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Issue: Archie #240
Publication Date: December 1974
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Issues: #240 of 565 Issues (689 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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Goldwater
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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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan DeCarlo
Inker(s): Rudy Lapick
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy
First Line: Archie, what is about to become extinct?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #49
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Just Travel Along

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Doyle
Penciller(s): Harry Lucey
Inker(s): Chic Stone
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Archie sees Betty leave a travel agency with a plane ticket to Baghdad, and imagines ghastly scenarios for why she's leaving the country. Then she passes the ticket to Jughead, and Archie imagines what will happen to him in exotic lands. Then Jughead gives the ticket to Veronica...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Starting with this story, Harry Lucey replaces Betty's ponytail with a more typically '70s hairstyle. He would use this look for Betty in most of his stories until his retirement in 1976, though the other Archie artists stuck with the ponytail.
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Window Pain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Edwards
Penciller(s): Joe Edwards
Inker(s): Joe Edwards
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Edwards
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Li'l Jinx
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Rights and Wrongs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lucey
Inker(s): Chic Stone
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica go with Archie to the carnival, where Veronica thinks he's acting like a chauvinist.
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In Content Item: FlagArchie Annual Digest #35 published January 1979
as Rights and Wrongs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine #45 published December 1999
as Rights and Wrongs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Brush Off

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Doyle
Penciller(s): Harry Lucey
Inker(s): Chic Stone
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Jughead and Reggie annoy Archie while he's painting the house.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchie & Friends Double Digest Magazine #29 [Direct Edition] published September 2013
as The Brush Off [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: When reprinted in Archie & Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #29, inks are credited to Harry Lucey.
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The Protectors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Doyle
Penciller(s): Harry Lucey
Inker(s): Chic Stone
Colorist(s): Barry Grossman
Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
Synopsis: After Archie declares that he's going to do something he never did before, his friends think he's challenged Moose to a fight.
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Pages: 6

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