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Issue: Archie Annual Digest #38
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Radio Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/17/1981
Volume: none
Pages: 132
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000699204
Price: $0.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 41 (33 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #188.
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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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humorous, teen
No, Archie! That's not the safety poster I had in mind!
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Redrawn from the cover of Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #19.
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Inside front cover.
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The Rising Son

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humorous, teen
Officer Pete; Andy
There is nothing like a good, dependable alarm clock to wake one up in the morning!...
Archie can't seem to wake up during the weekdays.
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Includes indicia at bottom of first page.
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The Final Curtain

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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
And the song and dance man will tap his way to your heart!
When Archie is cast as a turn-of-the-century song-and-dance man in the school musical, he keeps his costume, straw hat and cane with him at all times, and his obsessive dancing leads to a lot of people getting hurt.
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humorous, teen
Groan!
Archie's father appears ill around April 15th.
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Flatter Chatter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Miss Robin
Li'l Jinx!
Jinx tries to butter up her teacher.
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Gym Dandies

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humorous, teen
Nice, Arch! Nice!
With Archie injured, Riverdale's chances of winning the gymnastics meet are gone, until Dilton takes his place.
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Skull Isle Maze

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teen
Archie is looking for the pirate's treasure on Skull Isle!
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Maze puzzle.
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humorous, teen
Wearing a bandana in school?
Miss Haggly can't find her wig.
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Voodoo

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humorous, teen
Boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!
Betty plays a voodoo drum that gives her bad luck.
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Mite and Maim

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero, teen
Long Tom; Mayor Slade; The Octopus; Willy
Save some for me, Long Tom!
Betty and Veronica take a picture of the Octopus assaulting Mayor Slade and must be rescued by Pureheart the Powerful.
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teen
How is Moose making out with that job we got for him?
Moose got fired from his job for not remembering a telephone number.
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humorous, informational, teen
Burro Bill
Carry on! Thar's gold in them thar hills!
K.O. takes Katy prospecting with Burro Bill. Burro Bill can smell 14k. Not the gold kind, the eating kind.
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A Smash Hit!

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childrens, humorous
Wheeee
Li'l Jinx crashes her wagon.
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Dog Tired

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Put on your dancing shoes tonight Archie!... I bought Ronnie the latest album by the Bed Bugs, called "Itching to Please!"
For her birthday, Archie gives Veronica a stray dog he rescued. But the dog wrecks Veronica's party chasing her new cat.
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How do you like my new bumper sticker?
Reggie shows off his new bumper sticker.
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The Civil War

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typeset
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non-fiction
CIVIL WAR!
A brief article about the U.S. Civil War with an accompanying illustration.
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A Fishy Story

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childrens, humorous
Superintendent Smith
I'm sorry I was late for the meeting, gentlemen...
Little Archie and Little Reggie skip school to go fishing.
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Credits from the reprint in World of Archie Double Digest (2010 series) (Archie) #87, no credits listed in this digest.
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humorous, teen
It's the principal! He's home in bed.... Ill!
Mr. Weatherbee is home sick.
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Hello, Hello...

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childrens, humorous
Russ, do you mean this tin can phone you built will work?
Li'l Jinx and Russ play with a tin-can telephone.
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The Deadly Game Part One

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drama, humorous, teen
Dave
What do you want to do today, Jug? You want to take in a movie?
Archie and Jughead find a bag of white powder in a trash can. They take it to Archie's dad for advice about what to do and he sends them to the police station, but before they get there they are arrested for drug possession by two policemen who were trailing them.
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Part One of a two-part story. Second part contained later in this issue.
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Bore Flaw!

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Humph! I don't get it! Everyone says I'm boring!
Everybody says Charley is boring.
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This article says you shouldn't do any hard work after eating!
Archie reads that hard work after eating is a bad thing.
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Dandy Day

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humorous, teen
Miss Farnsby
Look, Mr. Weatherbee! I'm ten minutes late for class!
Mr. Weatherbee declares a day where students are encouraged to misbehave and Archie still can't follow instructions.
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Many Slap Happy Returns

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I'm all a-flutter! Hurry, girls! I've been hinting to Mr. Weatherbee all week!
Miss Grundy bakes Mr. Weatherbee a birthday cake.
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About a Bout

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What happened to you, L'il Jinx?
Li'l Jinx follows her dad's advice on how to fight, but it doesn't work out well.
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French Fracas

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humorous, teen
Yé-Yé; Marcel; Pierre; Jacques
This time the French have gone too far!
A pretty exchange student from France has entranced all the boys and Veronica rallies the girls to put a stop to her.
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Bawww!
Veronica doesn't like her measurements using the metric system.
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Machine Rage

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Mr. Svenson has been asked to fix the broken vending machine too many times and has decided to do something about it.
Put the numbered letters into the corresponding numbered blanks to find out what Svenson thinks of the vending machine he has to fix.
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Letter-number substitution puzzle.
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Brain Drain!

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Humph! This math homework is rough!
Li'l Jinx sends Charley to find Russ.
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The Prize

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Lawn bowling! What a great idea, Ronnie! Only I hope your father won't mind!
Archie accidentally ruins Mr. Lodge's prize geraniums while lawn bowling, so Mr. Lodge uses Archie and Jughead as pins.
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Quick Review

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How was the movie, kids?
Archie tells Mr. Lodge about the movie that he saw with Veronica.
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Homework Helper

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Which one of you boys is going to carry this book home for me after school?
Miss Grundy teaches Little Archie how to deal with a bully.
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Ride Chide

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humorous, teen
Whoa boy!
Veronica's horse throws Archie off.
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Take One Giant Stoop

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humorous, teen
Bruce; O. O. Wellenmellen
Sure nice of your dad, Ron, to let us use his private beach here at Dunesville!
Separated from the gang while on a beach picnic, Reggie is terrified by evidence of a giant -- actually props for a movie being filmed on location. When he conceitedly tries to talk himself into a movie role, the director hires him for an Egyptian epic, then binds him mouth and body with mummy wrappings.
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The Deadly Game Part Two

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drama, humorous, teen
Dave
This is the continuing story in which Archie and his pal, Jug, were found with a bag of narcotics in their possession!
At the police station, Archie and Jughead try to convince the cops that they are not using or selling drugs. Archie's dad arrives to vouch for him and the police explain how they can't always tell from appearances who is or is not a drug user. The boys are released and discuss the problem of drug abuse with Mr. Andrews on the way home.
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Part Two of a two-part story, continued from earlier in this issue.
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Dangerous Mission

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science fiction, teen
XL9
Robot XL9, do you understand your mission?
A robot probe sent by an alien race to investigate the human race encounters Archie and the gang.
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The author misspells baseball great Jimmie Foxx's name as Jimmy Fox.
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Betty, the doctor put my father on a special weight-reduction program!
The doctor put Archie's father on a diet.
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From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
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Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine
Archie, where are you?
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Advertisement for Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1977 series) #18.
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Inside back cover.
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Little Archie Comics Digest Annual Magazine
First in entertainment!
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Advertisement for Little Archie Comics Digest Annual Magazine (Archie, 1979 series) #8.
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