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Issue: World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #12
Publication Date: January 2012
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Issues: #12 of 145 Issues (192 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: The Archie LibraryView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/23/2011
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76281646850301211
Price: $3.99 USD
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Content Items: 54 (29 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: ongoing series
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis: Archie and the girls waist deep in snow
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Archie Comics & Popfunk
Synopsis: Promo for Archie t-shirts from popfunk.com
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The Challenge

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Nancy Woods; Svenson; Rita Sanchez; Jughead Jones; Ms. Beazly; Dilton Doiley; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Archie Andrews; Chuck Clayton; Mr. Weatherbee; Ms. Haskell; Mr. Schonwald; Miss Phlips
First Line: You look tired, Betty... real tired!
Synopsis: Assistant principal Sanchez leads a brainstorming session where students propose ways to cut school costs. Mr. Weatherbee thinks their ideas are ridiculous and impractical, but Betty and the drama coach share film of the sessions with a member of the state board of education. He sees that it makes the point with comedy, and congratulates Mr. Weatherbee for his school's creating such a powerful tool in the budget debates.
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Tall Brawl

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Milo; Ann; Archie Andrews; Dan; Stan
First Line: How's the air up there, Milo? Yuk! Yuk!
Synopsis: Milo is annoyed at people commenting on his great height. When Archie innocently asks, "what's up?," Milo decks him.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Kermit; Fozzie; Gonzo; Animal; Miss Piggy
First Line: The Muppets now starring in... books!
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Josie; Albert
First Line: Archie wall art now available
Synopsis: Ad for posters from AllPosters.com
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Dear Old Dad

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Barney; Miss Grundy; Miss Phlips; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
First Line: Yes, Archie! Son! This is my family! These are my children! I always think of you that way! My little brood! I guess I'm just a sentimental old fool!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee tells Archie he feels like a father to his students. Soon they are addressing him as Pop and deluging him for advice on their personal problems. Mr. Weatherbee holds an assembly and roars that he is to be treated with due respect. He sends a sympathy card to Archie's father.
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Write This Down...

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Beazly; Dilton Doiley; Veronica Lodge; Professor Flutesnoot; Miss Grundy; Charlie Perkins; Big Moose Mason; Pop Tate; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Betty Cooper; Miss Phlips
First Line: I'm going to need another shelf if I keep adding to my collection of die-cast model planes!
Synopsis: Riverdale High students kid about Mr. Weatherbee's limp, and about his being bald and overweight. Archie spots him at an air show, in deep conversation with another older man. That man (Perkins) tells Archie that Wild Waldy Weatherbee was the best helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Among other things, he saved Perkins' life at great risk to his own, being wounded in the process. Archie writes about this in a school essay. Warned by Miss Grundy that the principal is a very private man, students never reveal what they know, but they treat Mr. Weatherbee with deep respect.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Ms. Beazly; Mr. Weatherbee
First Line: What are you supposed to be?
Synopsis: Archie is working in the school cafeteria for Ms. Beazly. In down times they play word games with alphabet noodles and a waffle.
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Kiss Bliss

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: Winning entry by Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Archie wins a blue ribbon for his airplane model. Betty kisses him, and he awards the ribbon to her.
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Feature(s): How to Train Your Dragon
First Line: How to Train Your Dragon
Synopsis: Ad for books in the How To Train Your Dragon series from Little, Brown.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Over 400 pages of the best Archie comics!
Synopsis: Promo, with order coupon, for The Best Of Archie Comics book from Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Archie's Mad House
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Captain Sprocket
First Line: I... I can't hold them back any longer!
Synopsis: Splash page; Archie blocking a door with Mad House characters pushing through
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Denny the Drifter

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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Archie's Mad House
Character(s): Denny the Drifter; Boob the Barbarian; Kink the Conqueror; Moogaipan; Pearl
First Line: Holy cow! My do-it-yourself time machine really works! I've transported myself back in time!
Synopsis: Denny the Drifter, using his time machine, visits the past. With modern paraphernalia such as fly spray, a TV, and a Frisbee, he overcomes obstacles to scale a mountain and win a 200-pound pearl. This turns out to be a desperate overweight girl named Pearl.
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Master Disaster

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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Archie's Mad House
Character(s): Robert Pinkford
First Line: Hi! I'm Robert Pinkford, king of the disaster movies, taking you on a tour of the studios!
Synopsis: A disaster movie director tells tall tales about how he produced the movies' special effects.
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You Know You're a Monster If...

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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Archie's Mad House
Character(s): Werewolf; mummy; giant ape; Frankenstein's monster; swamp creature; vampire
First Line: ...you need a shave everytime there's a full moon!
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Berserk Quirk

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Feature(s): Archie's Mad House
Character(s): Frankenstein's monster; movie director
First Line: That monster is too tame!
Synopsis: The movie makers need a really angry monster, so the director tells him that he won't get paid.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): The Archies
First Line: Archie meets KISS
Synopsis: Promo, with order coupon, for Archie Meets KISS 4-issue mini-series
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Access the entire Archie Comics digital universe!
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Gimme a Break!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Ouch! Archie's lack of coordination has given him a broken arm!
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Minstrels of Yore

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Character(s): The Archies [Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones]; Mr. Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Professor Flutesnoot
First Line: Daddy, why are you driving away those minstrels?
Synopsis: Ye Archies are a band of Medieval minstrels. Sir Lodge hires them to rid his castle of rats, which Jughead does by singing. Rampaging hordes approach, but Sir Reggie promises to drive them away single-handedly. When he fails, Jughead drives them off by singing.
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Archie's fashion craze! Cut-outs!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Betty Cooper (picture); Veronica Lodge (picture); Midge Klump (picture)
First Line: Archie varsity sweater
Synopsis: "Paper doll" costumes for Archie.
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What's in a Name?

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Percy Winebred [Thunderbolt Blast]; Percy's girl friend; the Exterminator; Exterminator's girl friend; Dilton Doiley [Killer]; Mad Dog
First Line: Hey, hey, hey! Ho, ho, ho and a wow wee wow!
Synopsis: Jughead steers Archie away from girls by warning him about their frighteningly-named boy friends; actually, Jughead comes up with the names as public relations for inoffensive fellows. Reggie finds out and moves in on the Exterminator's girl friend. The Exterminator, though, is real.
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A Fine Example

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
First Line: You'd better get your head examined!
Synopsis: Miss Grundy draws moral lessons from the hard-working ant. Reggie points out that he still gets stepped on in the end.
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Feature(s): Kevin Keller
Character(s): Kevin Keller
First Line: Order yours today!
Synopsis: Promo, with order coupon, for four-issue Kevin Keller mini-series plus Veronica # 202 (Kevin's first appearance)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Archie marries Betty & Veronica!
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Mayor for a Day

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Stuart Smart; Alison; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
First Line: Eeyyoooww!!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee is relieved when Stuart Smart beats Archie in the election for week-long teen mayor of Riverdale, but Stuart names Archie as the new school superintendent.
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Veronica's Wonderful Life! Part 1

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Sugarplum Fairy; Hiram Lodge; Hermione Lodge; Leroy Lodge; Archie Andrews; Cheryl Blossom
First Line: What a miserable winter night!
Synopsis: Veronica watches "It's a Pretty Good Life" at Christmastime, and wonders what life would be like had she never existed. Sugarplum Fairy shows her Riverdale impoverished without Lodge spending; Veronica's parents lavishing affection on her cousin Leroy; and Archie in love with Cheryl Blossom.
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Feature(s): Archie
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: On sale now!
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Genres: fantasy, humorous, teen
Character(s): Sabrina Spellman; Salem; fairies
First Line: The Best of Sabrina the Teenage Witch
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Veronica's Wonderful Life! Part 2

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Genres: fantasy, humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Cheryl Blossom; Sugarplum Fairy; Midge Klump; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Look at the way she controls him!! That's my job!! There's Betty! Thank goodness!
Synopsis: Continuing her journey through an alternate world without Veronica, Veronica sees Betty trapped in an unsatisfactory relationship with Reggie; Jughead as a ladies man; the gang broken up by business closings and school cutbacks. She celebrates a world in which she is a force for good after all.
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George and Ginger

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Genres: humorous, science fiction, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; George; Hermione Lodge; Ginger
First Line: Archie, meet George! He's our part time replacement for Smithers!
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge leaves the house, instructing the robot butler to block teen access to the refrigerator, and to chaperone the romantic young couple. Archie and Veronica introduce George to Veronica's robot maid Ginger. Since the robots are programmed to act like real people, they concentrate on each other's company and ignore the teens.
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The Collection

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Rita Sanchez; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Miss Phlips; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones
First Line: Mr. Weatherbee, about this collectors' show our school is running...
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee confiscates a handheld video game from Archie and tosses it into a bin of such items going back 20 years. He's deeply frustrated trying to get $8,000 more from the school board for new student computers. While Mr. Weatherbee is busy, Mrs. Sanchez mistakes the video games as offerings for the school collectors' show. A visitor pays the school $15,000 for the games, and Mr. Weatherbee gives Archie two days off.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Barack Obama; Sarah Palin
First Line: Order today!
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First Line: The original seven Archie 'Will You Marry Me?' issues now available as a set!
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Character(s): Josie; Pepper; Melody
First Line: She's Josie
Synopsis: Illustration of the three girls
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The Great One Part I

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Character(s): Josie; Pepper; Melody; Great One
First Line: Melody! Josie's going over the cliff!
Synopsis: The girls get lost while skiing, and shelter for the night in an isolated cabin. In the morning the mysterious Great One appears, manifesting strange powers and announcing that he is conqueror of the universe -- now including Earth. The terrified girls wonder if this is the end, but Melody points out that it's only the end of Part One.
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The Great One Part II

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Character(s): Josie; Pepper; Melody; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Great One [Beaver; Mysto]
First Line: ...and now... while my people mop up the last few pockets of resistance. I shall teach you how to treat your new leader!
Synopsis: The Great One requires the terrified girls to make the cabin fit for a conqueror. At his command they clean the place, cook his meal, trim his hair. When they spot the boys searching for them, the girls risk their lives to warn them away, but an annoyed Alex storms into the cabin. He knows full well that the hermit there is an ex-Vaudeville magician who has used his talents to bamboozle some service.
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Over Dated Part I

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Character(s): Josie; Josie's dad; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Pepper; Melody
First Line: "Both?" You dated both for the same dance?
Synopsis: Josie carelessly dates both Alex and Albert for the dance. Pepper and Melody help her razzle-dazzle the boys, so that neither one realizes she's running between them. Josie confuses them further when she scolds them for spending too much time with the other girls.
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Under Manned Part II

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Character(s): Josie; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Pepper; Melody
First Line: For Pete's sake! Anybody could have fixed that door!
Synopsis: The girls continue their razzle-dazzle until the boys give up and commiserate with each other. Neither realizes that the other had a date with Josie. Both are bewildered as to whom Pepper and Melody came with. The girls think it's all hilarious.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jinx
First Line: Access the entire Archie Comics digital universe!
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Wow, it's nice and warm in your house, Reggie.
Synopsis: Reggie ran out of money before buying Jughead's Christmas gift, so he's giving him a defective football. Jughead won't find out until next fall, but it's the thought that counts.
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Season's Greetings

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Feature(s): Big Moose
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Pop Tate
First Line: Duh! I saw that!
Synopsis: Reggie takes advantage of gifts and mistletoe to kiss Midge. Moose is furious, but Archie convinces him that Christmas is not the season for hitting people. Moose rigs up a booby-trapped gift that does the job for him.
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Lunch Crunch

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Ms. Beazly; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Svenson; Professor Flutesnoot; Miss Grundy; Miss Haggly
First Line: Archie.. would you please take this lunch to Mr. Weatherbee?
Synopsis: Archie is carrying a tray with Mr. Weatherbee's lunch to the principal's office. Weatherbee imagines all the things that could go wrong with Archie involved, and puts out a panic call for the nurse, the custodian, the chemistry teacher, and Miss Grundy. He collides with all of them in the hall, but Archie delivers the lunch perfectly.
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Strung Out

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): The Archies [Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle]
First Line: A banjo, Betty? You're going to play the banjo?
Synopsis: Betty shakes a great tambourine for the Archies, but now she wants to play the banjo. Only Reggie has the courage to tell her how bad she is at playing it. Told to find some other use for the thing, she clobbers him with it.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Order today!
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Archie Babies
Character(s): Baby Archie Andrews; Baby Betty Cooper; Baby Veronica Lodge; Baby Jughead Jones; Baby Moose Mason; Baby Dilton Doily
First Line: On sale now!
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Holidazed and Confused

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Chuck Clayton
First Line: Archie, this is a great idea!
Synopsis: Archie suggests that the gang go caroling to raise money for the town senior center, but he has a cold, and his voice sounds terrible. Reggie points out that they're not taking in any money, and tells Archie to absent himself. When the rest of the gang insists that Archie be returned, Reggie brings him back, but with a muffler across his mouth.
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Holiday Hassle

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Dilton Doiley; Jenna
First Line: This year I'm going to do my Christmas shopping way in advance and get it done early!
Synopsis: Archie decides to do his Christmas shopping early and avoid the aggravation. But with long lines, competition for scarce products, and impending sales that make it more sensible to buy later, he spends the whole day accomplishing nothing, making him sour about Christmas.
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Now You're Cooking!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Ms. Beazly; Chuck Clayton
First Line: Yum! Lunch sure was tasty today!
Synopsis: Ms. Beazly always serves an extra-special cafeteria meal the day before Christmas vacation, and the students worry that since she has no family, she'll be lonely for the holiday. Jughead asks her to join his family for Christmas dinner, and she's touched, but says she will be too busy doing some cooking of her own. It turns out that each year she creates a spectacular Christmas meal at the Riverdale Rescue Mission, where patrons and volunteers honor her deeply.
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Character(s): Kevin Keller
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Kevin Keller
First Line: Everything's Archie
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Character(s): Super Mario
First Line: Super Mario 3D Land
Synopsis: Ad for Super Mario 3D Land computer game from Nintendo
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Anakin Skywalker
First Line: Relive the adventure!
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