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Issue: Archie's Super Hero Special #1
Publication Date: January 1978
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Red Circle Productions Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/31/1978
Volume: none
Pages: 148
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 0271000691283
Price: $0.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 26 (20 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #162.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest size (5 1/2" x 8 1/2")
Paper Stock:  
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, teen
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Pages: 1
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Blank Page

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Nightmare World of the Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Skull; the Abominable Schemer
First Line: On... on... on through the night, spreading havoc wherever his steed gallops, speeds the Skull, the most terrible foe the Black Hood has ever opposed!
Synopsis: After another defeat by the Black Hood, The Skull offers 1 million dollars to anyone who devise a way to kill the hero. The Abominable Schemer then gives the Skull his plan to kill the Black Hood --in his sleep.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMighty Comics #47 published June 1967
was The Nightmare World of the Skull! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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The PH Factor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
First Line: If you can conceive of an Archie capable of violence, dedicated to dealing out swift justice to those who threaten the peace and safety of Betty and Veronica, then you can believe this strange and eerie tale...
Synopsis: Archie discovers that by calling on his own PH Factor he can become Pureheart the Powerful. Unfortunately, the PH factor is so strong that it makes everyone forget they saw Pureheart or recognize him as Archie.
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From Content Item: FlagLife with Archie #46 published February 1966
was The PH Factor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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It All Began...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
First Line: It wasn't always thus!
Synopsis: Origin of Betty Cooper in her superhero identity as Superteen. While trapped on a ledge with Archie, Betty's hair gets twisted and she becomes Superteen.
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From Content Item: FlagBetty and Me #3 published August 1966
was It All Began... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Monster Mouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Everyone knows that a mouse is the world's lowliest animal...
Synopsis: The Jaguar battles a mouse that has grown to giant size after being exposed to mysterious undersea radiation.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventures of the Jaguar #1 published September 1961
was The Monster Mouse! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Plight of the Bumblebee!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
Character(s): The Bee
First Line: Striking with the force of a thousand tiny needles, the swarming hordes of the Bee wreak havoc in the normally quiet halls of the Riverdale Museum!!
Synopsis: Evilheart and Pureheart fight The Bee, a villain who commands a swarm of bees.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagReggie and Me #20 published October 1966
was The Plight of the Bumblebee! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Divided into Part 1 and Part 2.
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Marco's Eyes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mister Marco; Dolly; Slats Dillon; J.B. Bascombe; Dolly
First Line: These are the eyes of a man who lives only for vengeance!
Synopsis: At a talent show, Marco loses. He gets mobsters to finance a big-eyed billboard that hypnotizes bankers and jewelers to steal goods and deliver to thugs. The Fly beats a thug and learns the sign has periscope and speaker that magnifies Marco's hypnotism. The Fly enters and is hypnotized, but cons Marco into taking a bow, breaking his glare. "The 'eyes' have it!"
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From Content Item: FlagThe Fly [Adventures of the Fly] #2 published September 1959
was Marcos Eyes [sic] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Quick Justice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Feature(s): Sorcery
First Line: Yep! It's called 'The Hanging Tree!'
Synopsis: An art thief gets an appropriate punishment for trying to steal a painting of a hanging.
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From Content Item: FlagChilling Adventures in Sorcery as Told by Sabrina #1 published September 1972
was Quick Justice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Ultimate Cure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. Kingston; Helen
First Line: You remember Dr. Kingston? ---Handsome hunk of a man!
Synopsis: A doctor is scratched by a patient, and soon finds himself infected with a disease that transforms him into a hideous monster.
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From Content Item: FlagChilling Adventures in Sorcery as Told by Sabrina #2 published October 1972
was The Ultimate Cure [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Pureheart the Powerful in the Center Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
Character(s): The Mad Clown; Lungwort; Hypno the Great (The Mad Clown in disguise)
First Line: That girl! The black haired one! - I must get her!
Synopsis: While at a circus, a mad clown with murder on his mind kidnaps Veronica because she looks like his ex-wife. When Archie and Reggie can't find Veronica, they become Pureheart and Evilheart to save the young socialite.
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From Content Item: FlagArchie as Pureheart the Powerful #3 published February 1967
was Terror in the Center Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Story is in two parts.
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
Colors previously credited to Sal Contrera.
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Black Fog

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hal Thunder [Johnny Dorran]
First Line: Slowly the black fog closed in, destroying his awareness, and then...
Synopsis: A man experiencing weird hallucinations comes to realize he's been participating in twenty-first century psycho-acting techniques.
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From Content Item: FlagRed Circle Sorcery #6 published April 1974
was Black Fog [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Meet Lancelot Strong, the Man with the Double Life!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Who is this man? What is he?
Synopsis: Introduction to the character of Lancelot Strong, the Shield.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Double Life of Private Strong #1 published June 1959
was Meet Lancelot Strong, The Man With The Double Life! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Simon & Kirby version of the Shield from 1959.
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The Double Life of Private Strong

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Professor Malcolm Fleming; Roger Fleming; Agent Four; Abel Strong; Martha Strong
Synopsis: A young child is experimented on in a government facility and gains enhanced abilities. After surviving a car wreck, he is adopted by the Strong family and named Lancelot.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Double Life of Private Strong #1 published June 1959
was The Double Life of Private Strong [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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Spawn of the 'X' World!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spud
First Line: The years pass by -- and the amazing experiments of Professor Fleming still lie in the wreckage now hidden by a forest in Fairfield County...
Synopsis: Lancelot Strong discovers the wrecked vehicle of Professor Fleming and dons the costume he finds inside. In short order, he finds himself battling an alien and telling the police to call him 'Shield'.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Double Life of Private Strong #1 published June 1959
was Spawn of the "X" World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Origin of The Shield, part 2.
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Mystery of the Vanished Wreckage

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spud; Agent Four; Abel Strong; Martha Strong
First Line: What fervent plea from the dim past uncoiling soundlessly from the memory of an extraordinary man, could spur him to streak straight toward the gaping mouth of a levelled cannon?
Synopsis: Lancelot goes to explore the wreckage where he found his costume, and his memories of the experiments on him as a child return. When he heads home, he discovers he's been drafted into the army.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Double Life of Private Strong #1 published June 1959
was Mystery of the Vanished Wreckage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The preceding Shield stories make up the first 17 pages of The Double Life of Private Strong (Archie, 1959 series) #1, with introduction and origin.
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The Decidedly Decent Demon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
Character(s): Decent Demon (villain)
First Line: Awfully sorry, old chap! It distresses me to see you tied up like that!
Synopsis: The Decent Demon politely robs all of Riverdale until Captain Hero can find a way to stop him.
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From Content Item: FlagJughead as Captain Hero #6 published August 1967
was The Decidedly Decent Demon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Credits from the reprinting in Archie & Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #29.
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Maid of Mischief

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
Character(s): Magnet-Girl (villain)
First Line: Fear not, Archie! I, Superteen, will rescue you from the fearsome fate which has descended upon you!!
Synopsis: Superteen battles Magnet-Girl, a beautiful woman whose special gun gives her the power to make anyone a "magnet" for anything, including making Veronica a mustard magnet and Archie a girl magnet.
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From Content Item: FlagBetty and Me #4 published October 1966
was Maid of Mischief [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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Familiars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: When men still lived in tribes, magic ruled his world.
Synopsis: Information about familiars.
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From Content Item: FlagChilling Adventures in Sorcery #3 published October 1973
was Familiars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Web Versus the Flipper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Flipper
First Line: Down along a twisting, curving corridor at City Hall, twists and flips the famed bizarre costumed thief known as... the Flipper!
Synopsis: When the Flipper makes a fool out of the Web, Rosie encourages her husband to take out the acrobatic crook once and for all.
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From Content Item: FlagMighty Comics #46 published May 1967
was The Web versus the Flipper [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Werewolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines lycanthropy: 'assumption of the form and traits of a wolf by witchcraft or magic.'
Synopsis: Information about werewolves.
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From Content Item: FlagRed Circle Sorcery #6 published April 1974
was The Werewolf [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Mad Doctor Doom's Dupe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
First Line: On the outskirts of Riverdale in an old abandoned pretzel factory, an evil man, mad Doctor Doom, is working furiously towards an evil end... The domination of the world!
Synopsis: Mad Doctor Doom cons Evilheart into testing out a deadly world-domination device, the killer robot Computo.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagLife with Archie #48 published April 1966
was Mad Doctor Doom's Dupe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Story is told in two parts.
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Best Regards, Captain Pureheart

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero, teen
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest
First Line: Looking for something different?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #9.
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Blank Page

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie Comics Digest
First Line: Stories, puzzles, jokes. Pages of fun and laughter in full color!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #34.
Cover art featured is a mashup of Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #33 and #34.
Back cover.

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