(1979 - 1980)
Archie,
1975 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- Once a year
- On-sale Date
- 1979-06-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics, Inc.
- Barcode
- 0271000690892
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #169.
The Dream Team Scheme
Captain Sprocket / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Super Pizza Pie Man; Spray Man; Roller Surfboard Man; Doctor Flame (villain); The Shield; Fly-Man; The Black Hood; the Comet
- Synopsis
- When Captain Sprocket sees the Mighty Crusaders at a personal appearance, he decides to organize a super-group of his own.
- Reprints
-
from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #43 (October 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing.
Making the Green Scene
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Rod the Mod; Fran the Fan; Dippy Diddit; Clyde Diddit (host); Dan Diddit (host); Dick Diddit (host)
- Synopsis
- The Glads present a satirical mouthwash commercial.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #90 (September 1973)
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Guess Who Said
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones (host)
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #15 (October 1961)
-
Indexer Notes
Group of gag panels.
The Discovery of Doughnuts!
Mr. Weatherbee Presents "Great moments in history" / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee (host); Jughead Jones; Clyde Diddit (mentioned); Laslo Sforz
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee recounts the story of how hole-seller Laslo Sforz created doughnuts by wrapping an Italian breadstick around one of his holes.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
The Power of the Press
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Fran the Fan; Dippy Didit; Dick Didit; Clyde Didit; Rod the Mod
- Synopsis
- A member of the mob attempts to bomb Clyde's apartment for writing exposés about the fixing of college sports. Later, Dick unknowingly hits the mobster with his car and takes him to his house until he comes to, where his conversation about how to cook a fish scares the mobster into thinking that he is going to die a gruesome death at the hands of the Glads.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #84 (August 1972)
-
Dr. Bonehead's Boner
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Dr. Bonehead (villain)
- Synopsis
- Dr. Bonehead invents a formula that makes insects super-size, but gives them human intelligence. He plans to use them to commit crimes, but they have other ideas.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #40 (June 1965)
-
- Keywords
- basketball; Beatles; beetle; butterfly; caterpillar; grasshopper; insects
[no title indexed]
Mad House Hall of Fame / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Twist Brothers; Gladys Globb; Skip Scallop; Bruce "The Bruiser" Rammer; Oswald Lovabuoy; Andy Kosign; Hank Sadsong
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
Famous Females
Mad House History Dept. / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Abner Doubleday; Alexander Graham Bell; Ben Franklin; Robert Peary
- Synopsis
- A look at the (fictional) famous females behind historic happenings.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
Humpty Dumpty
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Dippy Diddit; Clyde Diddit; Dick Diddit; Dan Diddit
- Synopsis
- A teenage retelling of Humpty Dumpty.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #90 (September 1973)
-
[no title indexed]
Mighty Inch / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Presenting the Itty-Bittiest Hero...
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Mighty Inch; Union of Super Heroes; Green Terror (villain)
- Synopsis
- The other super-heroes make fun of the tiny Mighty Inch, but he's the one who defeats the Green Terror.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #38 (February 1965)
-
- Keywords
- match box; mosquito; nuclear weapons; shaving cream
If Teen Agers Formed a Union
Archie / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
[volume 1]
The Madhouse Encyclopedia / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Alexander the Great; Alfred the Great; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Includes entries on aardvarks, adaptation, air, airplanes, Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Archie the Great, and apes.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
Indexer Notes
Archie's birth year omitted from this reprint.
The Cat and the Fiddle
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Fran the Fan (host); Dippy Diddit; Clyde Diddit
- Synopsis
- A teenage retelling of The Cat and the Fiddle.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #90 (September 1973)
-
Double or Nothing
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Fran the Fan; Dan Didit; Dick Didit
- Synopsis
- Dan takes Dick and Fran to a swinging singles' club.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #84 (August 1972)
-
Wild West Days
Teenagers of the Past / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A look at teen-agers in the frontier days.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #15 (October 1961)
-
Monsters from Outer Space
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A look at various monsters including the Six-Legged Venutians, female Saturnians, and the Brainy Kids of Jupiter.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
It Always Happens..
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cyrus Glutton; Gloria Twirler; Jeremy Shaggymain; Ronda Wrightless
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
Fire Ire
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A race of mole men from beneath the Earth have their surface invasion thwarted.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #44 (December 1965)
-
- Keywords
- mole men; sun
I Dated a Monster
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Beatrice; Blobko; Skurka; Clyde Diddit (mentioned)
- Synopsis
- A beautiful teenage girl throws herself at an indifferent hideous monster.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #44 (December 1965)
-
- Keywords
- drive-in movie; fourth wall; monster; skateboard; telephone
Indexer Notes
A parody of romance comics. The girl talks to the readers in the final panel.
Video Idiocy
Super Disguise / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Super Disguise; Super TV Repairman; Union of Super Good Guys
- Synopsis
- Super Disguise is invited to join the Union Of Super Good Guys, and his first assignment is to find out why Super TV Repairman is destroying TV sets.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #37 (December 1964)
-
- Keywords
- disguise; picket line; television; TV aerial; TV commercial
Everday Super Guys
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Super Janitor; Super Barber; Super Waiter; Super Parking Lot Attendent; Super Trading Stamp Man; Super Furniture Man; Super Shoeshine Boy; Super Germ (villain); Super Jaywalker (villain)
- Synopsis
- What would happen if everyday people were superheroes?
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #38 (February 1965)
-
Little Miss Muffet
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Fran the Fan; Rod the Mod
- Synopsis
- A teenage retelling of Little Miss Muffet.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #90 (September 1973)
-
Speck of Trouble
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Clyde Didit; Dan Didit; Mr. Didit; Fran the Fan
- Synopsis
- After complaining about the boys music, Mr. Didit decides to play around with some Beethoven but can't get anything right. He is on his last sheet of composing paper when his writing pen explodes onto his violin. He twangs the ink off the violin and it goes onto his last sheet of paper. The boys come home as Pops is calling it quits. They find the music (really a bunch of blots) and turn it into a big hit.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #93 (May 1974)
-
Professor Nonuttin's Science Corner
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Professor Nonuttin; Professor Seaweed; Professor Von Orbit; Clyde Diddit (heard, but not seen); A. Shookup
- Synopsis
- Various oddball science bits.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #15 (October 1961)
-
Boxing Machine
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A pantomime gag in which a man fights an electronic boxing robot.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #13 (July 1961)
-
Fab Lab
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- The Scientist; His Assistant; The Teen
- Synopsis
- A renegade scientist uses a radical procedure on a teenager.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #44 (December 1965)
-
- Keywords
- dandruff; lightning
The Invention of Kissing
Mr. Weatherbee Presents "Great moments in history" / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Jughead Jones; Louie; Blondie the Nurse; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- A look at Louie the Lip, who discovered kissing after he leaned in too far to show a nurse his lip injury.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #15 (October 1961)
-
Stitch Pitch
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Stanley (the tailor); Flame Man; Fish Man; Super Sewer Man; Super Sally; Dynamic Doll; Super Stretch; Mighty Inch (mention); Goliath Man
- Synopsis
- The problems of being a tailor for all the various types of super-heroes.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #38 (February 1965)
-
- Keywords
- costumes; phone booth; tailor
Lester the Hipster
Chester and Lester / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Lester Cool; Chester Square
- Synopsis
- Martians capture Lester and show him all their latest weapons. Instead of being frightened, Lester thinks the weapons would be useful on Earth. The Martians decide Earth people are too crazy to be frightened and call off their invasion.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #21 (September 1962)
-
- Keywords
- aliens; caterpillar; flying saucer; freezing gun; growth ray; ice cream; Martians; robot; shrinking ray; skin diving; Twist
Indexer Notes
Credits from World of Archie Double Digest #16 reprint.
Madhouse Sports and Games!
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Gag panels illustrating old sayings as sports.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #15 (October 1961)
-
It's Shocking
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Dick Malmgren
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Clyde Didit; Fran "the Fan" Frazier; Dippy Didit
- Synopsis
- Clyde teaches Fran to play chess.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #92 (March 1974)
-
Whale of a Tale
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #43 (October 1965)
-
Capt. Sprocket Meets His Greatest Foe Dr. Neutron
Captain Sprocket / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Sprocket; Dr. Neutron (villain); Super Sally and her Gang [Super Sally; Super Steelman; Super Foot; Super Flame]
- Synopsis
- Capt. Sprocket meets his greatest foe Dr. Neutron.
(Part 2) Dr. Neutron has Captain Sprocket ready to be sliced into ice cubes, but is interrupted by Super Sally and her gang of super-heroes. - Reprints
- from Archie's Madhouse (Archie, 1959 series) #37 (December 1964), #38 (February 1965)
-
- Keywords
- ice; jail; phone booth
Indexer Notes
Originally published in two parts.
Clyde's Famous Last Words
Mad-House Glads / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Clyde Diddit; Fran the Fan
- Synopsis
- Clyde says he can go another 25 miles with the gas gauge needle on empty...and finds himself walking for gas.
- Reprints
- from The Mad House Glads (Archie, 1970 series) #90 (September 1973)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Wild And Crazy]
-
1.
The Dream Team Scheme
Captain Sprocket -
2.
Making the Green Scene
Mad-House Glads -
3.
Guess Who Said
Jughead -
4.
The Discovery of Doughnuts!
Mr. Weatherbee Presents "Great moments in history" -
5.
The Power of the Press
Mad-House Glads -
6.
Dr. Bonehead's Boner
-
7.
[no title indexed]
Mad House Hall of Fame -
8.
Famous Females
Mad House History Dept. -
9.
Humpty Dumpty
Mad-House Glads -
10.
["Presenting the Itty-Bittiest Hero..."]
Mighty Inch -
11.
If Teen Agers Formed a Union
Archie -
12.
[volume 1]
The Madhouse Encyclopedia -
13.
The Cat and the Fiddle
Mad-House Glads -
14.
Double or Nothing
Mad-House Glads -
15.
Wild West Days
Teenagers of the Past -
16.
Monsters from Outer Space
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17.
It Always Happens..
-
18.
Fire Ire
-
19.
I Dated a Monster
-
20.
Video Idiocy
Super Disguise -
21.
Everday Super Guys
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22.
Little Miss Muffet
Mad-House Glads -
23.
Speck of Trouble
Mad-House Glads -
24.
Professor Nonuttin's Science Corner
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25.
Boxing Machine
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26.
Fab Lab
-
27.
The Invention of Kissing
Mr. Weatherbee Presents "Great moments in history" -
28.
Stitch Pitch
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29.
Lester the Hipster
Chester and Lester -
30.
Madhouse Sports and Games!
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31.
It's Shocking
Mad-House Glads -
32.
Whale of a Tale
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33.
Capt. Sprocket Meets His Greatest Foe Dr. Neutron
Captain Sprocket -
34.
Clyde's Famous Last Words
Mad-House Glads
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