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Issue: Archie #102
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #102 of 565 Issues (998 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/10/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: There is a blank spot in the indicia after "Archie," possibly indicating the change from "Archie Comics" was a last-minute decision. On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; then standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: This baby has everything! What more could I want in a new car?
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Pages: 1
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Lead 'em and Weep

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: When Archie gets a card from a weight and fortune machine that says he's "fearless, determined, strong-willed and a born leader," he gets conceited. Reggie tries to knock him down a peg by bribing a boy to ask Archie to lead his club on a hike in the forest. The scheme backfires when the boy's hiking club consists of his sister and her friends.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: One of several weight and fortune machine stories that include the running joke "and it got your weight wrong, too!"
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Blackboard Blues!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Miss Grundy
Character(s): Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee; Archie Andrews (cameo); Reggie Mantle (cameo); Veronica Lodge (cameo); Jughead Jones (cameo); Moose Mason
Synopsis: Miss Grundy can't get her students to pay attention in class. Mr. Weatherbee suggests that the only thing that interests teenagers is television, which gives Miss Grundy an idea to solve the problem.
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Pages: 1.67
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Call Me Brawny

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Jughead
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Reggie hears a rumor that Jughead ordered a mail-order course in body-building.
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Pages: 0.33
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Well Attired

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: While looking for a tire for his car in the city dump, Archie finds a box containing a pearl necklace. Embarrassed to tell Veronica that he picked up the necklace in the dump, Archie has Jughead drop the box in an expensive jewelry store, so he can tell Veronica that he picked it up there. Unfortunately for the plan, the store detective sees them and thinks they are shoplifting.
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Top Value in Comics!

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Archie Annual
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
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Pages: 1
Job Number: 121
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Annual #11 with mail-in coupon. Premium in 1960 Archie Pin-Up Calendar. Cover and calendar are shown, along with original art.
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Gone to the Dogs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis: Reggie gets Jughead in trouble by hiding a rabbit in his desk. Mr. Weatherbee decides to make Reggie "game warden" of the high school to keep students from bringing pets to school and gives him a whistle. Jughead switches the whistle for an ultra-sonic dog whistle, so that when Reggie blows it, a pack of dogs invades the school.
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A Capital Joke

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Moose
Character(s): Miss Grundy; Moose Mason; Betty Cooper (cameo); Archie Andrews (cameo); Dilton Doiley (cameo)
Synopsis: Miss Grundy asks Moose where the capital of the United States is located.
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Pages: 0.5
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Three's a Crowd

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Reggie's new girlfriend is too self-centered.
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Pages: 0.5
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Archie Club News
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Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: First prize of $5.00 to Roy McClain (Ashland, Ky.) for article on her hobby of collecting old costume jewelry. Second prize of $3.00 to Karen Roth (Levitown, Pa.) for article on her pen-pal from Brazil. Third prize of $2.00 to Richard Pare (Lowell, Mass.) for three jokes. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Sandra Majndle (New Bedford, Mass.) for article on her job in the school library. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Carol Voigt (Bellmore, N.Y.) for article on her hobby of collecting post cards. Sixth prize of $1.00 to Hershy Kwinter (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) for a poem about falling snow.
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Archie Club
Character(s): Archie Andrews (cameo)
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for memberships in the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 15 cents.
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Hair Pressure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; René; Andy
Synopsis: Veronica sends Archie to pick up a package from René's Beauty Shoppe. When Reggie and Betty see him come out of the shop they razz him and he gets more grief from other students the next day at school.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: René is a stereotypical "swishy" male hairdresser.

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