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Issue: Archie Giant Series Magazine #1
Publication Date: December 1954
 
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/24/1954
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 63 (40 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1954 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfect bound; later saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
One for
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Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Giant Series Magazine #203
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Hi ya gang! Here's a special Christmas message for you about what goes into this book!
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Car Hoppy

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Oboy, Arch! Here comes the clown car that all the kids were laughing at!
Archie and Jughead modify Archie's car with joke gadgets after seeing a clown car at the circus
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No Buddy Loves Me

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Heard you kissed another fellow at the dance last night!
Archie heard Veronica kissed another fellow at the dance and tries many guesses as to who it was.
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Empire Builders

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Lionel Trains
Joe
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It Paint Necessarily So

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Hubert Smithers; Professor Formaldehyde
Thanks for everything Archie! Won't you come in for a while?
Archie ruins a piece of art that Mr Lodge had painted but an art professor loves it.
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The Oily Bird

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Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Maybe if you changed your oil you'd get a better pick-up!
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Look, Gang! The Greatest Bike in America!

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Columbia Speedliner
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Bearly Freezing

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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee
Miss Grundy, is there something wrong with the heating plant?
Mr. Weatherbee refuses to close the school when the heater breaks and thinks everyone is exaggerating about how cold it is.
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Dream Car

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
No kiddin' Jug!
Jughead's father has a new convertible.
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Cabinet Fakers

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee
Hup! Two---three---four---
Mr Weatherbee decides to punish Archie and Jughead with physical labor after they misbehave in school.
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Lend Cease

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humorous, teen
Fred Andrews
Here comes that pesky neighbor of mine who's always borrowing things!
Fred pretends that he'll be busy with his lawn mower all day so his neighbor won't ask to borrow it.
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Dime of your Life!

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Hey! What gives, Jug!
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Comic strip style house ad for Archie's Joke Book #15
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Hair's Looking At You

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
This is me on my first birthday!
Archie convinces his father to buy a toupee
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A Touch of Flattery

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Archie's Teacher Miss Grundy
Geraldine Grundy; unnamed bum
I beg your pardon young lady!
A bum asks Miss Grundy for a dime.
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Leaf Me Alone

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Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee
Well, well, I always say, where there's a fire you'll find a punk that started it!
Mt Weatherbee asks Jughead to burn some leaves. Reggie decides to play some pranks on Jughead and gets Mr. Weatherbee instead.
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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Betty, how can you tell what horse power a car has?
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Change of Face

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Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
Say! Look who's there!
Fred mistakes a random man for an old school buddy
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Archie Points with Pride to the Archie Group

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Archie Comics
Archie Andrews
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Promo for the Archie Comics Group. A full-figure of Archie promoting the other comics, Pep, Laugh, Betty and Veronica, Jughead, Super Duck, Wilbur, and Katy Keene, which are shown with small logos and head shots.
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Heads Up

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Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
If you're trying to play "William Tell", Jughead, you're liable to get an arrow through your noggin!
Reggie and Jughead have a bet to see who can balance the most apples on their heads.
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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate
Any of the gang around, Pop?
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Substitute Santa

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Archie
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Messed by Test

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Coming to my party tonight, Barbara?
Veronica becomes less popular after being voted most popular girl in school.
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Canvas Classic

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Well, canvas-back, in ten minutes I'll be junior class boxing champ!
Archie and Reggie both try to lose a boxing fight on purpose after learning the winner will be taking out Betty instead of Veronica
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Archie Fun Page
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How Much Is Your Quarter Worth?

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Archie
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Order form for Archie's Quarter Comics (Katy Keene Annual #1, Katy Keene Pin-Up Parade #1, Archie's Pal Jughead Annual #2, Archie Annual #6, Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #3, Betty and Veronica Annual #2
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A Good Mixer

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
That does it! I'm going to lunch!
Veronica has trouble explaining to her house painter the color that she wants.
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Return Male

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Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Morning, Pop!
Jughead returns to work after pop mailed him a termination letter because the envelope says to return in five days.
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The Wrong and Short of It

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Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews
You want to join the football team!
Archie joins the football team
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Signs of the Times

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Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Archie Andrews
Did Jughead make the sign for the P.T.A meeting tonight?
Archie has to make a sign for the P.T.A meeting on juvenile delinquents
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No Noise Is Good Noise

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Waldo Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
G'wan! You're nuts!
Mr. Weatherbee wants the boys to be quiet for anti-noise Week.
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Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
Betty, do you have to contradict everything I say?
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Tooth of the Matter

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Ready to go fishing, Jughead?
Jughead has to get a tooth extracted
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Plague Take It

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Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
You're a beast!
Betty is angry with Archie because he treats her like an old shoe.
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Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
No kidding? You took that new doll for a taxi ride through the park?
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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

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Waldo Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Geraldine Grundy
Archie, would you mind running an errand for me?
Mr. Weatherbee needs Archie to pick up notary seal. Archie comes back with a live seal.
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Cold Shoulder

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Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Mm-mm-ff! That new chick is slick!
Reggie tries to pick up a new girl and she gives him the cold shoulder.
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Watch the Beardie!

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Greetings, gate! Wither away?
Jughead tells Archie that he's going to the art museum to draw beards and mustaches on some of the pictures.
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Charge of the Light Brigade

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Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
Of all the tight fisted penny pinching nickel nursing cheap skates, he takes the cake!
Mr. Smith from the school board complains about the high electric bills at Riverdale High
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Sour Note

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Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Why is Jughead like a musical instrument?
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Spike Work

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Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
I thought I'd drop in to let you know how Archie was progressing!
When Miss Grundy visits Archie's house he pours her a cup of hot brandy sauce instead of tea by mistake
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Of Debts or Dates

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Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate
United we stand, divided we fall!
Reggie and Archie decide they're tired of spending all their money on dates so they tell Betty and Veronica that they will have to ask the boys out and pay for the date.
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Vase the Matter

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Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews
And stay out!!
Archie gets kicked out by Mr. Lodge after breaking an expensive vase.
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Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Boy! At the circus there's a kid who jumps on a horse, slips underneath, grabs its tail and winds up on the horse's neck!
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Weight and See!

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Geraldine Grundy
S'matter, Arch? Isn't your scale working at home?
Archie gets a fortune from a scale that tells him he will go down in history.
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Art for Art's Ache!

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Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
La vie Parisiene!
Jughead joins an art class and paints a picture of Miss Grundy.
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Life Is Just a Bolo of Cherries

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Archie may visit with you only so long as he stays out of trouble!
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Strictly Business

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Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
Pop, can I have a dollar?
Fred wants Archie to earn his own money
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Stop Paying 89¢ Each for Song Parade Records!

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Song Parade Co.
Dean Martin (caricature)
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Smart Hint to "Santa" New U.S. Royal Middleweight Bike Tires

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