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Issue: Laugh Comics Digest #86
Publication Date: January 1990
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Issues: #86 of 200 Issues (279 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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: 132
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 07189646852686
Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 28 (27 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]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Channel two!
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Cramped Quarters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Miss Lovejoy
Synopsis: Reading about a series of bank burglaries, Mr. Lodge drafts Archie to help him check his safe deposit box. Archie manages to get them both locked in the vault.
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Pages: 6
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Drag Drama

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Pages: 1
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Peach of a Speech

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Light Sprite

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dilton Doiley; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Dilton is too shy to talk to girls so Archie convinces Dilton to use one of his holograms to talk to women.
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Pages: 5
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No Show

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Ethel Muggs; Moose Mason; Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis: Reggie finds two tickets to a hot play laying on the street, but can't get anyone to go with him.
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Two Fooled

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Pages: 1
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The Fan

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Glenn Scarpelli; Otto the butler; Samantha Scruggs
Synopsis: The winner of a contest becomes overexcited at the prospect of meeting Glenn.
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Ring-a-ding

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mr. Lodge
Character(s): Mr. Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Smithers
Synopsis: The cord to ring the bell for the butler isn't working.
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Boobology

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Big Moose
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Moose Mason
Synopsis: Archie asks Moose if he ever dipped pigtails into inkwells when he was in grade school.
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Lonely Lobo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Billy Grumbelly; Kanyook (wolf); un-named zookeeper
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee tells us how Archie came to have a strange attachment to an old, mean wolf at the zoo. In the flashback, Archie goes up to Mr. Lodge's North Woods retreat to do a report on wolves, and goes flying over the forest with Mr. Lodge. When the plane crash-lands and Archie is knocked out, Mr. Lodge goes to get help, but while he's alone in the stranded plane, Archie is almost trampled by a stampede of caribou. And after he manages to out of the plane, he faces an even worse problem: Kanyook, a starving outcast wolf who used to be the leader of his pack.
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Pages: 23
Disclose Notes: As Bolling explains in a footnote, Mr. Lodge's lodge in the North Woods and his angry caretaker, Billy Grumbelly, originally appeared in a story (also by Bolling) in Little Archie #155.

When reprinted in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #23, inks are credited to Bob Smith.
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Hostess with the Mostest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Miss Beazly; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis: Miss Beazly tries to remake her image by being the cafeteria Maitre D' rather than head lunch lady.
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Generation Gap!

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Genres: teen
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Sound Thinking

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Midge Klump
Synopsis: Reggie tells the girls he'll give them five dollars if they can make a noise somebody would like.
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Disclose Notes: The girls have a band called The Veronicas, with Midge on guitar, Betty on drums, and Veronica on what seems to be a three-string guitar.
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Blue Saturday

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: drama, humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Spotty; Mr. Svenson; Loki; Buzz Bradley; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Archie's dog Spotty keeps following him to school and causing trouble. When Spotty chases Svenson's cat Loki and knocks over a bunch of old photos, Archie discovers that Mr. Weatherbee used to be a Riverdale High football hero. But in the big game against Hasselhead High, Archie discovers that when you have the opportunity to be a hero, that doesn't mean it'll happen.
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Disclose Notes: Spotty, created by Bob Bolling for "Little Archie," here gets the biggest of his few roles in the "big" Archie stories.
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Jealous

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Bowled Over

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pop Tate
Character(s): Pop Tate
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High Ideas

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mr. Weatherbee
Character(s): Mr. Weatherbee
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Pass Word

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Reggie
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Pages: 6
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Gone Fishing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Mr. Svenson
First Line: Archie, I hope you haven't forgotten about Carassius auratus!?
Synopsis: Archie buys goldfish for Veronica for their anniversary.
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Talk Squawk

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx
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Chivalrous Chumps

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Ingrid; Chole
Synopsis: Archie and Reggie end up with bad dates when they date girls they don't know.
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Pages: 6
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Pic Kick

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Reggie
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Money Honey

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Mr. Lodge
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Dumb's the Word

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Moose
Character(s): Moose Mason
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Pages: 1
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Western Daze

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Sabrina; Cousin Ambrose; Aunt Hilda; Aunt Zelda
Synopsis: Ambrose uses a magic talisman to transport himself and Sabrina back into the old west.
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Flame Out

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie 1; Jughead 1; Betty 1; Veronica 1; Moose 1
Synopsis: The gang decides to cook some dino-mites.
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Pages: 5
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Block That Ego

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Coach Kleats; Reggie Mantle; Chuck Clayton; Moose Mason; Betty Cooper
First Line: Coach, I'd like to take a picture of your team, before the game!
Synopsis: Reggie's personality changes after getting a head injury before a football game.
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Pages: 5

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