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Issue: Archie Annual Digest #30
Publication Date: January 1977
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Issues: #30 of 43 Issues (61 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Archie Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000699204
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 37 (30 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Digest size
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Arch --- I don't think your painting is going to get a good grade!!
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Love-In

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Archie! I didn't know you had such talent! That's absolutely incredibly terrific!
Synopsis: After getting pranked by Reggie, Archie is mad but Jughead tells him he needs to use peace instead of anger. But first you have to get Reggie's attention.
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Auto Suggestion

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Hey, Pop! Okay if I borrow your car tonight?
Synopsis: Archie gets mad when Mr. Lodge and Smithers insult his dad's car.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: I dropped Anthony Adverse!
Synopsis: Archie tries not to cause a distraction in the library.
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Reprint Notes: From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
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Pages: 1
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The Catered Affair

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: When I got down to the nitty gritty, Jug, I had no choice! My allowance is like from nowhere with this high cost of living!... It was work or drop out of everything!
Synopsis: To make extra money, Archie gets a job with a catering company. But when he has to make a delivery to Veronica's house, he doesn't want Veronica to see him looking like the hired help. So Jughead promises to deliver all the food for him without eating any of it.
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Disclose Notes: In an early example of in-story product placement, a fence on page 2 has an ad ("Young n' Free") that appears in full elsewhere in the issue.
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Labor of Love

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: The Archies group, like chicken soup, will cure whatever ails ya! Our songs are loud, we please the crowd, our music never fails ya!
Synopsis: The discotheque that the Archies are playing at is robbed.
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Disclose Notes: Betty and Veronica are not yet members of the Archies at this time.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Jughead! Take this wastebasket out and empty it!
Synopsis: Jughead gets locked out of the school.
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An Ear for Music

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: And now, cool cats, a word form one of our many sponsors on WPOW!
Synopsis: Archie and Jughead play their music incredibly loud, even accidentally piping it through the school's public address system. They don't recognize, however, that it bothers the older folks.
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Dress Dilemma

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mr. Finque
First Line: Mr. Finque, it's the most fabulously beautiful creation that was ever created! It's super gorgeous! It's... It's... It leaves me speechless!!
Synopsis: Betty buys a dress. She meets Veronica. Veronica drops hints that the dress is a bad purchase without seeing the dress. Betty returns it. Veronica spies on her making her next purchase. And the circle starts again.
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Disclose Notes: When reprinted in B&V Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #236, writing is credited to George Gladir and inks are credited to Vince DeCarlo.
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Handy Puzzle

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First Line: You'll get a big hand when you get these correct!
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Disclose Notes: Top 3/5 of page is a puzzle with definitions of words that start with the letters h-a-n-d. The bottom 2/5 is a rebus puzzle.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Archie! Where did you get those handbills?
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee is concerned about Archie's social science project.
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A Very Lodge Problem

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Hink Brinkley; Murphy
First Line: Good evening, ladies and gentlement! This is Hink Brinkley, speaking to you from Riverdale, U.S.A.!
Synopsis: TV host Hink Brinkley proclaims Archie Andrews "America's most lovable teen-ager." Mr. Lodge recalls some reasons why he doesn't think Archie is lovable, and then reveals his own personal alternative to a bomb shelter: an underground "Archie shelter."
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Disclose Notes: Original printing had a feature object of Life With Archie.
The flashbacks in this story are taken from earlier Archie scripts, though all the art is new. Scripts re-used in flashback include "Reader's Choice" (Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #114) and "Weights and Measures" (Archie (Archie, 1959 series #130).
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Lunk
First Line: Lunk! You're going to be late for school!
Synopsis: Miss Grundy gives student Lunk a ride to school.
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The Egyptian

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: The Great Pyramid... at Gizeh, Egypt!
Synopsis: In ancient Egypt, the lovely peasant girl Bettapeni warns her beloved Captain of the guards Archierunatdames of a plot to poison the Pharaoh, cooked up by the evil Grand Vizier Reggileptimen and the Queen's handmaiden Veronicapet.
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Disclose Notes: A takeoff on the ancient Egypt craze sparked by the then-recent movie "Cleopatra."
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Uncle Burt Is Back

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Genres: adventure, childrens
Character(s): Uncle Burt
First Line: Several miles from Riverdale, in the bustling port city of Walmouth, a salt-encrusted, weather-beaten old freighter comes in to berth
Synopsis: Mary's brother Burt, a sailor, comes to visit. Little Archie is fascinated by Burt's stories of seafaring adventure, and starts to consider his father un-heroic by comparison. But a trip to the new dam shows Little Archie that his dad has an unexpected capacity for heroism.
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Archie On the Road

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First Line: Archie took a car trip and ran into a detour.
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Birthday Blues

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: "Archie, you haven't forgotten, have you?" Veronica asked.
Synopsis: Veronica says that Archie has forgotten a birthday, so Archie scrambles to find money to buy Veronica a birthday present. Jughead helps by convincing Mr. Andrews to give him five dollars. It turns out it wasn't Veronica's birthday Archie forgot, but his father's. Jughead again uses his skill at talking to work a proper exchange of the present for something suitable for Mr. Andrews.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I can't get a boy to take these books up to Miss Grundy!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee brings books to Miss Grundy.
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A Switch In Time

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First Line: Poor Archie! He's been looking lower than an Eskimo's ear lobe!
Synopsis: Reggie pretends to be Archie and Archie pretends to be Reggie until five o'clock.
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Ceiling Zero

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mousemeat
First Line: Ulp!
Synopsis: Miss Grundy thinks Martians have invaded, but it's only Jughead making tiny paper airplanes. Mr. Weatherbee discovers another airplane, with a note to meet in the park. He goes to the park to see who threw the airplane and he is injuged in the middle of an actual airplane crash.
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Disclose Notes: Miss Grundy's hair flies off more than once in her excitement, a rare indication that her hair is actually a wig.
Original printing had a feature logo of Archie's Pal, Jughead.
Original printing included George Frese's signature (signed as Geo Frese); removed in this printing.
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Word to the Wise

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Rocky
First Line: He was mugged on the way to school?
Synopsis: Archie reinvents himself as a guru... white hair, tattered clothes and all. The girls are impressed, but Mr. Weatherbee has Moose and Rocky toss Archie into a cold shower.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: We're ready for Jughead and Archie to play "The Carnival of Venice"!
Synopsis: Jughead and Archie are having trouble with their music.
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The Organizer

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mr. Nevins; Mr. Sidney; General Bludgut
First Line: Glorious sight!
Synopsis: When Reggie overhears Archie and Betty discussing how to honor Riverdale's oldest living war hero, he thinks they're talking about him, so he steps in to take over the planning of the event.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: The principal bought it!... An electric vibrating chair!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee buys an electric vibrating chair for the teachers' lounge.
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Root of All Evil

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Noname
First Line: Noname, you're lucky you're a dog and not bothered by money!...
Synopsis: Archie refuses to let Veronica pay for tickets to the school basketball game.
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The Jokers

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Testing! One, two, three..?
Synopsis: Veronica puts black paper over her front teeth to play a gag on Archie. Archie gets payback by playing a trick on the girls using glasses of water.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Where's the camera club meeting?
Synopsis: Archie and the boys are photographing a model in the school swimming pool.
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Pirates

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Genres: adventure, childrens, fantasy
Character(s): un-named inventor; James; un-named pirates; Captain Morgan; un-named sailors
First Line: Ye'd better turn into a top notch cabin boy right quick or ol' Blackbeard will be makin' ye into shark-bait, he will!
Synopsis: When gas escapes from a mysterious old man's "invention," it transports Little Archie hundreds of years back in time, where he is captured by pirates and forced to be a cabin boy on Blackbeard's ship. On the pirate ship, Little Archie overhears Blackbeard's plan to destroy the ship of the king's favorite, Captain Morgan. Can he stop the pirates, and will he ever get back to his own time?
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Spotty Strikes Back

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Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: You told your awful Spotty to chase my kitty, Caramel, up a tree!
Synopsis: After Spotty chases Caramel up a tree, Betty forces Little Archie to help her cat get down.
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Disclose Notes: Reprinted in Little Archie: The House That Wouldn't Move (Archie, 2007 series) #[nn], where it was mistakenly credited to Bob Bolling.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Miss Beazly, will you send up a pot of tea, please?
Synopsis: Miss Beazly goes overboard showing respect.
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Mother's Little Helper

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Money?...Is that what you asked for?...Money?...I've heard the word!...
Synopsis: Fred tells Archie he can have the ten dollars he wants if he makes his mother's life easier.
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The Careful One

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): school nurse; student
First Line: Guess who's gonna be careful?
Synopsis: Archie determines to be extra careful in school, but never notices the havoc his presence is inadvertently wreaking.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from the reprint in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #57.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Lunk
First Line: Da - hey! Y'punk! Y'knocked my corn muffin on da floor!
Synopsis: Lunk cleans up in his own way.
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Pages: 1
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Feature(s): Laugh Comics Digest
First Line: It'll be one big laugh after another, when you order Laugh Comics Digest No. 10
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #10
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine
First Line: Looking for something different?
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #2.
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