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Penciller(s): Dan DeCarlo (signed)

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Jughead Jones; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Li'l Jinx; Josie; Bingo Wilkin; Little Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Katy Keene; Randy Keene

First Line: Dilton, what's the world's most powerful magnet?

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Notes: Redrawn from the cover of Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #78

Blank Pages

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Notes: Inside front and inside back covers are blank.

The Learning Process

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews

Synopsis: Archie is too frequently careless at home so his father decides that anyone who breaks the dishes next will have to wash all the windows. Of course Archie's father is next to break some dishes.

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Money Pile

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie's Gag Bag

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge

Synopsis: Archie makes a comparison of Mr. Lodge's wealth in a way Jughead can understand.

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Roof Goof or Goofy Roofer

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones

Synopsis: Archie and Jughead help Archie's dad fix the roof.

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Forget-Me-Not

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Feature(s): Veronica

Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews

Synopsis: a maze

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Walking The Dog!

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Writer(s): Joe Edwards

Penciller(s): Joe Edwards

Inker(s): Joe Edwards

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Letterer(s): Joe Edwards

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Li'l Jinx

Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father

Synopsis: Jinx is sick so her father walks a neighbor's dog, discovering where Jinx goes when the dog leads him.

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Who Blew The Brew?

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Sabrina

Character(s): Sabrina Spellman; Aunt Hilda; Della

Synopsis: Sabrina refuses to take up the deviltry of witchcraft as practiced by her family. The Head Witch, Della, attempts to discipline her, but Sabrina is protected by love.

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Metric Gas

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Mr. Flutesnoot Gag Bag

Character(s): Mr. Flutesnoot; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mantle (cameo); Archie Andrews (cameo)

Synopsis: Dilton uses Archie's gasoline buying habits as an example when converting metric units.

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The Unwanted

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jodie; Jodie's father; Jodie's grandfather

Synopsis: Jodie's family is found camping on the Lodge's property and during a scuffle to get them to move out, their van careens down a hill with Jodie inside. But Archie saves the day with a daring jump.

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Pages: 10

Notes: In two Parts.

Teased Hair

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Betty and Veronica

Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Mr. Antoinne; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones

Synopsis: The girls get new hairdos but the boys don't notice.

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Daddy's Little Grown Up

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): That Wilkin Boy

Character(s): Sampson Smythe; Samantha Smythe; Shiela Smythe; Bingo Wilkin

Synopsis: Samantha is tired of her dad treating her like a little girl and accidentally scares her dad when he overhears her conversation with Bingo and misinterprets it as a marriage proposal.

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Pages: 7

Notes: In one panel, Samantha's shirt loses its color.

In Step

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Sampson Smythe

Character(s): Sampson Smythe; Samantha Smythe; Bingo Wilkin (cameo); Mr. Wilkin

Synopsis: Sampson tries to show how connected he is with his daughter by dancing, but he dances a waltz to a boogaloo song.

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Parting Gesture

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Writer(s): George Gladir

Penciller(s): Stan Goldberg

Inker(s): Chic Stone

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; student; professor

Synopsis: Miss Grundy gets a new job at a private school, but Archie finds a way to show her she won't fit in, before she makes the final decision.

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Notes: Credits from the reprint in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #36, no credits listed in this digest.

Procrastinating

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag

Character(s): Waldo Weatherbee; Svenson

Synopsis: Svenson has let maintenance backlog too long.

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That Settles It

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper

Synopsis: In trying to help Betty and Veronica settle an argument, Archie and Reggie come to blows.

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Pages: 5

It's A Draw!

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Writer(s): Joe Edwards

Penciller(s): Joe Edwards

Inker(s): Joe Edwards

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Letterer(s): Joe Edwards

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Li'l Jinx

Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father

Synopsis: Variation on the old "draw a horse and the horse will draw the wagon" gag.

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The Challenge

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Sabrina's Aunt Hilda

Character(s): Aunt Hilda; Pushy Products salesman; Sabrina Spellman

Synopsis: Hilda resorts to witchcraft and even physically throws out a salesman who won't take no for an answer... and Sabrina walks in and buys from him.

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Pages: 6

Notes: In one panel, Hilda's hat loses its color.

Don't Let It Puzzle You!

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Synopsis: puzzle page

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Belle Vista

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie's Pop Gag Bag

Character(s): Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews (cameo); farmer

Synopsis: Fred walks into a farm field thinking a sign offers it for sale, only to find it is the farmer's bull that's for sale.

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Freddie The Finder

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Freddy; Dilton Doily

Synopsis: Freddy wants attention, so he grabs things when no one is looking and then claims to "find" them, to accolades from everyone.

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Notes: In final panel, Freddy's shirt is missing some black lines.

Plots To You

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones

Synopsis: Veronica is acting strangely, not speaking to Archie. He discovers it's a plot of Betty's to keep Veronica from going to the dance this weekend.

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Notes: Includes two illustrations.

To Her Credit!

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Writer(s): Joe Edwards

Penciller(s): Joe Edwards

Inker(s): Joe Edwards

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Letterer(s): Joe Edwards

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Li'l Jinx

Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father

Synopsis: Jinx refuses to throw out a broken doll and claims to sell it to Gigi to prove its value.

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To Grandmother's House

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Josie

Character(s): Josie McCoy; Valerie Brown; Melody Valentine; Alexandra Cabot; Alan M. Mayberry (cameo); club owner

Synopsis: Valerie goes away to take care of a sick grandmother but the girls don't believe her and blame her leaving on a club owner, so they play poorly on purpose.

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Something To Crow About

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Big Ethel

Character(s): Big Ethel Muggs; Betty Cooper; Ralph; Flabbus Lippum; Hi Jacks

Synopsis: Ethel's new parrot, Ralph, flies away each night and one night lays an egg in an abandoned house used by crooks. Ralph makes such a ruckus repeating crime show scenes that the crooks fall into the basement of the house and are trapped.

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Auto-Magic

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper

Synopsis: Archie shines up his old jalopy but it's still just as noisy as ever so Veronica refuses to ride in it. But Betty both sees the beauty and welcomes any excuse to be with Archie.

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Randy's Rocket

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Katy Keene

Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis; Billy; Randy Van Ronson

Synopsis: Sis buys Billy a space helmet for his birthday and uses a fishbowl for a helmet for herself, becoming stuck and unable to enjoy the birthday goodies.

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Pages: 5.67

Statement of Ownership

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Writer(s): Louis H. Silberkleit (business manager)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 0.33

Notes: For October 1, 1980. Editor: John L. Goldwater, Managing Editor: Richard H. Goldwater, Publisher: Close-Up Inc., Sales through dealers (average copies each issue): 132,167, Subscriptions (average copies each issue): 17.

3 On A Date

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Veronica

Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis: Veronica accidentally invites both guys on a date, where Reggie shows off so much that she finally sneaks away with just Archie.

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Stuck With Luck

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Feature(s): Pat The Brat

Character(s): Pat; Susie; Blinky; Pat's mother

Synopsis: Pat believes in superstitions such as walking under a ladder being bad luck, but gets the worst end of things trying to avoid them.

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Easy Does It!

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Synopsis: Plans to build a ball toss target, and a vocabulary quiz.

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Delay Action

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis: Reggie delays Archie from an appointment with Veronica, only to find they were planning his surprise birthday party.

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Fed Up!

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Rebel

Character(s): Rebel; Willie Wilkin; Mrs. Wilkin

Synopsis: Rebel believes the statistics on accidents in the kitchen refer to the meals-gone-bad that he has to eat.

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Homework Happy

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Writer(s): Dexter Taylor

Penciller(s): Dexter Taylor

Inker(s): Rudy Lapick

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Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Little Archie

Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Veronica Lodge; Miss Grundy

Synopsis: Archie fails a test and Miss Grundy recommends he study with Betty and Veronica, who both aced it. But Betty spends the time playing house and Veronica becomes angry, so the only subject he does well in is war.

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Notes: Credits from the printed credits in the reprint in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #222

On The Prowl

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Archie

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Herbie; woman; police officers; Pop Tate

Synopsis: Archie and Jughead dress up in some old Scottish costumes, accidentally scare a neighbor, and pay off Herbie with ice cream so he won't tell the police who scared the neighbor.

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Go Go Go...

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Writer(s): Joe Edwards

Penciller(s): Joe Edwards

Inker(s): Joe Edwards

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Letterer(s): Joe Edwards

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Li'l Jinx

Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's friend

Synopsis: Li'l Jinx has trouble spelling Mississippi.

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Airports

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Jughead's Gag Bag

Character(s): Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Archie Andrews

Synopsis: Jughead opines about why airports are far out of towns.

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Feature(s): Jughead Jones Comics Digest #17

Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews

First Line: Get Your Act Together...

Synopsis: Order form for comic book.

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Fantastic! Good Things Come In Little Packages!

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Feature(s): Archie Comics

Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis: House ad for Archie digest comics.

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Notes: Back cover.