(October 1984)
Archie,
1977 Series
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly in Feb., April, June, Aug., Oct. and Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Archie Digest Library
- Barcode
- 0271000695834
- Editing
- ?
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 give up, Veronica! What's so special about today?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
Redrawn (with a change of girl) from the cover of Archie #276.
![Cover Thumbnail for Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (1977 series) #34 [Canadian]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1483/w100/1483424.jpg?1523772643264154530)
Disaster Master
Archie and the Gang / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley; Mr. Weatherbee; Prof. Flutesnoot
- Synopsis
- Archie and the guys are stranded in the woods and must use their individual skills to help them survive.
- Reprints
-
from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #98 (October 1975)
-
What Every Young Girl Should Know
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Midge and Betty argue over the most important thing a girl needs to be able to play.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #93 (September 1963)
-
I Wish! I Wish!
Archie / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #301 (February 1981)
-
The Yanks Are Coming
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #77 (September 1968)
-
Maxi-Mini
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's my father's tuxedo! Can you take it in?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie asks Betty to alter his tuxedo so he can take Veronica to the school dance. Betty gets her revenge by making the suit fall apart during the dance.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #96 (April 1970)
-
Jughead's Read Out
Jughead / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #314 (July 1981)
-
Archie On the Brain
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica lectures Betty for only wanting to talk about Archie.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #37 (July 1958)
-
[no title indexed]
Betty's Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Betty, aren't you playing tennis with Veronica?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, XX-XX-19XX)
Her Man Friday (And Most of Saturday)
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Crazy Charlie
- Synopsis
- Archie is determined to make it to Lonesome Island by any means possible.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #194 (September 1969)
-
The Hard Way
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Synopsis
- Jinx tries to teach herself to roller skate.
- Reprints
- from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #36 (August 1971)
-
[no title indexed]
Archie Presents Whose Views / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Limb, Trim, Slim, Dim
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Words viewed from a girl's viewpoint and a differing boy's viewpoint: limb, trim, slim, dim.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #38 (September 1958)
-
- Keywords
- Illustration and brief text.
Winner Take All
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Archie has agreed to help Betty tutor some underprivileged children but then discovers it's the same day as his big drag race against Reggie.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #99 (July 1970)
-
- Keywords
- drag racing
[no title indexed]
Veronica Gag Bag / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie is like all men!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, XX-XX-19XX)
Stable Manners
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #37 (November 1958)
-
Mum's the Word
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Suspicious that Betty has a secret formula to grow plants that will win the upcoming flower show, Veronica dispatches Archie to discover it.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #34 (January 1958)
-
- Keywords
- flowers
Togetherness
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Pop warns the guys that counterfeit bills are circulating.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #143 (December 1969)
-
Summer Fashions
Betty and Veronica / illustration / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #23 (September 1963)
-
Indexer Notes
Reader submitted fashions
Fast Service
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday
- Synopsis
- Jinx finally answers her father's summons.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #85 (June 1974)
-
Sock it to Me
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #77 (September 1968)
-
Sound Off
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- The crowd at Pop's is so loud that Betty and Veronica go to adjoining phone booths to gossip by phone.
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #13 (October 1961)
-
- Keywords
- gossip; telephone; telephone booths
Summer Shorts
Archie / comic story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead go fishing in a boat with an outboard motor they're ill-equipped to handle.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #29 (Summer 1964)
-
- Keywords
- fishing; outboard motor; salmon
Indexer Notes
Two two-panel jokes.
Cheers
Chuck Clayton / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Chuck Clayton; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Chuck is having a bad day so Reggie cheers him up, but then Reggie needs cheering up himself.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #98 (October 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprinting in Archie & Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #30.
Switch Pitch
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Jughead pitches at a ball game...hot dogs, that is.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #8 (November 1968)
-
Big Daddy
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hal Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie and Betty think that the world's troubles are due to the generation gap, but quickly realize that their parents were once just as "cool" as they are.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #99 (July 1970)
-
Nice Advice
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Jughead advises Dilton on how not to get bullied at the beach.
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #8 (November 1968)
-
The Boy Friend
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- children
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #126 (January 1978)
-
Camp Champs
Mr. Weatherbee / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, you're an expert at swimming!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee assigns teaching duties at camp.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #78 (October 1975)
-
Zoo What?
Jughead / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #26 (January 1957)
-
A Time in Life
Betty / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty runs away with a child whose parents were killed in a plane crash, and Archie and Jughead go looking for her.
- Reprints
- from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #37 (September 1971)
-
Indexer Notes
formerly a Betty and Me story.
Downbeat!
Veronica / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Veronica is too tired to go hiking with Archie, but she's not too tired to cut a rug with him.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #34 (January 1958)
-
Brush Off!
Betty / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley
- Synopsis
- Dilton fails as an art critic.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #34 (January 1958)
-
Indexer Notes
The Betty faces may be photostatic paste-ups from old art done by George Frese.
Ye Olde Refrain
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Waldo Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- The gang runs into Mr. Weatherbee in an antique shop.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #77 (September 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
formerly an Archie and Me story.
Trial and Error
Veronica / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Veronica has a bad memory. Reggie tells her that Archie went to the movies with a "real doll" Wednesday. Veronica stalks off to confront Archie, not realizing that she was the girl Reggie was referring to.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #38 (September 1958)
-
- Keywords
- memory
Bark Lark
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Synopsis
- Jughead wants Hot Dog to be an actor.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #162 (July 1971)
-
Pass the Brass
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead are followed from a junkyard by an alien robot that eats brass.
- Reprints
- from Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #151 (October 1963)
-
- Keywords
- aliens; brass; junkyard
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #242, writing is credited to Harry Lucey and inks are credited to Vince DeCarlo. Barrel in splash panel is labeled "Doyle Oil."
Ham-Burglar!
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There, the table is all set! Now all we have to do is wait for Jughead to bring the hamburgers back from the sweet shop!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty hosts a dinner and makes the mistake of sending Jughead to pick up the food.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #24 (May 1956)
-
Double Check
Moose / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Marmaduke "Moose" Mason
- Synopsis
- Moose doesn't get modern slang.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #34 (January 1958)
-
Stretch the Truth
Leroy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; teen; children
- Characters
- Cousin Leroy; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica's Cousin Leroy has a ready excuse for the broken window.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #34 (January 1958)
-
Getting Involved
Jughead / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- After a lecture from Jughead, Archie takes a stand and confronts some tough kids who are defacing public property.
- Reprints
- from Jughead (Archie, 1965 series) #197 (October 1971)
-
Chap Trap
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #8 (November 1968)
-
Golden Eagle Mine
Archie / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #226 (September 1981)
-
Auto Suggestion
Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's something wrong with my car! Will you look at it please?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie tells Veronica that her car needs a new head for the driver so she takes the car to a mechanic.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #24 (May 1956)
-
There's a Catch to It!
The Little Archies / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- children
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #90 (October 1969)
-
Catching It!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's dad
- Synopsis
- A Butterfly did it.
- Reprints
- from Life with Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #89 (September 1969)
-
Once Upon A Time
Veronica's Mom & Dad / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Lodge; Mrs. Lodge; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Mr. and Mrs. Lodge share complaints about the younger generation.
- Reprints
- from Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #23 (September 1963)
-
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I give up, Veronica! What's so special about today?"]
Archie -
1.
Disaster Master
Archie and the Gang -
2.
What Every Young Girl Should Know
Betty and Veronica -
3.
I Wish! I Wish!
Archie -
4.
The Yanks Are Coming
Li'l Jinx -
5.
Maxi-Mini
Archie -
6.
Jughead's Read Out
Jughead -
7.
Archie On the Brain
Betty and Veronica -
8.
["Betty, aren't you playing tennis with Veronica?"]
Betty's Gag Bag -
9.
Her Man Friday (And Most of Saturday)
Archie -
10.
The Hard Way
Li'l Jinx -
11.
["Limb, Trim, Slim, Dim"]
Archie Presents Whose Views -
12.
Winner Take All
Archie -
13.
["Archie is like all men!"]
Veronica Gag Bag -
14.
Stable Manners
Jughead -
15.
Mum's the Word
Betty and Veronica -
16.
Togetherness
Archie -
17.
Summer Fashions
Betty and Veronica -
18.
Fast Service
Li'l Jinx -
19.
Sock it to Me
Archie -
20.
Sound Off
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica -
21.
Summer Shorts
Archie -
22.
Cheers
Chuck Clayton -
23.
Switch Pitch
Jughead -
24.
Big Daddy
Archie -
25.
Nice Advice
Jughead -
26.
The Boy Friend
Little Archie -
27.
Camp Champs
Mr. Weatherbee -
28.
Zoo What?
Jughead -
29.
A Time in Life
Betty -
30.
Downbeat!
Veronica -
31.
Brush Off!
Betty -
32.
Ye Olde Refrain
Archie -
33.
Trial and Error
Veronica -
34.
Bark Lark
Jughead -
35.
Pass the Brass
Archie -
36.
Ham-Burglar!
Betty and Veronica -
37.
Double Check
Moose -
38.
Stretch the Truth
Leroy -
39.
Getting Involved
Jughead -
40.
Chap Trap
Jughead -
41.
Golden Eagle Mine
Archie -
42.
Auto Suggestion
Veronica -
43.
There's a Catch to It!
The Little Archies -
44.
Catching It!
Li'l Jinx -
45.
Once Upon A Time
Veronica's Mom & Dad -
46.
["This is perfect weather, Betty!"]
Archie's Gag Bag
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- Katie
- Katy Hayhurst
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
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