Issue | #34 |
Published | May 1981 |
Cover Price | 0.75 USD |
Pages | 132 |
Editing | John L. Goldwater |
Notes | Indicia title is "Laugh Comics Digest Magazine." Copyright Close-Up, Inc. |
Characters | Jughead Jones; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mangle; Archie Andrews; Li'l Jinx; Josie; Bingo; Little Archie; Moose Mason; Katy Keene; Randy Keene |
Genre | humor |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo (signed) |
Notes | Indicia title is "Laugh Comics Digest Magazine." Copyright Close-Up, Inc. |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews |
Synopsis | Archie is too frequently careless at home so his father decides that anyone who breaks the dishes next will have to wash all the windows. Of course Archie's father is next to break some dishes. |
Genre | humor |
Reprinted | from Archie (Archie, 1962 series) #233 |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge |
Synopsis | Archie makes a comparison of Mr. Lodge's wealth in a way jughead can understand. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones |
Synopsis | Archie and Jughead help Archie's dad fix the roof. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews |
Synopsis | a maze |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father |
Synopsis | Jinx is sick so her father walks a neighbor's dog, discovering where Jinx goes when the dog leads him. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Della |
Synopsis | Sabrina refuses to take up the deviltry of witchcraft as practiced by her family and the Head Witch, Della, attempts to discipline her. But Sabrina is protected by love. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Mr. Flutesnoot; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mantle (cameo); Archie Andrews (cameo) |
Synopsis | Dilton uses Archie's gasoline buying habits as an example when converting metric units. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jodie; Jodie's father; Jodie's grandfather |
Synopsis | Jodie's family is found camping on the Lodge's property and during a scuffle to get them to move out, their van careens down a hill with Jodie inside. But Archie saves the day with a daring jump. |
Genre | humor; adventure |
Notes | In two Parts. |
Reprinted | from Life With Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #158 |
Characters | Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Mr. Antoinne; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones |
Synopsis | The girls get new hairdos but the boys don't notice. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Sampson Smythe; Samantha Smythe; Shiela Smythe; Bingo Wilkin |
Synopsis | Samantha is tired of her dad treating her like a little girl and accidentally scares her dad when he overhears her conversation with Bingo and misinterprets is as a marriage proposal. |
Genre | humor |
Notes | In one panel, Samantha's shirt loses its color. |
Reprinted | from That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #25 |
Characters | Sampson Smythe; Samantha Smythe; Bingo Wilkin (cameo); Mr. Wilkin |
Synopsis | Sampson tries to show how connected he is with his daughter by dancing, but he dances a waltz to a boogaloo song. |
Genre | humor |
Reprinted | from That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #25 |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; student; professor |
Synopsis | Miss Grundy gets a new job at a private school, but Archie finds a way to show her she won't fit in, before she makes the final decision. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Waldo Weatherbee; Svenson |
Synopsis | Svenson has let maintenance backlog too long. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper |
Synopsis | In trying to help Betty and Veronica settle an argument, Archie and Reggie come to blows. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father |
Synopsis | Variation on the old "draw a horse and the horse will draw the wagon" gag. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Aunt Hilda; Pushy Products salesman; Sabrina |
Synopsis | Hilda resorts to witchcraft and even physically throws out a salesman who won't take no for an answer...and Sabrina walks in and buys from him. |
Genre | humor |
Notes | In one panel, Hilda's hat loses its color. |
Synopsis | puzzle page |
Characters | Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews (cameo); farmer |
Synopsis | Fred walks into a farm field thinking a sign offers it for sale, only to find it is the farmer's bull that's for sale. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Freddy; Dilton Doily |
Synopsis | Freddy wants attention, so he grabs things when no one is looking and then claims to "find" them, to accolades from everyone. |
Genre | humor |
Notes | In final panel, Freddy's shirt is missing some black lines. |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones |
Synopsis | Veronica is a acting strangely, not speaking to Archie, and he discovers it's a plot of Betty's to keep Veronica from going to the dance this weekend. |
Genre | humor |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Includes 2 illustrations. |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father |
Synopsis | Jinx refuses to throw out a broken doll and claims to sell it to Gigi to prove its value. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Josie McCoy; Valerie Brown; Melody Valentine; Alexandra Cabot; Alan M. Mayberry (cameo); club owner |
Synopsis | Valerie goes away to take care of a sick grandmother but the girls don't believe her and blame her leaving on a club owner, so they play poorly on purpose. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Big Ethel Muggs; Betty Cooper; Ralph; Flabbus Lippum; Hi Jacks |
Synopsis | Ethel's new parrot, Ralph, flies away each night and one night lays an egg in an abandoned house used by crooks. Ralph makes such a ruckus repeating crime show scenes that the crooks fall into the basement of the house and are trapped. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper |
Synopsis | Archie shines up his old jalopy but it's still just as noisy as ever so Veronica refuses to ride in it. But Betty both sees the beauty and welcomes any excuse to be with Archie. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Katy Keene; Sis; Billy; Randy Van Ronson |
Synopsis | Sis buys Billy a space helmet for his birthday and uses a fishbowl for a helmet for herself, becoming stuck and unable to enjoy the birthday goodies. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Louis H. Silberkleit (business manager) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | For October 1, 1980. Editor: John L. Goldwater, Managing Editor: Richard H. Goldwater, Publisher: Close-Up Inc., Sales through dealers (average copies each issue): 132,167, Subscriptions (average copies each issue): 17. |
Characters | Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle |
Synopsis | Veronica accidentally invites both guys on a date, where Reggie shows off so much that she finally sneaks away with just Archie. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Pat; Susie; Blinky; Pat's mother |
Synopsis | Pat believes in superstitions such as walking under a ladder being bad luck, but gets the worst end of things trying to avoid them. |
Genre | humor |
Synopsis | Plans top build a ball toss target, and a vocabulary quiz. |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle |
Synopsis | Reggie delays Archie from an appointment with Veronica, only to find they were planning his surprise birthday party. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Rebel; Willie Wilkin; Mrs. Wilkin |
Synopsis | Rebel believes the statistics on accidents in the kitchen refer to the meals-gone-bad that he has to eat. |
Genre | humor |
Reprinted | from That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #25 |
Characters | Little Archie; Jughead; Betty; Reggie; Veronica; Miss Grundy |
Synopsis | Archie fails a test and Miss Grundy recommends he study with Betty and Veronica, who both aced it. But Betty spends the time playing house and Veronica becomes angry, so the only subject he does well in is war. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Herbie; woman; police officers; Pop Tate |
Synopsis | Archie and Jughead dress up in some old Scottish costumes, accidentally scare a neighbor, and pay off Herbie with ice cream so he won't tell the police who scared the neighbor. |
Genre | humor |
Reprinted | from Archie (Archie, 1962 series) #234 |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's friend |
Synopsis | Li'l Jinx has trouble spelling Mississippi. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Archie Andrews |
Synopsis | Jughead opines about why airports are far out of towns. |
Genre | humor |
Characters | Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews |
Synopsis | Order form for comic book. |
Characters | Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge |
Synopsis | House ad for Archie digest comics. |
Notes | Back cover. |