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Issue: Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine #3
Publication Date: August 1977
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Issues: #3 of 114 Issues (139 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: 164
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000695808
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 43 (38 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Digest size
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Pop Tate; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Archie, why the blindfold?
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The Reason

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Why? That's all I want to know Reggie Mantle! Why do you and the other guys get so many dates with Veronica?
Synopsis: Archie confronts Veronica about the fact that she's going out with other guys more than him, and she agrees to give him a chance to show her a better time than the others.
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Excluded

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Smithers the butler; Hiram Lodge; Betty Cooper
Synopsis: After a lover's spat, Veronica's plans to keep Archie out of the Lodge estate net everyone but Archie.
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First Line: Miss Phlips! Did you put these flowers on my desk?
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Rat Takes the Cheese

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Reggie is chosen to monitor the class in Miss Grundy's absence, but a squabble with Jughead quickly sinks that plan.
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Who Scent Him?

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers; Professor Cranwell; Professor Clodfugle
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge's company tries to come up with a new cologne, but the first try smells too manly, and the other isn't manly enough. Archie comes up with the perfect combination.
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Archie's Hang Up!

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Character(s): Waldo Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
First Line: tap tap tap
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee gives Archie something to put up on the bulletin board, but of course with Archie it's not so simple.
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Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #298, no credits listed in this digest.
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Reggie's Baseball Team Word Puzzle

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Synopsis: word search puzzle
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First Line: So that’s your new “Texas longhorn bike”!
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A Cook's Tour

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Spotty
Synopsis: Little Archie tries to make his mother breakfast in bed on her birthday, and nearly wrecks the place doing it.
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Two on the Aisle

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Betty discovers that Archie will pick the girl with maturity, dignity and refinement, so she and Veronica wind up throwing tomatoes and mud at each other in their battle to see who's more mature and adult.
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Larceny and Old Lace

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Aunt Martha
First Line: Uh, oh! Ol' Reggie's laying in wait for me!
Synopsis: Jughead dresses as an old woman to avoid paying back five bucks to Reggie. Reggie dresses up as an old man to get him back, but mistakes Archie's Aunt Martha for a disguised Jughead and she beats him with her purse.
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Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
First Line: Hey, Betty! You're always reading about TV and screen stars!
Synopsis: Reggie jokes that what Liberace uses to washes his hands is soap.
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First Line: Archie, what are you doing down here?
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A Nose for News

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Mary Andrews; Mr. Lodge; Smithers
Synopsis: In a story punctuated by many ironic comments from the narrator, Archie and Veronica see old newspapers from the '20s and think that the world has been plunged into a new Depression.
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Shake-Down!

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Greg
Synopsis: When Greg's kite is stuck in a tree, Jinx gives the tree a good shaking. That brings down all the leaves, but the kite is still up there.
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That's Write, I'm Wrong

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Smithers; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis: Reggie gets in trouble by writing graffiti on Mr. Lodge's vintage roadster, which he mistakes in the dark for Archie's jalopy.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from the reprint in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #14, no credits listed in this digest.
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Rover Come Back to Me!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Doesn't Jughead come home today?
Synopsis: Jughead describes the cocker spaniel he spent time with during his vacation.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
First Line: Pop, can I use the electric drill?
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The Adventurer

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Disclose Notes: Story in two parts: Part One (8 pp.), Part II (5 pp.). Splash page and first panel of page two show what is clearly a take-off on the 1964 film "Godzilla vs. The Thing" (retitled here "Monster Melee").
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Hiram Lodge
First Line: What's wrong?
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Jughead Teasers

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Character(s): Jughead Jones
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Disclose Notes: Figure out who the doodles are and discover what is the best thing to put in a pie.
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Chihuahua

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Assignment of Trouble

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Genres: childrens, humorous
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Pony Tail Tale

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: The secret origin of Betty's ponytail.
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Sign Off

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You Are What You Eat

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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate
Synopsis: After Reggie makes fun of Jughead for putting pineapple on his hamburger, Jughead offers a lecture on the importance of getting proper nutrition.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Jasmine tea, from Ceylon!
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The Rattle of the Reptile

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Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews [as Captain Pureheart]; Reggie Mantle [as Evilheart]; Veronica Lodge; the Reptile; Bubbles Galore
Synopsis: Pureheart fights an inept battle against the villain known as the Reptile and his latest scheme to blackmail Mr. Lodge by kidnapping Veronica.
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Disclose Notes: The stories in this issue move Pureheart more towards pure comedy, as the character starts to become as klutzy and inept as Archie himself.
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Golden Retriever

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First Line: Of the many breeds of dogs which qualify for the title "Gun dog", none is more worthy or beautiful than the Golden Retriever.
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Trance-posed

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Say, Arch! - You been noticing Jughead lately?
Synopsis: With Jughead not sleeping, and gaining weight from excess eating, Archie and Reggie hire a hypnotist to help him.
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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
First Line: Arch, I can't seem to sleep anymore!
Synopsis: Archie jokingly tells Jughead how to fix his insomnia.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Oscar (Archie's dog)
First Line: Jughead! Haven’t you gone to sleep yet?
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The Good, the Bad and the Reggie

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Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Slade Sutter; Greg Ward
First Line: Archie and Reggie wrangle temporary jobs in the pits for the running of the Riverdale Hundred.....
Synopsis: Reggie and Archie are working in the pit crews of two famous auto racers, and Reggie's guy wants him to sabotage the car of Archie's driver.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from the printing in Archie & Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #26, no credits listed in this digest.
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Races

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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Little Jughead Jones; Little Reggie Mantle; Little Moose Mason; Little Betty Cooper; Little Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: The boys make soap-box racers.
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The Unwanted

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers
Synopsis: When they hear that Archie is coming over, Mr. Lodge and Smithers assume that the Cellini statue in the front yard is doomed to be broken.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
First Line: Veronica, these chocolates are out of this world!
Synopsis: Jughead enjoys the cuisine at Veronica's party.
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The Spring Ding-a-Lings

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First Line: She loves me
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee wages a one-man war against the onset of spring fever at the school.
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Rough and Ready

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First Line: You're coming along fine, Archie!... How are the hands?
Synopsis: Archie tries to develop the rough, calloused hands he needs to succeed as a gymnast.
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First Line: We’re all invited to Jughead’s for lunch!
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The Fan

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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Veronica is a vociferous critic of the local sandlot baseball team, until she gets a look at the kids' dreamboat coach.
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Power Mad

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First Line: Archiekins! You have a mini-bike! How groovy!
Synopsis: Archie is disappointed that he's not allowed to ride his new power scooter anywhere, so Veronica lets him ride it in her father's private gym.
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First Line: How’d ya like that home run?
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