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Issue: Laugh Comics #117
Publication Date: December 1960
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Issues: #117 of 381 Issues (401 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
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Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/15/1960
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 15 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, 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: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Miss Grundy; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Betty, in geometry always think of the triangle!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Redrawn from the cover of Pep Comics #78
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The Fresh Kid!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis: Archie insults his mother's cooking and stalks out of the house. Furious, his father goes after him, only to find that it was a ploy for Archie to be able to remind him of his wedding anniversary.
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Pages: 6
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Encore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Archie complains that Reggie is always showing off with handstands.
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Pages: 0.5
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Candid Comment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Archie stands up to Moose. And lands in the hospital.
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Pages: 0.5
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Adult Reading!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Shrimpy; Daphne
Synopsis: Shrimpy can't wait until he can read grown-up books.
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Pages: 0.5
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Counting the Stars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Daphne; Brando
Synopsis: Daphne is counting the stars. Brando offers to help.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Shrimpy" feature in Laugh Comics. The feature appears next in Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 Series) #68 (January 1961).
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Kanoe Kapers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Katy Keene; Randy van Ronson; Pierre
Synopsis: Randy and Pierre have a race across the lake. Randy uses his racing shell, while Pierre paddles his homemade birchbark canoe. A moose makes things interesting.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Fashions, etc., by Barbara Rausch (Flint, Mich.), and Kathleen Knippel (Lac DuFlambeau, Wis.)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Archie's Christmas Stocking
Character(s): Archie Andrews (cameo); Betty Cooper (cameo); Veronica Lodge (cameo)
First Line: There is a Santa Claus!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie's Christmas Stocking #10 with mail-in coupon. Page is an abstract design of Santa with a generic Christmas Stocking cover incorporated into the drawing.
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Snow Business!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Synopsis: Jinx has a new sled and can't wait for it to snow.
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Pages: 3.33
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Li'l Jinx Pen Pals
First Line: Hi, girls and boys!
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: List of 44 persons (ages 7 to 16) desiring pen pals. In addition to the United States, one name is from Canada.
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Heave Ho!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Reggie is thrown out of his girlfriends' houses in various manners.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: First prize of $5.00 to Wendy Boardman (Brooklyn, N.Y.) for article on the Earth's orbit. Second prize of $3.00 to Lynn Salant (Rockwood Park, N.Y.) for article on air. Third prize of $2.00 to Jean Kenazia (North Quincy, Mass.) for article on Afghan Hounds. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Brenda Maxwell (Decatur, Ala.) for paragraph on salt. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Terry Woods (Brookport, Ill.) for five jokes. Also head shots of the Archie gang using pre-published art.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Archie Club
Character(s): Archie Andrews (cameo)
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for memberships in the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 15 cents.
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Punctured Plans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate (cameo)
Synopsis: Reggie and Betty plot to get Archie and Veronica to wait at opposite sides of the park so they can take over as their dates. What they don't know is that Archie and Veronica's date was to donate blood at the local hospital.
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Pages: 6
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Well Done, Jane!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Chicago Roller Skates
Synopsis: Jane enters the State roller figure-skating meet and wins first place.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad in comic format for Chicago Roller Skates "Trophy" model. Part of a continuing series.

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