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Issue: The New Archies #2
Publication Date: January 1988
 
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Is Variant Variant: Canadian
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 02710006937901
Price: $0.95 CAD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
19 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: The Archies as junior high students.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Eugene; Amani
Gee, do you notice how dogs really love Jughead?
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You Don't Need Drugs...

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Archie Comics; Say "No" to Drugs
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Miss Grundy; Betty Cooper (cameo); Dilton Doiley (cameo); Reggie Mantle (cameo)
You don't need drugs...to deal with school problems...to be one of the group...to make new friends...to have fun!
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Inside front cover. Anti-drug PSA with tagline "You have a choice!! Say "No" to drugs!"
Talent Nightmare

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Eugene; Amani
The gang holds a talent show at Riverdale Junior High, but Reggie sabotages all the acts.
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Personalized "Sew-On" Patches!

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Archie Club
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge (cameo)
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Promo for Archie Club cloth patches, personally-embroidered with a first name. $3.00 each from Archie Comic Pub., 325 Fayette Ave., Mamaroneck, NY 10543.
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Archie Club News
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First prize of $6.00 to Erik Gunderson (La Crescent, Minn.) for an article on tigers. Second prize of $4.00 to Keith V. Bohoty (San Bernadino, Calif.) for a summary of his summer vacation to England.
Hot Dog Television Kviz

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Hot Dog
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Word puzzle about television.
Double Your Fun!

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Archie Double Digests
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
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Promo for subscriptions to Archie Double Digests. Six issues for $10.00.
Discount 32 Page Comic Subscriptions!

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Archie Comics
Archie Andrews
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Promo for subscriptions to Archie comics. Six issues for $3.00. Archie is dressed as a mail-carrier.
Sink the Sub

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Eugene; Amani; Moose Mason; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Miss Beazley; Hiram Lodge (cameo)
When a representative from the Book of World Records is in town, Archie and the gang try to make the world's largest sub sandwich.
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2 for One Dollar

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Archie Giant Series
Archie Andrews (as Santa Claus)
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Christmas-themed promo for Archie Giant Series #579 (Archie's Christmas Stocking) and #580 (Betty and Veronica's Christmas Spectacular). Mail-in coupon for both issues for $1.00.
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Archie's Checklist
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Step right up!
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Archie's Checklist with mail-in coupon for two comics for $1.00.
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Archie's Posters
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper (cameo); Veronica Lodge
Hang out with us!
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Promo for five wall posters of Archie characters available from Archie Comics.
Archie's Science Project

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Eugene; Amani; Miss Grundy
Archie buys some guppies for a science project.
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Subscribe and Save $1.75

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Archie Digests
Archie Andrews
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Promo for subscriptions to Archie Digests. Five issues for $5.00.
12 Hot Hits for a Cool Penny

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Columbia Record & Tape Club
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Illustrated ad for memberships in Columbia Record and Tape Club. Selections available in records, cassettes, or 8-track cartridges. Album covers depicted are: Whitney (Whitney Houston), Spanish Fly (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force), Let It Loose (Gloria Estifan), The Joshua Tree (U2), Bad Animals (Heart), Tango in the Night (Fleetwood Mac), Randy Rhoades Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne), Girls, Girls, Girls (Motley Crue), Licensed to Ill (Beastie Boys), Beverly Hills Cop II (soundtrack), Whitesnake; and Into the Fire (Bryan Adams).
News Blues

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Eugene; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Mr. Weatherbee; Mr. Svenson
Eugene is the editor of the school newspaper and sends Archie out to find a story. As usual, Archie is oblivious to everything happening around him, but he collides with two vandals trying to flee after lighting a stink bomb, causing them to be captured and him to be called a hero.
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Archie Fan Club
Archie Andrews
Fans! Now you can join the exciting Archie Fan Club
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Promo for membership in the Archie Fan Club. Cost is $3.00.
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Striped Chips Ahoy; Nabisco
What happens every time you bite into a Striped Chips Ahoy?
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Inside back cover. Ad for Striped Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies from Nabisco, featuring a scrambled word game.
The M & M's Quartz Watch

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M & M's; Mars
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Back cover. Parody of a movie poster, advertising M & M's wristwatches, available for $9.95 and three proofs of purchase from Watch Offer, PO Box 214, Young America, MN 55399.

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