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Issue: Laugh Comics Digest #5
Publication Date: July 1976
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Issues: #5 of 200 Issues (279 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 35 (30 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard US digest size
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Josie (inset); Mr. Lodge (inset); Ms. Grundy (inset); Mr. Weatherbee (inset); Reggie Mantle (inset); Little Archie Andrews (inset)
First Line: Wow! Another bull's eye, Betty! Veronica won't top your score in archery!
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Disclose Notes: Redrawn from the cover of Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #31.
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Wooden You Know

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; unidentified Riverdale coed
Synopsis: When Veronica finds out that Archie has been attending woodworking in order to make a play for a gorgeous redhead, she secretly sabotages his project and hers.
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Blow Up

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis: Archie annoys Veronica and her father by constantly taking and developing photographs, but one of his pictures turns out to contain the evidence of a major crime at Mr. Lodge's plant.
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Signal Honor

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
Synopsis: Rumors are circulating around school of a secret society, and everybody thinks Jughead is a member of it.
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Switch Witch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy, humorous, teen
Character(s): Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Della; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: To stop her from making friends with humans, Della reverses Sabrina's powers so that every helpful spell will cause harm instead.
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Big Ethel's Word Puzzle

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Genres: teen
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Jughead! Are you two passing notes back and forth?!
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The Masher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Archie makes lewd advances toward Betty, or so it seems. Betty and Veronica quickly turn the tables on him.
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Workling Daze!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Shrimpy; Peggy
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Wet Paint

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Violet
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Shadow Boxed

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Alec; Linda Moore; Mert
Synopsis: Linda follows Laurie and Wilbur because she feels they are acting suspicious. She follows them to an unknown house where Laurie brings her inside and introduces her to a blind date named Mert.
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A Boy and His Dog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Noname
Synopsis: Archie's dog "Noname" is trained to fetch women, tugging at their skirts so that Archie can get introduced to them. Reggie tries the same trick, but Noname keeps fetching sticks, boys, and girls who aren't quite old enough for Reggie.
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Disclose Notes: One of a few stories with "Noname" as Archie's dog, part of an attempt to add a dog to the comic in preparation for the upcoming cartoon series. Finally the comic settled on Hot Dog as the permanent addition.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Beazly
First Line: You told Miss Beazly she can keep a bird in the cafeteria?
Synopsis: Miss Beazly has a bird in the cafeteria.
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Reprint Notes: from Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 1961-02-24
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Pages: 1
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The Smart Machine

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Josie; Melody; Valerie Smith; Alan M.; Alexander Cabot III; Alexandra Cabot; Sebastian; Professor Branewash; Mr. Tuttle; un-named policeman; un-named kids
Synopsis: A sleazy scientist claims that his "smart machine" will make people intelligent without the necessity of getting an education. Only Valerie is unwilling to believe in the "easy way" -- but it's Valerie who offers to help the professor get new clients.
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Disclose Notes: Last appearance of Mr. Tuttle, the school principal, who had been in the title since the beginning.
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Finny Finis

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Genres: humorous, teen
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Some Total

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Genres: humorous, teen
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Fashion Passion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Midge Klump; Ethel Muggs; Mr. Weatherbee; Mr. Flutesnoot
Synopsis: Veronica follows Betty, Midge and Ethel in disguise as they shop for back-to-school outfits, in order to gauge the competition and emerge as the trendsetter once again.
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Archie Presents Picture Puzzles

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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Betty! Is that the friendship ring Archie gave you?
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Reprint Notes: from Archie daily (King Features Syndicate) 1961-01-16
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Pages: 1
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Special Delivery

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Hi, Samantha! What's...
Synopsis: Samantha asks Bingo to accept delivery of a package that she doesn't want her father to see.
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Disclose Notes: Includes a promotional blurb for The Archie Comedy Hour Saturday morning television show on CBS TV on bottom of first page.
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Feather Your Zest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis: Jughead tries to help a baby bird he finds on the school grounds by smuggling it into class.
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Pages: 4
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The Flying Ace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Little Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge takes Little Archie and Veronica up in a plane, but the plane malfunctions and crashes.
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Disclose Notes: Mr. Lodge is named "Henry" in this story.

Taylor draws the adult characters in this story in a more realistic style, imitating the style Bolling used for his adventure stories.
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The Bells Are Ringing

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Synopsis: Hap is waiting for an important business phone call, but Jinx keeps tying up the line.
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Did You Know?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: One-two and one-two-three!
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Pages: 1
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A Lie-kly Story!

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Genres: humorous, teen
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My Son the Teenager

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Seymour
Character(s): Seymour; Seymour's Poppa; Seymour's mother; Seymour's girlfriend; un-named students; un-named teachers
Synopsis: In a series of captions, some of which rhyme and some of which don't, Seymour's "proud poppa" tells us the story of a typical day in the life of his klutzy, girl-crazy teenaged son.
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Loser's Luck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Smithers the butler; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Accidents keep happening to Betty before her date with Archie and everybody suspects Veronica - - except for Betty.
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Out of This World

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uwanna Duck
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Pages: 6
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Our Fun Page

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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Flutesnoot, my office is full of flies again!
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Reprint Notes: from Archie newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate, XX-XX-19XX)
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Pages: 1
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Death Waits at Dumesbury

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, horror, teen
Character(s): Sabrina; Tom Gibson
Synopsis: Sabrina inherits the spooky Dumesbury Mansion from her Uncle Thaddeus. When she gets there, she finds that her powers don't work and that someone is trying to drive her mad with gas and spooky organ music.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Inking previously credited to Jon D'Agostino. Credit changed 9/19/2012 per credits list on joesinnott.com.
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Money Makes the Scene

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
First Line: Will you quit studying that butterfly and help out your old buddy?
Synopsis: Lacking the money for a ticket, Archie gets a job at the new swinging discotheque, and tries to sneak away from his work with the flashing lights to get a dance with Veronica.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: One of a number of stories from this period with references to discotheques, meditation, and other fads of the era.
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Stop Sign

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Archie gives Veronica an old metal belt he found in a cave. Veronica discovers that when she puts it on, she has the power to freeze anyone or anything in its place by saying the word "Stop."
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Now, this will demonstrate if a falling object accelerates in proportion to its weight!
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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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