I've never saw Mr. Weatherbee eat his spinach like that!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Beazly
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee doesn't like spinach.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
[no title indexed]
Pipsy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh, this is just what I'd hoped for!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Pipsy; Doreen; Mr. Crudd
- Synopsis
- Pipsy must find out why all the athletes have bum knees right before the big game.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #24 (December 1947)
-
Indexer Notes
Joe Simon credit from the Who's Who.
Jack Kirby credit from the Jack Kirby Museum.
Popularity Pest
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Jughead helps Betty pick out a dress. Unfortunately it's the same dress he helped half the girls in the school pick out.
- Reprints
- from Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #10 (1958-59)
-
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty and Veronica / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Eda Edwards (as "Betty" and "Veronica")
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These novelty items are real cool!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie got Jughead a wastebasket shaped like a giant jar of peanut butter.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
An Unusual Monday With Miss Grundy
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- After Miss Grundy puts Archie in detention yet again, she thinks she's caught him stealing the hubcaps off her car.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #51 (April 1969)
-
The Princess and the Party Pooper
Archie's Fables / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- The Archie gang as characters in a fairy tale where Veronica is the princess who must wed Reggie but she really wants to wed Archie the stable boy.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #18 (February 1972)
-
Study Buddy
Jughead / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie has plans with both Betty and Veronica at the same time so he talks Jughead into taking his "study date" with Betty so he can go out with Veronica.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Jughead's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have you taken pictures of all the faculty yet?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead are taking pictures of faculty for the yearbook.
- Reprints
- from Archie daily comic strip (King Features, date unknown)
Price War
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Pop Tate announces that he's going out of business because of rising costs. Betty and Veronica advise him to raise his prices, but he refuses. So the girls come up with a different way to lower Pop's costs.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #8 ([January] 1960)
-
A Choice Choice
Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- To take his mother out on her birthday, Archie has to break a date with Veronica. Afraid to break the date, Archie tells Ronnie he's sick. When Veronica finds out, she's angry that Archie thought she wouldn't understand, so she decides to teach him a lesson.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #8 ([January] 1960)
-
Downed Plane Maze
activity / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #208 (September 1979)
-
Indexer Notes
A maze activity page.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Arch, I understand conditions here are excellent for skiers!"]
Archie -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
Stars and Gripes
Archie -
3.
["Your mother wants to learn how to drive, Archie!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
4.
Air Today - Gone Tomorrow!
Jughead -
5.
So's Your Aunt Mathilda
Betty -
6.
["Each passing year brings it a bit closer!"]
Veronica Gag Bag -
7.
Putting on the Dog!
Archie -
8.
Letter Quiz
Archie and the Gang -
9.
["Phew! Jogging is sure some conditioner!"]
Jughead's Gag Bag -
10.
Spanks for the Advice
Archie -
11.
Just an Idea
Reggie -
12.
["What's bugging you, Ronnie?"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
13.
Sailor Beware!
Archie -
14.
Clothes Call
Jughead -
15.
[no title indexed]
-
16.
["Miss Phlips, what happened to my newspaper?"]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag -
17.
The Kiss-Off
Betty and Veronica -
18.
Handball Happy
Archie -
19.
["I hear Betty is trying to start a girls' football team!"]
Betty's Gag Bag -
20.
Warning!
Archie -
21.
Who Nose
Jughead -
22.
Oh Baby
Betty and Veronica -
23.
Moose's Riddlers?
-
24.
["Transportation experts say we need a vehicle...."]
Archie's Gag Bag -
25.
Diet Riot
Mr. Weatherbee -
26.
Crate Fun!
Archie -
27.
["Wow! I've never saw Mr. Weatherbee eat his spinach like that!"]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag -
28.
["Gosh, this is just what I'd hoped for!"]
Pipsy -
29.
Popularity Pest
Betty and Veronica -
30.
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty and Veronica -
31.
["These novelty items are real cool!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
32.
An Unusual Monday With Miss Grundy
Archie -
33.
The Princess and the Party Pooper
Archie's Fables -
34.
Study Buddy
Jughead -
35.
["Have you taken pictures of all the faculty yet?"]
Jughead's Gag Bag -
36.
Price War
Betty and Veronica -
37.
A Choice Choice
Archie -
38.
Downed Plane Maze
-
39.
[Laugh Comics Digest #28]
-
40.
[no title indexed]
-
41.
[Jughead With Archie Digest #38]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Antonio Marques
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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