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Issue: Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine #5
Publication Date: February 1978
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Issues: #5 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)
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Pages: 164
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UPC/EAN: 0271000695802
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 46 (37 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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First Line: What are you looking for, Archie? This boutique is for girls!
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Disclose Notes: Redrawn from the cover of Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #198. Art credits from original art as submitted by Nick Katradis via the GCD Error Tracker.
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Spring Fervor

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First Line: Eeyahoo!! Awake, ye dullards! Winter is on the wane!
Synopsis: Archie has spring fever.
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First Line: And now.... student voters!.. I give you our next class president!..
Synopsis: Archie's win for class president in not unanimous.
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Fun Time

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First Line: Brrr! It's freezing! Come on! Let's run! It will help to keep us warm!
Synopsis: Betty keeps having accidents, and every time she does, a different handsome man appears to tend to her.
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Three Cornered Calamity

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Character(s): Aunt Agnes
First Line: Pick me up early tonight, Archiekins!
Synopsis: Archie needs help to learn how to babysit. When Veronica can't get the job done, Betty does.
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Archie Puzzlers

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Synopsis: Two messages to decode.
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First Line: Archie is running for president!
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Field Day

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Synopsis: Jughead is turned down for the track team and winds up taking care of the equipment for its star pole-vaulter, Reggie.
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Credits from Archie's Pal Jughead #93.
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Unsung Hero

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Synopsis: Archie, on his way to school, notices kids skulking around and finds that the kids are playing hooky from school because their moms were mean to them. The kids then decide to drop out, run away and do their own thing. Archie pretends to be a disheveled dropout and convinces the kids to go to school. Unfortunately, Archie's now late for school and he's the one who gets in trouble.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie #207.
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First Line: Sometimes I wish I’d been a lighthouse keeper!
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The "Peace" of Paper!

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First Line: Stop fooling with the head, Archie!
Synopsis: Whenever Mr. Weatherbee starts to get angry at Archie he pulls out and reads a piece of paper and calms down again.
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First Line: I thought Archie interviewed you for a biography?
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S'now Joke

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Synopsis: Jinx makes a snowman with an unusual feature.
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It's Snow Fun Without You

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First Line: Wheee! I just love the snow, don't you girls?
Synopsis: Betty tries to play in the snow with Archie, and winds up repeatedly hurting herself.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #171.
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Archie's Little Mind Twister

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First Line: Wow!
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Snow Job or He Drifted

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First Line: Haven't quite got the feel of the controls!
Synopsis: Archie and Veronica sell refreshments to ice fishers.
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Panicksville

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First Line: Help! Police! I've been robbed!
Synopsis: Reggie loses his wallet and the most upsetting part of the loss is some irreplaceable photos.
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I Pass

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First Line: I think the opposing team should pass now.
Synopsis: Archie tells Reggie the history of American football.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Reggie and Me #45.
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First Line: Archie, you can't make water disappear!
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Go Cart Go!

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Character(s): Effie Fibgabber; Officer McNickle; un-named old man
First Line: Wah! Aw, please, Mom, Please!
Synopsis: While Little Archie's mom is shopping, Little Archie and Ambrose make a kite tail out of sausages, causing havoc at the supermarket. Then, when Mrs. Andrews stops to talk to someone on the way out, the boys get into a shopping cart and wind up going for a high-speed ride along a crowded street.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from The Adventures of Little Archie #21.
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First Line: You want to be a doctor like your uncle?
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Card Shark

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First Line: Do you need money?
Synopsis: Jughead makes money selling greeting cards.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie's Pal Jughead #83.
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Strategy

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Synopsis: Archie tries to build some muscles so he can stand up to Moose.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Life with Archie #69.
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First Line: Now it's poetry time class...
Synopsis: Archie recites his poem about oaks and nuts.
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The Demon Dropout!

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Character(s): Mad Chemist
Synopsis: An embittered dropout turns all the Riverdale High students into overgrown infants.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie as Pureheart the Powerful #2. The title is Demon Dropout but the villain is only refered to by himself as being called Mad Chemist. He has an F as an emblem on his chest. No mention is made of what the F stands for except Pureheart calling him a Foul Fiend.
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Character(s): Doctor Shrinked
First Line: Do you really think psychiatry can help backward students?
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Paths to Paradise

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First Line: It's one of the facts of life, Archie!
Synopsis: Betty's father hires Archie to shovel their walk, so Veronica gets her father to hire Archie as well.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #171.
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Reggie's Puzzle Page

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First Line: Ha, ha! Jughead claims he saw a flying saucer tonight!!
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The Punishment

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Character(s): Miss Glutz; Mr. Grabowsky
First Line: Miss Grundy! You didn't! You gave Archie detention? Today?
Synopsis: The Archies play at a teachers' tea dance.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Life with Archie #74.
At this point, before the animated cartoons and the records, the Archies consist only of Archie, Reggie, and Jughead.
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Ice-Capades!

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Synopsis: Jinx makes an ice sculpture but Hap damages it.
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First Line: But you can't launch him on that!
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Dumb Animal

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Synopsis: Jughead's dog can't hear but he can read lips and read signs, so Archie writes a sign that says "Get Lost."
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie's Pal Jughead #82.
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Animal Mothers

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Genres: nature
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Adventures of the Fly #15.
Text article with color illustration of tigers.
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Pearls of the Orient

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First Line: Gluing Reggie's desk closed is a good idea!
Synopsis: Archie tries to play pranks on Reggie, justifying all his risky actions with old Chinese proverbs.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Laugh Comics #147.
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First Line: Veronica, I hope I didn't just see you looking at Archie's test paper!
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Tell The Tooth

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Detective O'Hara; George; un-named woman
Synopsis: When Little Archie puts a tooth under his pillow, "Tooth Fairy" Fred has to go out in the snow to borrow some change.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from The Adventures of Little Archie #22.
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First Line: Jughead! Don't you wanna learn to defend yourself?
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Ask a Foolish Question

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First Line: What's new Jug?
Synopsis: Reggie seems to be the only one who notices Jughead's strange behavior (wearing a wastebasket on his head, walking a bear, riding a unicycle), but when he confronts Jughead about it, the bear confronts Reggie.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie's Pal Jughead #82.
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The Boy Wonder

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First Line: Hop on, Angel!
Synopsis: Archie tries to compete with Reggie's snowmobile by attaching a sail to his sled.
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Disclose Notes: Credits from Archie #199.
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First Line: Coach, when is Archie going into the game?
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It'll Be One Big Laugh after Another, When You Order Laugh Comics Digest No 15

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Feature(s): Laugh Comics Digest
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Feature(s): The Jughead Jones Comics Digest
First Line: One Jughead Digest coming up!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #4.

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