(March 1979)
Archie,
1974 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up, Inc.
- Barcode
- 0271000699703
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have you had your first ski lesson, Archie?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee
- Keywords
- skiing
Indexer Notes
Redrawn from the cover of Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #239.
Snow Fun
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (sourced)
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (sourced)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Betty Cooper, you should be ashamed of yourself!! What a childishly immature thing to do!!
- Feature Logo
Betty and Veronica- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Midge Klump; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Everyone seems to be into playing in the snow except Veronica, who sees it all as far too juvenile.
- Reprints
-
from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #125 (May 1966)
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Indexer Notes
Includes indicia at bottom of first page.
The Acrobat
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Egad!
- Feature Logo
Archie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Archie joins the tumbling team, and impresses Mr. Lodge and Smithers with his new ability to flip-flop around the house without breaking anything. Unfortunately he's still as clumsy as ever when he's just walking.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #225 (April 1973)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, how can you nose down our ice sculpture in this freezing temperature?
- Feature Logo
Archie's Gag Bag- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie accidentally encases Mr. Weatherbee's car in ice.
- Reprints
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
Screen Scene
Jughead / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (sourced)
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (sourced)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I shall prove to you reporters, that our latest release will be a huge success!
- Feature Logo
Jughead- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Miss Hopkins; Nanette
- Synopsis
- A Hollywood studio tries to get Jughead's "typical teenager" opinion on its upcoming movie, "Cycle Queen" starring the beautiful Nanette. Of course Jughead cares more about the studio commissary than the movie.
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #201 (February 1972)
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Snow Job
Reggie [Archie] / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, this is too much!
- Feature Logo
Reggie- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Betty tells Reggie to look inside himself and figure out why he's so mean to Archie.
- Reprints
- from Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #55 (May 1972)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
[no title indexed]
Miss Grundy Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, what you see is what you get!
- Feature Logo
Miss Grundy Gag Bag- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy gives Archie a bad grade.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #26 (January 1987)
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
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Devil Woman
Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Today Betty will wear her new twelve dollar cashmere to school!
- Feature Logo
Veronica- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Midge Klump; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- We're presented with a day in the life of Veronica Lodge, and all the mischief and deviltry she can spread around in eight short hours.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #105 (September 1964)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
Snow Job
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4.33 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sigh!... Not a drop of snow this winter! What's wrong, Daddy?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Greg; Hap Holliday; Li'l Jinx; Jack Frost
- Synopsis
- Jinx wants snow so she calls a Jack Frost she finds in the phone book.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #190 (February 1966)
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[no title indexed]
Super Duck Puzzle Page / activity / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look hard at the above diagram sometimes you will see three cubes and sometimes you will see five.
- Characters
- Super Duck
- Reprints
- from Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #19 (April 1948)
-
Indexer Notes
Optical illusion and find 15 items starting with B.
Original printing had a page count of 0.75 pages.
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sir, this is the hottest item I'm selling for the "Ahso Taki Co."!
- Feature Logo
- Archie's Gag Bag
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to sell Mr. Lodge an item to help conserve energy.
- Reprints
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
A Spell of Shovelling
Sabrina / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well this is where I came in! Golly that was a long movie!
- Feature Logo
Sabrina- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Aunt Hilda; Hilda Spellman; Sabrina Spellman
- Synopsis
- A man sees Sabrina magically making snow disappear, and wants to get her into show business. Aunt Hilda tries to shut him up by turning him into a snowman.
- Reprints
- from Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Archie, 1971 series) #10 (February 1973)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
Bully For You
Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bob Bolling (sourced)
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling (sourced)
- Inks
- Bob Bolling (sourced)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Bolling (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Uh oh! Here comes that big bully, Fangs Fogarty!
- Feature Logo
Little Archie- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Fangs Fogarty; Little Archie; Little Betty; Little Jughead; Little Reggie; Penny Peabody; Miss Plumm
- Synopsis
- Fangs Fogarty is always bullying Little Archie, hitting him with snowballs and stealing his lunch, but when Little Archie retaliates, Fangs complains to the teacher. Little Archie realizes that Fangs is really a coward at heart, and comes up with a way to prove that when they have to fight fair, bullies always get "cold feet."
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #30 (Spring 1964)
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- Keywords
- bully
Indexer Notes
Original printing included Bob Bolling's signature; removed in this printing.
[no title indexed]
Jughead's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Christopher Columbus saw a sign that said, See America First!
- Feature Logo
Jughead's Gag Bag- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Geraldine Grundy; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy is not happy with Jughead's report on Christopher Columbus.
- Reprints
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
The Pack-Rat Rat-Race
Super Duck / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- *[email protected]* Pack rat! You thief! Scram!
- Feature Logo
Super Duck- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Super Duck
- Synopsis
- Super Duck is tormented by a pack-rat.
- Reprints
- from Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #22 (October 1948)
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A Winter Wonderland
Wilbur / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Remember, Linda! Tomorrow night we have a date to go dancing!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Laurie Lake; Linda Moore; Wilbur Wilkin
- Synopsis
- Wilbur dates Linda every night for two weeks. Linda finds out Laurie's been out of town skiing. Thinking that's why she's been getting Wilbur's attention, Linda waits to see if he will keep their date for the following day. Wilbur goes to get Linda a box of chocolates. He's told he'll get them for free if he'll deliver some first. After he's delivered the last box his car breaks down. When Wilbur finally shows up at Linda's,she slams the door in his face. Rejected, he takes the candy to Laurie's only to find she is upset with him since he's been spending so much time with Linda.
- Reprints
- from Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #119 (January 1957)
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[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, Arch, Betty sent over a pecan pie for you!
- Feature Logo
- Archie's Gag Bag
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead delivers a pie to Archie.
- Reprints
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
What Kind of Ghoul Am I
Josie / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren (sourced)
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (sourced)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (sourced)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (sourced)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Girls! I've got you a gig you're going to flip over! You've been asked to play for royalty!
- Feature Logo
Josie and the Pussycats ['and the' stacked]- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- The Pussycats [Valerie Brown; Josie McCoy; Melody Valentine]; Alexander Cabot III; Ralph; Charlie
- Synopsis
- Alex gets the Pussycats an audition at Ghostly Estates for someone claiming to be a real live Count. Instead he turns out to be a dead count, a Vampire - and the whole house is full of monsters and ghostly creatures.
- Reprints
- from Josie and the Pussycats (Archie, 1969 series) #64 (September 1972)
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Frightening Friendship
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boys and girls, I want you all to meet Bobby Vance! He's going to be in our class!
- Feature Logo
- Betty and Veronica
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Geraldine Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Bobby Vance
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica fight over the new boy in class.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #194 (May 1967)
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[no title indexed]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hooky, you've got to be more career oriented!
- Feature Logo
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Waldo Weatherbee; Hooky
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee tries to get a student to be more career oriented.
- Reprints
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
Memories
Mr. Weatherbee / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't worry your little head about Veronica getting to the ball game, Arch! I'll personally escort her myself!
- Feature Logo
Mr. Weatherbee- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Ethel Muggs; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie's demands from the Board of Education lands him in hot water.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #41 (April 1971)
-
Indexer Notes
Original printing had a feature object of Archie and Me.
Faulty Friend
Jughead / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (sourced)
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda (sourced)
- Inks
- Mario Acquaviva (sourced)
- Colors
- Carlos Antunes (sourced)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Through? Really through?... You and Archie?
- Feature Logo
- Jughead
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Jughead pretends to not be friends with Archie because of his own faults.
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #169 (June 1969)
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Call Your Shots!
Little Archie / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Snow! Hurray! It's snow! Snow!
- Feature Logo
- Little Archie
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie; Little Betty; Little Reggie; Little Veronica
- Synopsis
- The boys throw snow at the girls, who are too weak to retaliate.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #5 (Winter 1957-1958)
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[no title indexed]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But those boys aren't learning their Latin!
- Feature Logo
- Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy finds a way to teach Latin to her students on the hockey team.
- Reprints
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
- Keywords
- hockey
Mr. Justice and the Cosmic Terror
Mr. Justice / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I must rescue the city below from this flaming menace!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mr. Justice [Prince James]; the Force Being (also called The Cosmic Terror)
- Synopsis
- Mr. Justice saves the city a huge meteorite that threatens to destroy it. But out of the meteor comes a being made of pure force and intent on destroying the city.
- Reprints
- from Mighty Comics (Archie, 1966 series) #47 (June 1967) [as "The Cosmic Peril!"]
-
- Keywords
- meteorite
Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
[no title indexed]
Super Duck Fun Page / activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can you identify this illustration pertaining to finance?
Indexer Notes
Finance puzzle; block puzzle; illustration completion; riddles; word square; lookalike puzzle; missing object puzzle.
[no title indexed]
Jughead's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jughead! You were hired to entertain at this party, not eat!
- Feature Logo
- Jughead's Gag Bag
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Jughead was hired to be a magician at Veronica's party.
- Reprints
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
It's a Gift
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie! Is that you?
- Feature Logo
- Archie
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Smithers; Mr. Purdy
- Synopsis
- Archie braves a blizzard to deliver a package to Veronica.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #217 (April 1972)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
Cover Girl
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Veronica! Aren't you cold?
- Feature Logo
- Betty and Veronica
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Alice Cooper; Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty's parents refuse to allow Betty to wear her miniskirt and mesh stockings and no coat out in twenty degree weather just because Veronica did it.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #162 (June 1969)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pesos, lire, francs and marks!
- Feature Logo
- Archie's Gag Bag
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie is studying exchange rates.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #26 (January 1987)
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
["Have you had your first ski lesson, Archie?"]
Archie -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
Snow Fun
Betty and Veronica -
3.
The Acrobat
Archie -
4.
["Archie, how can you nose down our ice sculpture in this freezing temperature?"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
5.
Screen Scene
Jughead -
6.
Snow Job
Reggie [Archie] -
7.
["Archie, what you see is what you get!"]
Miss Grundy Gag Bag -
8.
Devil Woman
Veronica -
9.
Snow Job
Li'l Jinx -
10.
["Look hard at the above diagram sometimes you will see three cubes and sometimes you will see five."]
Super Duck Puzzle Page -
11.
["Sir, this is the hottest item I'm selling for the "Ahso Taki Co."!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
12.
A Spell of Shovelling
Sabrina -
13.
Bully For You
Little Archie -
14.
["Christopher Columbus saw a sign that said, See America First!"]
Jughead's Gag Bag -
15.
The Pack-Rat Rat-Race
Super Duck -
16.
A Winter Wonderland
Wilbur -
17.
["Oh, Arch, Betty sent over a pecan pie for you!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
18.
What Kind of Ghoul Am I
Josie -
19.
Frightening Friendship
Betty and Veronica -
20.
["Hooky, you've got to be more career oriented!"]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag -
21.
Memories
Mr. Weatherbee -
22.
Faulty Friend
Jughead -
23.
Call Your Shots!
Little Archie -
24.
["But those boys aren't learning their Latin!"]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag -
25.
Mr. Justice and the Cosmic Terror
Mr. Justice -
26.
["Can you identify this illustration pertaining to finance?"]
Super Duck Fun Page -
27.
["Jughead! You were hired to entertain at this party, not eat!"]
Jughead's Gag Bag -
28.
It's a Gift
Archie -
29.
Cover Girl
Betty and Veronica -
30.
["Pesos, lire, francs and marks!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
31.
["It's a giant digest of stories and puzzles and fun for everyone... in full color!"]
Archie Annual Digest -
32.
[no title indexed]
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33.
["Fantastic! Good things come in little packages!"]
Archie Comics Digest; Jughead with Archie Digest
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