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Issue: Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine #17
Publication Date: February 1981
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Issues: #17 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: 132
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000695802
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 37 (33 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; Professor Flutesnoot; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Moose Mason; Mr. Lodge
First Line: I won't be able to take you to tonight's dance, Veronica!
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Snow Day

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Beazly; Dilton Doily; Moose Mason; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis: The regular characters fail to listen to the radio on a snowy day, and wind up trapped inside the school on a day when all the schools are closed.
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The Meanest Girl in Town

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
Character(s): Betty; Veronica; Angie; Angie's family; policeman; detective
Synopsis: Veronica is suspicious of a young teen ostensibly collecting for charity. She has no sympathy when the girl is injured, and provokes the police to investigate. When she discovers that the family is in desperate straits, with the girl providing all their support, she takes the family under her wing and arranges a job for the girl.
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Ice-Capades

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Feature(s): Archie
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First Line: Boy! The snow is up to your knees today!
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Fade In, Fade Out

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mr. Weatherbee; Moose Mason; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Stop that clomping in the hall!!!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee gets his ego inflated when he believes Archie is filming him for a movie.
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On Ice

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Greg
First Line: Li'l Jinx! Where are you going with those ice skates?
Synopsis: Jinx is trying to learn to ice skate.
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Star Struck

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Moose Mason
First Line: Yahoo! I've got a date with Midge!
Synopsis: Jughead warns Reggie about stealing Archie's date with Midge because his horoscope says he will run into some misfortune.
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Reggie's Puzzle Page

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Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
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First Line: Now, don’t open your bon voyage gift until you’re on board!
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Real Sports

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Making Her Mark

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Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Dad
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Can Do

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Moose Mason
Synopsis: When Archie needs money to take Veronica to a concert, Reggie convinces him that Mr. Lodge will pay ten dollars to anyone who brings a carload of pop cans for recycling.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Big Moose's Gag Bag
First Line: Moose, you didn't have to use such a long sheet of paper to type this short article!
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White Stallion "Silver"

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Writer(s): Sally Wagner (plot)
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Genres: informational
Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis; Curly
Synopsis: Katy has a perilous encounter with a mistreated horse being harbored on Curly's ranch.
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Appetizer

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Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
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Stage Fright!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Veronica
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
First Line: T-the enemy is at the gates!
Synopsis: Veronica keeps tripping over things at the play because of her false eyelashes.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Berdie
First Line: Berdie, are you leaving us?
Synopsis: Miss Grundy talks with Berdie about his switch to another school.
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The Big Put-Down

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Genres: fantasy, humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: When Archie's friends are griping about how much they hate school, he shows us what they really think by conjuring up a devilish new student who tries to tempt them into defacing the school.
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Stick Trick

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First Line: Oh, boy! This makes 459---
Synopsis: Hap shows Jinx how to build a tower out of ice cream bar sticks.
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Black Book Bluff

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Veronica threatens to break up with Archie unless he shows the gang the little black book where he's been writing down all their secrets. After sending another black book ("The Wobbsey Twins At Haunted Lodge") as a decoy, he finally gives in and is about to read the mysterious book to them, until he plays on his friends' fears of having their guilty secrets come out.
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You Don't Say

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Character(s): Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Fill the letter into the corresponding numbered blank to find the answers to five one-line jokes.
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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Some of the books going around are scandalous!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee is curious when Betty and Berdie are discussing a book.
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The Closet Caper

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee
First Line: Let me out! Somebody let me out!
Synopsis: Reggie's practical joke on Archie backfires.
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The Unhappy King

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Genres: drama
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Freeze Tease

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
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Who Is Sybil Floon?

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Smithers
Synopsis: When Mr. Lodge tells Veronica to date someone "practical and economy-minded", Archie goes out of his way to be cheap, going as far as using a dead woman's birthday cake.
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First Line: Archie, you’re not going to walk home in this storm!
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Letter Looney

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: Archie and Reggie are impressed by all of the hot girls who answered Jughead's appeal for a pen pal. But Jughead isn't so impressed.
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The Neighbors!

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Genres: adventure, humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley
Synopsis: Archie, Betty and Veronica are chased away from a house by the new inhabitants' vicious dog. Betty goes back to the house to apologize for snooping, and gets kidnapped and tied up in the basement.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Big Moose Gag Bag
First Line: Moose, did you see that movie on TV about the courageous athlete who overcame his physical handicap?
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The Head Man

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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Reggie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge
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Bold Cold

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Jughead
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Jughead shares his cold remedy.
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My Hero!

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Smithers the butler
Synopsis: Veronica sends Archie to pick up a ten-foot sub sandwich from the deli for a party she's throwing later. Archie makes the mistake of allowing Jughead to accompany him.
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Civic Duty

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee leaves Jughead to take a delivery. But an altered street sign causes Jughead to take the wrong delivery.
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Great Skate

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Betty tries to break up Archie and Veronica's skating date on the frozen pond by causing them to skate over thin ice.
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First Line: Dis new electric drill don’t vork so good!
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