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Issue: Archie's Joke Book Magazine #73
Publication Date: September 1963
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Issues: #73 of 277 Issues (282 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 29 (23 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: All story information taken with permission from Tony Isabella's blog http://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2016/06/july-1963-archies-jokebook-magazine-73.html
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched (some squarebound?)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley
First Line: Archie, I thought you said you were going to pitch today!
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Do You Need Extra Money?

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Feature(s): Cheerful Card Company
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Fashion Passion

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Archie and Reggie are digging the lovely chicks on the beach while waiting for Betty and Veronica. When the girls apologize for keeping them waiting, the boys reward them with a couple of ice-cream cones.
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Mexican Vacation

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Archie and the gang visit an Aztec pyramid.
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Stage Door Johnny-Come-Lately

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Feature(s): Jughead
Character(s): Jughead Jones
Synopsis: The boys are shocked to see Jughead wearing a suit and buying flowers. They never knew he was interested in girls. He enters the stage door of a theater advertising “Follies!” and “Girls! Girls! Girls!” Jug is there to give flowers to his Aunt Jenny, the cleaning woman of the theater.
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Swell Yell

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Feature(s): Dilton Doiley
Character(s): Dilton Doiley; Jane
Synopsis: Dilton has been trying to tell Jane something for over an hour.
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Swing It, Man!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Archie and Reggie are playing on Leroy’s swing to the amusement of the girls. What the girls don’t know is that, when they swing high enough, they can ogle the sun-bathing beauty in the next yard.
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Auto Know Better

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Veronica
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis: Veronica was driving and got into an accident. Her father isn’t worried about the car, just that she left the scene of the accident. She says she didn’t, pointing to the fence, hat and sign stuck to the front of the car. She brought the accident with her!
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Billy Wins with Bendix

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Archie Wind-Up Dolls

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Genres: teen
Synopsis: A selection of dolls based on Archie characters. If you wind up the Archie doll, it dates the nearest girl doll. Don’t bother to wind up the Jughead doll because it doesn’t do anything.
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Fulfilling Future

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Feature(s): Veronica
Character(s): Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Veronica’s using summer to plan her future, which includes going to the beach to meet new boys she can date in the fall and winter.
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Profiles in Courage

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge is showing Archie the portraits of the Lodge military hero ancestors. One painting shows a man peeping out from the border. That ancestor was a spy for the Confederate army.
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Figuratively Speaking

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats
Synopsis: Archie asks Coach Kleats how the team is shaping up. The coach says they can’t field or hit too well and probably won’t win a game all season.
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A Zest for Rest

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Jughead
Character(s): Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Jughead loves tiddlywinks because it’s the only sport he can play lying down.
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Placement Service

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge; Leroy
Synopsis: Veronica asks Moose to keep an eye on her young cousin Leroy. When Leroy refuses to stay put, Moose sticks him to the beach by putting a beach umbrella pole down the lad’s swimming trunks.
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Nile Nillies

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Alice
Synopsis: Betty’s friend Alice has a Cleopatra hairdo inspired by the movie.
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Archie's Scrambled Jokes

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Archie's Jokes #22

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Gumming Up the Works

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Feature(s): Jughead
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Synopsis: Jughead searches for his gum at a bowling alley.
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Slick Hicks

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Archie and Jughead don't want to look like beginners with the surfing crowd. The life preservers around their waists blows their cover.
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Our Inquiring Photographer Asks: What Do You Think of Television Commercials?

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Moose Mason; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
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Delightful Eyeful

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Resting under a tree, Reggie isn’t fazed as a two-headed dog, an outer-space alien, a man so tall you only see half of him and Frankenstein’s monster. What gets his attention is a sexy brunette wearing a beret and a tight little black dress.
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It Pays to Advertise

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Pop Tate
Character(s): Pop Tate
Synopsis: When business is slow, Pop goes to woods full of trees carved with lovers hearts and messages...and carves an ad for his store on one of them.
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Man of Action

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Sitting in a hammock, Archie explains why he’s too tired to go swimming. It’s because his heart beat 102,000 times today, his blood traveled 169,000 miles, he took breath 22,000 times, he spoke 4,700 words, he moved 748 muscles and used 7,100,000 brain cells. No wonder he’s exhausted.
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Moose Speaks Up

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Feminology

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Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Dilton Doiley
Synopsis: Dilton is showing the girls “the smartest electronic machine ever constructed!”
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Repeat Treat

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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Veronica tells Betty she shouldn't repeat gossip.
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Operation Rescue

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
Synopsis: Veronica beseeches a lifeguard to save Archie...from Betty!
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