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Issue: Archie's Madhouse #34
Publication Date: August 1964
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Issues: #34 of 66 Issues (71 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/01/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Inker(s): ? (border)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ? (border)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Clyde Didit
First Line: Señor, I think he wants you to chase him!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: First appearance of the Mad House cover border, a ripoff of the Mad Magazine border which would run in one form or another until the title changed names.
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Table of Nonsense

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Clyde Didit
First Line: If that magazine doesn't have you in stitches, I will!
Synopsis: A collection of puns about surgery and the table of contents.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Has a similar, but not identical border as the cover.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Teen Section
First Line: Have you got troubles?
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Pages: 1
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Super-Eye Guy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Professor Transistor; Lennie
Synopsis: The Professor's nephew Lennie uses experimental eye-drops to give himself x-ray vision. He overdoses on the solution and gives himself such powerful x-ray vision that his life becomes a nightmare.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The plot is highly-derivative of the 1963 Ray Milland movie "X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes."
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Rocket Belts for Teens

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Genres: humorous, science fiction
Synopsis: How life will change when all teens get their own rocket-belts.
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Pages: 3
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Mad House Summer Jobs for Teens

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Synopsis: Mad House summer jobs include caddying for caddies, trading stamp paster-inner, paper and pencil seller to flirting girls, and girl watching.
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): The Mad House Sports Section
First Line: If you can't play a sport--then be a sport!
Synopsis: Various unfortunate athletic situations.
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Pages: 1
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Goofy Golf

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Synopsis: A Mad House twisted look at golf.
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Pages: 3
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Mad House Sports Equipment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): A Mad House Sportacular
Synopsis: Mad House sports equipment includes twin surfing boards, a bowling ball for bowling perfect scores, fake casts for skiers, a flub club for golf, a cement-mixer for football players, pogo sticks for basketball players, polo played with motor scooters, ear plugs for umpires, and ladders for badminton players.
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All Boob Team

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Doak Boanhead; Ezra Flubber; Joe Klunk; Clyde Martian; Chuck Gooch; Harry Noodnik
Synopsis: To prevent baseball's worst players from feeling hurt, Mad House creates its own all-boob baseball team.
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): TV Section
First Line: Sorry. We have temporarily lost the pictures in our pages!
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No-Gun Jonesy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Character(s): No-Gun Jonesy; Kid Blackie
Synopsis: The adventures of No-Gun Jonesy, the only cowboy who doesn't carry a gun.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unidentified cameos of Bat Masterson and Zorro in the introduction.
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Ads for Legal Lads

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parody ads for lawyers for film, correspondence school, and soap.
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Pages: 2
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Clyde Didit Did It Again!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Archie's Mad House Annual
Character(s): Ronald the Rubber Boy; Captain Sprocket; Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch; Hilda the Witch; Professor Transistor; Salem; Clyde Didit (mentioned)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie's Mad House Annual with mail-in coupon. Cover is depicted, along with original art of the characters. The promo text is printed upside-down.
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Sign Language

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, science fiction
Synopsis: Aliens can't find anyone who can understand them. They think they've solved their problem when they see the letters on an optometrist's eye chart.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Liven Up Your Laughin'

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica Summer Fun
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Promo for Betty and Veronica Summer Fun #28 with mail-in coupon. Cover is depicted, along with original art with a cooking theme.

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