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Issue: Archie's Madhouse #64
Publication Date: October 1968
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Issues: #64 of 66 Issues (71 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: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 28 (13 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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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hey fellows, we can play! I found a basketball!
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Disclose Notes: Mad House is the series title on the cover.
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First Line: Here's A Whole Treasure Chest of Fun
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the following products from Honor House: ventriloquism instructions; model naval cannon; martial arts instructions; onion gum; trick baseball; x-ray specs; magic cards; surprise package; boomerang; smoke bomb; monster-size skeleton; imitation bullet holes; secret book safe; jack pot bank; skin head wig; joy buzzer; moneymaker; monster size monsters.
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Our Monster is Hip. Oh, Where Did We Slip?

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dr. Krankenstein; Ludwig; Krankenstein's monster
First Line: Yes, Ludwig! The most fearsome monster of all time is aobut to be made!
Synopsis: A Frankenstein-type monster has the brain of a maniac, but the heart of a hippie.
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Go-Powerful Cheerios Kid

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First Line: Most powerful airplane
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for General Mills' Cheerios cereal, featuring a model airplane premium.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lippy the Hippy
Character(s): Guru Maharini
First Line: Sigh! If only I could visit my favorite guru! He'd have all the answers!
Synopsis: Lippy goes to great lengths to visit India's #1 guru.
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First Line: 6 hairpieces-in-one!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for hairpieces from Go Go Tail.
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First Line: Missile firing tank
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a 6-foot model tank from Honor House.
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Button Glutton

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Genres: humorous
First Line: We're too cheap to give you real buttons, but we've done the next best thing - cut out these Mad House buttons, paste them on cardboard, pin them on yourself and you'll have become a...
Synopsis: Mad House buttons with snappy sayings (i.e., "Don't be a dropout if you're flying an airplane").
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad House Hall of Fame
Character(s): Professor Von Hipstein; Rama Llama; Norbert Gurney
First Line: Professor Von Hipstein has invented the wildest and grooviest discotheque light machine of all time!
Synopsis: Three notable members of the Madhouse Hall of Fame.
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Pen Pals As You Imagine Them and As They Really Are...

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Genres: humorous
First Line: You've all seen those listings where pen pals describe themselves! Well, Mad House takes you behind the scenes and reveals the difference between...
Synopsis: Pen pals revealed.
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Disclose Notes: The pen pals shown are reading "Li'l Jinx Pen Pals," Archie Comics, Pep Comics, and Laugh Comics. Written in various locations on the page are "Lock it to me!" and "Shock it to me!", parodies of the Laugh-In catch phrase "Sock it to me!"
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Guess Which One
First Line: ...Just joined the group!
Synopsis: Three easy guesses.
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Fun's-A-Poppin' Saturdays on CBS

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Character(s): Go-Go Gophers [Running Board; Ruffled Feather]; Sylvester; Penelope Pitstop; Rock Slag; Gravel Slag; Professor Pat Pending; Tiny Gruesome; Bela Gruesome; Dick Dastardly; Muttley
First Line: Hey, gang, the fun starts here!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the 1968 Saturday morning cartoon line-up on CBS Television, including: The Go-Go Gophers; The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Hour; Wacky Races; The Archie Show; The Batman-Superman Hour; The Herculoids; Shazzan!; Johnny Quest; Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor; The Lone Ranger.
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Martian Mirth

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Unnamed Martian; Unnamed grocer
First Line: That Martian bought every light bulb in the store!
Synopsis: What does a martian need light bulbs for?
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Feature(s): Archie's Groovy Stationery
First Line: Archie groovy stationery kit "write" this way...
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a set of Archies-themed stationery.
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Group Scoop or "You Got Plenty of Nutting"!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Zappy Zippers
First Line: I think your group is the grooviest I've ever heard!
Synopsis: A rock group tries to find a unique look for themselves.
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Brake it Up!

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Genres: teen
First Line: Gee, Veronica, when you're near I only have eyes for you!
Synopsis: Archies's life is saved due to Bendix Brakes.
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for bicycle brakes from Bendix.
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First Line: Stamp collectors! Look at this exciting offer from Zenith!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for stamps from Zenith Co.
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Doze Pose

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Rod the Mod
Character(s): Rod the Mod
First Line: Don't bug me, Alice!
Synopsis: Rod the Mod has trouble falling asleep.
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First Line: E-l-e-c-t-r-i-c split level, fully furnished doll house with complete doll family
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for dolls, doll house and accessories from Honor House.
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First Line: It's the longest hip huggin hairdos
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for hairpieces from M. D. Industries.
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Rare Hair or The Eraser Is Mightier Than The Razor

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Clyde Did-It Presents
Synopsis: Reverse vandalism.
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The Green Scene "Don't Sit on My Sitar"

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Genres: humorous
First Line: The guru has come to help you with all your problems!
Synopsis: What does "Krishna Shama" mean?
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Cool Combo or The Iceman Cometh

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Zippy and the Zappers
First Line: Our rock 'n' roll combo has come up with the gimmick to end all gimmicks...
Synopsis: The band comes up with the latest gimmick - playing basketball while playing their instruments.
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Ape Jape

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Unnamed ape-men
First Line: Heh! Heh! We giant apemen of Pluto have destroyed Mars completely!
Synopsis: Ape-men decide to invade planet Earth.
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Chase Case or "Take a Madhouse Reader to Lunch Next Week"

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Clyde Did-It
First Line: They're terrible! Tell the Matadors they're fired!
Synopsis: Clyde finds an unusual way to fire an untalented rock group.
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Feature(s): Archie Quarter Comics
First Line: Get in the groove for a giant size fun-in!
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Disclose Notes: Pencils previously credited to Gus Lemoine.
Advertisement for the following Archie quarter comics: Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #20; Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #48; The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #49; Archie's Madhouse Annual (Archie, 1962 series) #6; Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #153, #154, #155, #156, #157, #158 (accidentally listed as #151).
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First Line: If you missed this... get this
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for courses offered by International Correspondences Schools.
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First Line: Boys, girls, men, women
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Christmas card sales kit from Wallace Brown.
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