(February 1981)
Archie,
1977 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Barcode
- 0271000695802
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Archie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I won't be able to take you to tonight's dance, Veronica!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Professor Flutesnoot; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Moose Mason; Mr. Lodge
Indexer Notes
Redrawn from the cover of Pep #276.
![Cover Thumbnail for Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (1977 series) #17 [Canadian]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1483/w100/1483420.jpg?7777141611140560779)
Snow Day
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Beazly; Dilton Doily; Moose Mason; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- The regular characters fail to listen to the radio on a snowy day, and wind up trapped inside the school on a day when all the schools are closed.
- Reprints
-
from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #232 (February 1974)
-
The Meanest Girl in Town
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty; Veronica; Angie; Angie's family; policeman; detective
- Synopsis
- Veronica is suspicious of a young teen ostensibly collecting for charity. She has no sympathy when the girl is injured, and provokes the police to investigate. When she discovers that the family is in desperate straits, with the girl providing all their support, she takes the family under her wing and arranges a job for the girl.
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #184 (June 1971)
-
- Keywords
- Charity
Ice-Capades
Archie / activity / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #264 (January 1980)
-
[no title indexed]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! The snow is up to your knees today!
- Genre
- teen
Fade In, Fade Out
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stop that clomping in the hall!!!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee; Moose Mason; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee gets his ego inflated when he believes Archie is filming him for a movie.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #20 (April 1968)
-
On Ice
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Jinx! Where are you going with those ice skates?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Jinx is trying to learn to ice skate.
- Reprints
- from Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #40 (March 1970)
-
Star Struck
Reggie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yahoo! I've got a date with Midge!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Jughead warns Reggie about stealing Archie's date with Midge because his horoscope says he will run into some misfortune.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #8 (June 1970)
-
- Keywords
- astrology
Indexer Notes
Credits from reprint in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #2, no credits listed in this digest.
Reggie's Puzzle Page
Reggie / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
- Reprints
- from Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #33 (May 1975)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now, don’t open your bon voyage gift until you’re on board!
- Genre
- teen
Real Sports
Little Archie / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #58 (March 1970)
-
Making Her Mark
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Dad
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #193 (January 1972)
-
Can Do
Archie / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- When Archie needs money to take Veronica to a concert, Reggie convinces him that Mr. Lodge will pay ten dollars to anyone who brings a carload of pop cans for recycling.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #133 (May 1973)
-
[no title indexed]
Big Moose's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Moose, you didn't have to use such a long sheet of paper to type this short article!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #21 (March 1986)
- from Archie daily (King Feature Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX
-
White Stallion "Silver"
Katy Keene / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Woggon; Sally Wagner (plot)
- Pencils
- Bill Woggon
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fashion; teen
- Characters
- Katy Keene; Sis; Curly
- Synopsis
- Katy has a perilous encounter with a mistreated horse being harbored on Curly's ranch.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #124 (July 1961)
-
Indexer Notes
The plot for this story was suggested by reader Sally Wagner. The design for the horse "Silver" was submitted by reader Mary Beth Hooper.
Appetizer
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #121 (January 1966)
-
Stage Fright!
Veronica / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- T-the enemy is at the gates!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Veronica keeps tripping over things at the play because of her false eyelashes.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Miss Grundy Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Berdie, are you leaving us?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Berdie
- Synopsis
- Miss Grundy talks with Berdie about his switch to another school.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #13 (November 1977) which is reprinted
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
-
The Big Put-Down
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- When Archie's friends are griping about how much they hate school, he shows us what they really think by conjuring up a devilish new student who tries to tempt them into defacing the school.
- Reprints
- from Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #15 (April 1974)
-
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #56, inks are credited to Jon D'Agostino.
Stick Trick
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, boy! This makes 459---
- Genre
- humor; children
- Synopsis
- Hap shows Jinx how to build a tower out of ice cream bar sticks.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #212 (December 1967)
-
Black Book Bluff
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica threatens to break up with Archie unless he shows the gang the little black book where he's been writing down all their secrets. After sending another black book ("The Wobbsey Twins At Haunted Lodge") as a decoy, he finally gives in and is about to read the mysterious book to them, until he plays on his friends' fears of having their guilty secrets come out.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #149 (August 1963)
-
- Keywords
- secrets
You Don't Say
Jughead / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Fill the letter into the corresponding numbered blank to find the answers to five one-line jokes.
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #269 (October 1977)
-
[no title indexed]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Some of the books going around are scandalous!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee is curious when Betty and Berdie are discussing a book.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #13 (November 1977) which is reprinted
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
- From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
-
- Keywords
- books
The Closet Caper
Archie / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let me out! Somebody let me out!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Reggie's practical joke on Archie backfires.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #33 (Summer 1965)
-
The Unhappy King
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Reprints
- from Pat the Brat (Archie, 1956 series) #17 (November 1956)
-
Freeze Tease
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #109 (February 1967)
-
Who Is Sybil Floon?
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Smithers
- Synopsis
- When Mr. Lodge tells Veronica to date someone "practical and economy-minded", Archie goes out of his way to be cheap, going as far as using a dead woman's birthday cake.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #59 (August 1970)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, you’re not going to walk home in this storm!
- Genre
- teen
Letter Looney
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie and Reggie are impressed by all of the hot girls who answered Jughead's appeal for a pen pal. But Jughead isn't so impressed.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #90 (November 1962)
-
The Neighbors!
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley
- Synopsis
- Archie, Betty and Veronica are chased away from a house by the new inhabitants' vicious dog. Betty goes back to the house to apologize for snooping, and gets kidnapped and tied up in the basement.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #142 (February 1974)
-
[no title indexed]
Big Moose Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Moose, did you see that movie on TV about the courageous athlete who overcame his physical handicap?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #21 (March 1986)
- from Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX
-
The Head Man
Reggie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
- from Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #48 (May 1971)
-
Bold Cold
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead shares his cold remedy.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #28 (April 1972)
-
My Hero!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Smithers the butler
- Synopsis
- Veronica sends Archie to pick up a ten-foot sub sandwich from the deli for a party she's throwing later. Archie makes the mistake of allowing Jughead to accompany him.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #61 (December 1970)
-
Civic Duty
Jughead / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee leaves Jughead to take a delivery. But an altered street sign causes Jughead to take the wrong delivery.
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #147 (August 1967)
-
Great Skate
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty tries to break up Archie and Veronica's skating date on the frozen pond by causing them to skate over thin ice.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #8 ([January] 1960)
-
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I won't be able to take you to tonight's dance, Veronica!"]
Archie -
1.
Snow Day
Archie -
2.
The Meanest Girl in Town
Betty and Veronica -
3.
Ice-Capades
Archie -
4.
["Boy! The snow is up to your knees today!"]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag -
5.
Fade In, Fade Out
Archie -
6.
On Ice
Li'l Jinx -
7.
Star Struck
Reggie -
8.
Reggie's Puzzle Page
Reggie -
9.
["Now, don’t open your bon voyage gift until you’re on board!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
10.
Real Sports
Little Archie -
11.
Making Her Mark
Li'l Jinx -
12.
Can Do
Archie -
13.
["Moose, you didn't have to use such a long sheet of paper to type this short article!"]
Big Moose's Gag Bag -
14.
White Stallion "Silver"
Katy Keene -
15.
Appetizer
Li'l Jinx -
16.
Stage Fright!
Veronica -
17.
["Berdie, are you leaving us?"]
Miss Grundy Gag Bag -
18.
The Big Put-Down
Archie -
19.
Stick Trick
Li'l Jinx -
20.
Black Book Bluff
Archie -
21.
You Don't Say
Jughead -
22.
["Some of the books going around are scandalous!"]
Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag -
23.
The Closet Caper
Archie -
24.
The Unhappy King
-
25.
Freeze Tease
Archie -
26.
Who Is Sybil Floon?
Archie -
27.
["Archie, you’re not going to walk home in this storm!"]
Archie's Gag Bag -
28.
Letter Looney
Jughead -
29.
The Neighbors!
Archie -
30.
["Moose, did you see that movie on TV about the courageous athlete who overcame his physical handicap?"]
Big Moose Gag Bag -
31.
The Head Man
Reggie -
32.
Bold Cold
Jughead -
33.
My Hero!
Archie -
34.
Civic Duty
Jughead -
35.
Great Skate
Betty and Veronica -
36.
["Dis new electric drill don’t vork so good!"]
Mr. Svenson Gag Bag
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- Keith Alan Morgan
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