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Issue: Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine #97
Publication Date: November 2005
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Issues: #97 of 146 Issues (188 Printings)
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Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 196
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76281646953109711
Price: $3.59 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 43 (36 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Genres: teen
First Line: Three on a date is nice...
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Blame Game

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Genres: humorous, teen
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee schedules Superintendent Hassle's visit to Riverdale High while Archie is in study hall to prevent any mishaps.
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Heads Up

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Feature(s): Big Moose
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Updated

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Red Letter Day

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What Is It?

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Character(s): Miss Beazly
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Help Not Wanted!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Mr. Cooper; Mr. Weatherbee; Dilton Doiley; Pop Tate; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
Synopsis: Archie's attempts to be helpful always backfire.
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Some Change

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Speed Demon

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Genres: drama, teen
Character(s): Chuck Clayton; Coach Clayton; Archie Andrews; Nancy Woods; Harvey; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Harvey, a runner from Jackson High, tries to sabotage Chuck before the big race.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from the reprint in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #21, no credits listed in this digest.
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Name Game

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Feature(s): Moose
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Rain Pain

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Archie bundles up in rain gear to go to Veronica's in a downpour. When he gets there, he finds she now has an enclosed pool and wants him to go swimming.
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Floating!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Dilton Doiley; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Dilton comes up with a design for a float for the parade, and all goes well until Archie is involved.
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Reggie the Ego Tripper!

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Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Reggie Mantle
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: You moved the merry-go-round inside from the playground?
Synopsis: Child labor is used to power all mixers and blenders.
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Reprint Notes: From Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX.
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Team Player

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mr. Howitzer
Synopsis: Dilton is upset when he doesn't make the football team, but he helps win a game by dressing up as a ram and distracting the other team.
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Easel Does It

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
First Line: Hot Dog! What a perfect day for golf!
Synopsis: Fred takes up oil painting after deciding golf may be too strenuous.
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Cold Cuts!

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Synopsis: Charley has a bad cold.
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Stressful Sorcery

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Genres: fantasy, humorous, teen
Character(s): Sabrina Spellman
Synopsis: Sabrina describes situations in which magic made her life more stressful rather than less stressful.
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The Worry Wart

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Feature(s): Mort
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Greg; Charley Hawse; Mort
Synopsis: Li'l Jinx's new classmate, Mort, constantly worries about everything and just makes things worse for himself and everyone.
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Disclose Notes: First appearance of Mort, who would star in his own series of stories in "Pep" and "Laugh."
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Pound for Pound

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Genres: teen
Synopsis: Reggie rigs the school scale and has everyone in a tizzy over their weight.
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Speed Trapped

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Dilton Doily; Mrs. Doily
Synopsis: Dilton develops a pair of augmented shoes that allow him to accelerate to fifty times normal human speed.
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No Help Wanted

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Josie; Melody; Valerie
Synopsis: When the girls have a flat tire, a mechanic offers to fix it for free, if they let him perform with the band.
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Maid of Money or Here Comes the Million Dollar Melody!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Josie; Valerie; Melody; Alexandra
Synopsis: Melody shows up to the dance in a dress made of one and five dollar bills and starts giving out money to the boys. Alexandra gets jealous and makes her own dress out of hundred dollar bills.
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The Cat's Meow!

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Safe, But Sorry

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Genres: humorous, romantic, teen
Character(s): Bessie; Elsie
Synopsis: Josie meets several different kinds of men and finds they all want to take advantage of her. After that, she realizes that Alan M. is nicer than any other man and agrees to go to the movies with him. But it's not such a happy ending once she realizes that Alan goes to the opposite extreme by never even trying to lay a hand on her.
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Disclose Notes: Inker credit changed to match the credits in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #218.
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Talent To-Do!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Chuck Clayton; Ethel Muggs; Miss Grundy; Brigitte; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Professor Flutesnoot; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis: The school talent show is disrupting Miss Grundy's classroom.
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Teacher Blues

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Wet Paint

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Synopsis: Li'l Jinx's father is trying to paint the bedroom.
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Trade Charade

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats; Chuck Clayton; Dilton Doily; Geraldine Grundy; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Reggie and Archie make a series of trades that don't turn out well for Archie.
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Election Selection

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Dilton Doiley; Chuck Clayton
Synopsis: Dilton helps Moose take a poll to see if Moose might have a chance at becoming class president.
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Strange Strength

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In the Dark

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Synopsis: Jinx is chafing at the restrictions her age brings.
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Little Archie and the "Wishing Witch"

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Genres: childrens, fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Wishing Witch
Synopsis: Little Archie is assigned to attract a bird to Miss Grundy's bird-feeding platform. An eccentric witch who lives at the library gives him a magical book with instructions on how to attract the most unusual bird the school has ever seen: a prehistoric pterodactyl.
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Disclose Notes: The witch says that she was studying to become a TV quiz show contestant, but there are "no more big time TV quiz shows." This is a reference to the fact that most prime-time game shows had been canceled in the wake of the quiz-show scandals of the late '50s.
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The Duel

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Little Sabrina
Character(s): Little Sabrina; Aunt Zelda; Aunt Hilda
Synopsis: Aunt Zelda is on a diet.
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The Name of the Game

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Smart Start

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Ethel
Character(s): Ethel Muggs
Synopsis: Ethel is the starter for a track meet.
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Cookie Crumbles

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Character(s): Miss Beazly
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Southern Comfort

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Pop Tate; Archie Andrews; Chuck Clayton; Coach Clayton
Synopsis: Chuck does not know what to get his father for his birthday.
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Fashion Frolic

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Genres: humorous, teen
Synopsis: In an attempt to get the kids to quit wearing outlandish designs they have seen on MTV, the Riverdale faculty dress up in the same outfits to show the kids how strange they look.
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Move Groove

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Dilton Doiley; Miss Grundy
Synopsis: The teens are assigned a composition about transportation and everyone chooses a different era to write about.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Synopsis: Its Mr. Weatherbee's 25th anniversary at Riverdale High.
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That's Batty

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Silent Treatment

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Chuck Clayton; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Nancy Woods
Synopsis: The boys play charades against the girls.
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