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Issue: Archie's Pal Jughead #31
Publication Date: August 1955
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Issues: #31 of 125 Issues (130 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: 06/10/1955
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 25 (22 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Comics Code Authority seal is displayed prominently. No brand is shown on the cover. A blurb at the bottom of the first page reads: "Always look for the Archie Series emblem" which isn't on the cover of this comic. On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US, then Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie's Pal Jughead
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
First Line: 60¢ for a bacon and tomato sandwich! That's robbery, Pop!
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Larceny and Old Lace

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Aunt Martha
First Line: Uh, oh! Ol' Reggie's laying in wait for me!
Synopsis: Jughead dresses as an old woman to avoid paying back five bucks to Reggie. Reggie dresses up as an old man to get him back, but mistakes Archie's Aunt Martha for a disguised Jughead and she beats him with her purse.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
First Line: Hey, Betty! You're always reading about TV and screen stars!
Synopsis: Reggie jokes that what Liberace uses to washes his hands is soap.
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Very Curious

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: I heard you had a fight with Archie!
Synopsis: Jughead says curiosity broke up the friendship between him and Archie - Archie's curiosity about being paid back money Jughead owed him.
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One for the Book

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Moose
Character(s): Moose Mason; Archie Andrews
First Line: Well, that makes my sixteenth fight--
Synopsis: Archie quips that Moose keeps track of his fights in a scrap book.
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Safety Thirst!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
First Line: Daddy,---the boys and I are going to practise on the archery range!
Synopsis: Jughead and Archie are such bad archers that Mr. Lodge moves where he won't be hit, in front of the target.
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In Issue: FlagLaugh Comics Digest #8 published January 1977
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
First Line: The newest and funniest yet!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Annual #7 with mail-in coupon. Premium is a free 1956 Archie Pin-Up calendar. Both annual cover and calendar are depicted, along with original art.
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High and Frighty

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Archie! Veronica did her solo this morning and got her flying license!
Synopsis: Jughead is so afraid of flying he has to be tied up to get on board Veronica's plane.
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Hastily Yours

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee
First Line: Who is running in the hallway???
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee stops Archie and Jughead from running in the school hallways, until they say they were trying to be first in line for goulash in the cafeteria. Then he runs too, ahead of them.
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Sleeping Duty

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Miss Grundy
First Line: Ole amigos! Y'all set for the costume brawl this P.M.?
Synopsis: Everyone covers for Jughead while he sleeps, so that he can be alert during the party. He sleeps through the party, his costume being a patient on a gurney.
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In Issue: FlagLaugh Comics Digest #8 published January 1977
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Stamp collecting, Archie?
Synopsis: Jughead's hobby is collecting dust (while he sleeps).
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In Issue: FlagLaugh Comics Digest #8 published January 1977
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Pages: 0.2
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The Great Hunger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
First Line: Jughead lolled on the sand at the beach, his eyes closed.
Synopsis: Jughead spends all day trying to get enough money for a hot dog, not knowing that Archie had left five dollars in Jughead's pocket because his own pockets had holes.
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In Content Item: FlagArchie Annual Digest #31 published January 1977
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A-Loan To-Gather

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Well, well -- if it isn't the happiness boys in person!
Synopsis: Pop tells Archie and Reggie that Jughead has between 98 and 100 dollars. When Jughead says he has no money to loan them, Pop explains that between 98 and 100 dollars is only two dollars.
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Women's Rights

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
First Line: Look, Jug to be popular you've got to understand girls...watch this!
Synopsis: Betty won't let Reggie carry her books home because afterward he'll want to stay and watch television. She immediately lets Archie carry her books.
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Bank Book

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy
First Line: Will you two carry these "successful career" books down to the library!
Synopsis: Jughead's uncle refused a job as bank president, because if he started at the top he would have no room to advance.
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A Woman's World

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Pat Smith; Mary Ann
First Line: Let me see your new doll, Mary Ann!
Synopsis: Mary Ann doesn't want Pat's dirty hands on her doll. When Pat saves the doll from a runaway buggy, Mary Ann reminds him not to put his dirty hands on her doll.
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Grape Gripe

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones
First Line: Doc, I'd like to talk to you about my diet problem!
Synopsis: Jughead goes to the doctor because he's eating grapes off the wallpaper.
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Quiz Whiz

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Time for our history quiz, class!
Synopsis: Jughead knows where the Declaration of Independence was signed - on the bottom.
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Watt's Cookin'?

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones
First Line: Yes sir?
Synopsis: Jughead wants two watt light bulbs, but the salesperson wants to know "two what?"
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It's For Real

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Mr. Dripwaite
First Line: Oh Mr. Dripwaite!
Synopsis: Mr. Dripwaite loves Wilbur's framed artwork, but when Wilbur tries to display it out front, as requested, the artwork is only a crack in the plaster.
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Character(s): Betty Cooper
First Line: Archie Series comics are clean and wholesome
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie publications featuring Betty swooning over the Archie titles.
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The Light That Failed!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
First Line: Veronica! You don't have to stake out a claim!
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge is going to pay someone to install an antique lamppost in the front lawn. Archie volunteers to do it for less money and Mr. Lodge's good graces. Jughead offers to do it for Archie for nothing, since he already has an antique lamp. His lamp is an antique table lamp, not a lamppost, so Jughead decides that Archie should take all the credit.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
First Line: My cousin has a strong, masculine face, a fighter's build, and a voice like Pinza.....and no dates!
Synopsis: Jughead's masculine cousin is named Alice.
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Age Before Beauty

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Today we will continue our study of Shakespeare!
Synopsis: Jughead tells Miss Grundy that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would be most famous for his age.
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Mistaken Identity

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
First Line: Hey Jug! It's only the second day of school and you're massaging blackboards already?
Synopsis: Jughead stays after class washing blackboards because he was told to call the teachers' names, but he understood that he was to call the teachers names.
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