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Issue: Archie's Double Digest Magazine #53
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Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
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Volume: none
Pages: 260
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UPC/EAN: 07189646951653
Price: $2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 56 (54 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest size (5" x 7")
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Daddy bought that at a county highway department auction!
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You Wanna Be What?

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humorous, teen
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Sea Spree

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humorous, teen
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That's the Brakes

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humorous, teen
Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe
Bingo fixes Mr. Smythe's car.
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Wash and Wearing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot; Mary Andrews
What in the world is that noise?
Archie cleans up around school because it's not as clean as he wants it to be.
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Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #309, no credits listed in this digest.
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Good Samaritan

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Archie goes to great lengths to save a small boy's ball from a garbage truck. He finally snags it, but gets clobbered by the boy's father for "stealing" it.
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A Very Valuable Ball

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humorous, teen
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Don't Move a Muscle

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humorous, teen
Oh, isn't he sweet? I'll bet he's a whiz at hopscotch!
Reggie doesn't want to go to an art class with Veronica.
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Type Casting

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Mr. Weatherbee buys new typewriters, and he and Archie prevent a robbery ring from stealing them.
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The Star

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The Archies [Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper]; Nancy Woods
Betty leaves the group and it suffers a corresponding drop in popularity.
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Dateless Dandy

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humorous, teen
Big Moose Mason
Reggie schemes to get Moose a part time job in order to get him out of the way so Reggie can take Midge to the dance.
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Pencil and Ink credits from the reprint in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #7.
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A Note of Fear

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Reggie receives threatening notes.
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The Jargon of Jealousy

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teen
Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
Midge accuses Moose of cheating on her to get him to stop being jealous.
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The Sinister Sleep! Part One

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Professor Crenshaw
Someone is robbing people by shooting them with tranquilizer darts. The police suspect Mr. Lodge's houseguest, Professor Crenshaw, who has a collection of blowguns from New Guinea. Archie begins his own investigation.
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Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (2011 series) #309, no credits listed in this digest.
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The Sinister Sleep Part Two

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Professor Crenshaw
Archie solves the case, exonerating Professor Crenshaw.
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Change For the Batter

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humorous, teen
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All in the Stars!

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Midge; Reggie Mantle; Flora Fortune (Midge's cousin)
Betty and Veronica won't get near Archie because his horoscope foretells disaster and they don't want to be responsible for it.
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Midge's last name is given as "Taylor" in this story.
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Car Toons

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humorous
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Going Bats

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humorous
Li'l Jinx; Russ
Jinx asks Russ for advice on why she's not hitting.
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Responsibility

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teen
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A-Weigh We Go

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Archie Andrews! Don't you believe in knocking before you enter??!
Mr. Weatherbee is in a bad mood because he's on a diet, but the sight of Archie makes him quit thinking about how hungry he is, so he makes Archie be his exercise partner.
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Shoo Fly

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Li'l Jinx!! Find out if the newsboy brought our paper!
Jinx lets a fly in the house and then tries to get rid of it.
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Serenade Grenade

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Archie tries to serenade Veronica.
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Betty's Fashions 3000

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Gas of a Guess

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humorous, teen
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Progress Report

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Miss Grundy; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Dilton Doiley; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
Archie uses a tape recorder to record his homework for Miss Grundy's class.
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Some Changes Made

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humorous, teen
Willie Wilkin; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe
A snooty interior decorator comes over and tells Mr. Wilkin that everything in his house will have to go, much to Mr. Smythe's amusement.
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Born to Bungle

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
When Veronica is alone in the house, she sees a man lurking in the bushes. Grabbing a croquet mallet, she goes to investigate, only to find it is her father, waiting to make sure that Archie has left. However, Archie manages to cause trouble for Mr. Lodge even when he's not there.
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It Only Hurts When I Laugh

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Big Moose and Reggie
Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
Moose is trying to be a friendlier, happier person, but an encounter with Reggie tests his resolve.
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The Dough Nut

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Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Veronica is upset that she has to pay for her half of the date with Archie.
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Pun-Tastic

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Psy-Kick

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Dilton Doily and the Playboys

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Fancy Footwork

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Li'l Jinx doesn't want to replace her old white sneakers with new blue ones.
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Lay It on Me

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What do you mean you're not going to play in tomorrow's baseball game, Archie?
Archie can't play in the baseball game that Veronica was hoping to watch with her cousin because they're allowing second-string players a chance to play. Veronica demands that he go down to Coach Kleats and demand to play in the game.
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Stop the World

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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge
Veronica's whim to travel gives Mr. Lodge a chance to test his new supersonic jet.
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Close Encounter of the Third Rate Kind

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A Time for Love

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Professor Flutesnoot assumes the worse when he sees students showing affection in the hallways.
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Sign of Trouble

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Oh, golly! Look at that ghastly billboard! It ruins one of our most beautiful views!
A housing developer is putting up big, ugly billboards and signs so Archie, Betty and Veronica try to put a stop to it.
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His Knightly Meal

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A Word to the Wise

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Some Unusual Announcements

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humorous, teen
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The GENTLEman

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Reggie Mantle
Archie tries to teach Moose not to get so angry when other boys talk to Midge.
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Rough It, My Eye

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humorous, teen
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The Marshmallow

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formerly a Reggie and Me story.
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Trouble Seat

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humorous, teen
Mr. Jensen
Miss Grundy, this new Saturday detention is great! The parents are a hundred percent behind it!
Mr. Weatherbee sits on a varnished chair courtesy of Archie; the teenager tries to assist Mr. Weatherbee in removing the chair but only gets into more trouble.
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Svenson the janitor is referred to as Jensen.
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Plant Strife

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humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Mrs. Jones
Jughead wants to buy a rubber plant for his mom's birthday and nearly ruins a business deal for Mr. Lodge, but ends up making $25,000.
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A Clean Break

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Okay, Mom! I'm going out now!
Mary wants Archie to clean and vacuum his room.
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Sweet Sock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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teen
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Jughead Jones
Betty talks Moose into becoming romantically interested in Veronica so Archie will be afraid to date her.
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Better Batter

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Big Moose
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Baseball Slang

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humorous, teen
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The Confidence Game

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate; Hiram Lodge
Archie is given a briefcase full of money by Mr. Weatherbee to guard until it can be deposited at the bank in the morning.
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We've Come a Long Way, Baby!

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Well..sigh! That's it I guess!
Archie and the gang in prehistoric times say that civilization has peaked. There's nothing left to invent. Now that they have everything they need it's become dull so they invent things they don't need like fashion and work.
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Shine On Moon

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humorous, teen
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Nature Boy

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humorous
There! That ought to do it!
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The Quitter

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adventure, humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge; Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones; Gus Stanko
When his father loses his job, Jughead drops out of school and takes a job at Mr. Lodge's plant to support his family. But the foreman is stealing from the company, and Jughead, Archie and Veronica have no proof to convince Mr. Lodge.
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formerly an Archie at Riverdale story.

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