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Issue: Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine #4
Publication Date: November 1977
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Issues: #4 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: none
Pages: 164
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000695811
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 42 (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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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
First Line: What kind of vacation money did you have in mind?
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Heat Rave

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Mr. Lodge; Smithers; Ed Diamond
Synopsis: The kids are playing with hoses to cool themselves off during a two month old heat wave. But when Archie grabs the hoses away from the girls, Mr. Lodge sees the water falling like rain and believes the drought is over. He then calls a neighbor to claim a bet between the two men that the drought is over.
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The Urge

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Synopsis: Jughead says that he's got too much sense to leave Pop Tate's shop on a hot day, but the threat that ice cream might melt outside gets him to jump into action.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Oh, Archie! You're dripping on me!
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Past Present

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica claim that the modern way of dressing is for girls to wear casual clothes and do without makeup and perfume. But the boys' attention is monopolized by an old-fashioned girl in a tight skirt and high heels.
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We Ski

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Genres: teen
Synopsis: Archie tries to water ski.
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Jug's Burger Puzzle

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Synopsis: Maze with coins along each possible route; pick the one that adds up to the 85c Jughead needs for a hamburger.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Mr. Kroskut...all faculty members over fifty must report to the clinic!
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Captain Kidder

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Synopsis: Another one of Reggie's pranks on Archie backfires; this one involves a fake buried treasure at the beach.
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Type Casting

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Synopsis: Dad is reading a book on child psychology.
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The Unwanted

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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis: At Veronica's behest, Mr. Lodge sets Betty up with some handsome young engineers from his firm to keep her away from Archie now that Veronica is fighting with him.
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First Line: Daddy, how can I improve Archie's reading if you keep throwing him out?
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Money to Burn!

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Colonel Carruthers (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis: Archie and the gang stop a group of counterfeiters.
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First Line: You're letting Archie land it?
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The Go Between

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Mr. Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Billy Clare
Synopsis: Betty pays a boy with a bike to carry messages between her and Veronica, and the boy keeps running over Archie.
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Ready When Needed

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Genres: drama, humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Jughead bores Archie and Veronica by preaching against reckless speed driving, but then drives like a madman when he needs to get a little boy to the hospital.
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First Line: Dear Aunt Gladys--
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: You gave Miss Beazly a book on "Proper Place Setting"?
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Stop the Music

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Dewey Wanna Brass (cameo); Waldo Weatherbee; Fred Andrews; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis: Archie takes up the trumpet to impress Veronica, who is in love with the latest teen idol, Dewey Wanna Brass.
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Color Fun

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First Line: Come on! We're all going to the beach!
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The Lucky Day

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Character(s): Little Archie Andrews; Mr. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson; Susan Johnson
Synopsis: Little Archie comes along on the Johnsons' family trip to the beach, to Mr. Johnson's horror.
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Paper Money

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Big Moose Mason
First Line: I most certainly will not go Dutch treat to the dance with you tonight, Archie Andrews!
Synopsis: When Archie needs to make some money by five o'clock in order for Veronica to agree to go out with him, Moose suggest he deliver newspapers. Reggie tries to sabotage him, but it backfires.
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Take Your Pick!

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Synopsis: Li'l Jinx asks for the right to pick her own birthday present.
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The Green Scene

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Archie and Reggie exchange gardening insults.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Flutesnoot, I thought you gave up smoking?!
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The Wall Flower Child

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Genres: drama, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Chuck Clayton; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Harry Owens; Dudley; Pop Tate
Synopsis: After all the boys ignore her at a party, Betty wanders off on her own and meets an older boy, Harry Owens, who takes her out in his car and tries to take advantage of her.
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Dear Archie: Archie Answers Your Teenage Problems

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Character(s): Wondering; Dubious;
First Line: Dear Archie: There's this boy that has taken me to the football dance for the past three years.
Synopsis: Archie gives advice to girls with dating problems.
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First Line: Didn't you like the date I got you with Stella?
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If the Shoe Fits

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Jughead! Do you realize I'm going to be the judge at the Cinderella Ball tonight?
Synopsis: Reggie is the judge at a Cinderella dance, where the girl whose foot fits his shoe will win a date of her choice at the nicest restaurant in town. Reggie convinces Jughead to pretend to be a girl, so they can arrange to both win and get the meal. Unfortunately, Ophelia Glutenschnable wears the same size shoe as Jughead, and she picks Reggie as her date.
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Saving For Two

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First Line: I just finished my life saving course at the Y!!
Synopsis: Archie has finished a life-saving course, so he can save beautiful babes at the beach. Reggie wants Archie to save one for him too.
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Flower Power!

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First Line: Daddy, may I have some money?
Synopsis: Li'l Jinx wants to buy plastic stick-on flowers to make things pretty.
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Help Li'l Jinx find her way out of the woods

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Feature(s): Li'l Jinx Puzzles
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First Line: Guess what, Mildred...I bought a wig!
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The Vanishing Villain

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Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
Character(s): Ice Cube
Synopsis: Reggie and Archie watch as Veronica is kidnapped, and Reggie becomes Evilheart. But Archie can't become Pureheart. Only then does the real Veronica show up, the other girl only looked like Veronica. As Evilheart races back, he loses control of his motorcycle thanks to an icy strip of road. Archie then becomes Pureheart and the two heroes duke it out while the Ice Cube kidnaps the real Veronica.
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Legal-Lingo for Teen-Agers

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First Line: Who wants to ride the lead horse?
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String Along

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Synopsis: The boys try to trick the girls into thinking that Archie is great with a bow and arrow. The girls call his bluff by entering him in an archery contest.
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First Line: Miss Shapely, I...I...
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Away We Go

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis: When Veronica's dad grounds her, she and her friends try all kinds of tricks, ruses and disguises to break her out.
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Cover Up

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: At the beach, Veronica and Betty try to get Archie to give up fishing.
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First Line: You don't like taking gym after lunch?
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