Archie (1943 Archie Comics) comic books

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $525.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4460694001

Stories by unknown. Art by Dan DeCarlo and unknown. When Jughead buys up all of the hula hoops in town, Archie and Reggie want a piece of the action in "Circle Sale"! Plus: When Smithers tosses Archie out of the Lodge mansion and into the trash, Betty declares that he now belongs to her in "To Have And To Hold"; Reggie names his baseball bat after Veronica in "Bats and Brawls"; Archie's Fun Page; Archie blows a tire while he and Jughead are on their way fishing in "Fishy Story"; and when Veronica is transferred out of his class, Archie is left in a daze in "Teacher's Pest"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $49.00

Cover pencils by Harry Lucey. "Lead 'em and Weep," pencils by Harry Lucey; When Archie gets a card from a weight and fortune machine that says he's "fearless, determined, strong-willed and a born leader," he gets conceited; Reggie tries to knock him down a peg by bribing a boy to ask Archie to lead his club on a hike in the forest. "Blackboard Blues!"; Miss Grundy can't get her students to pay attention in class; Mr. Weatherbee suggests that the only thing that interests teenagers is television, which gives Miss Grundy an idea to solve the problem. "Well Attired"; While looking for a tire for his car in the city dump, Archie finds a box containing a pearl necklace. Archie Annual ad. "Gone to the Dogs," script by Frank Doyle, art by Samm Schwartz; Reggie gets Jughead in trouble by hiding a rabbit in his desk; Mr. Weatherbee decides to make Reggie "game warden" of the high school to keep students from bringing pets to school and gives him a whistle. Archie Club news. "Hair Pressure"; Veronica sends Archie to pick up a package from René's Beauty Shoppe; When Reggie and Betty see him come out of the shop they razz him and he gets more grief from other students the next day at school. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $16.50

Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Bill Vigoda, Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards and unknown. Reggie spoils Moose's surprise party by telling Moose that he's seen Midge with Archie in "Double Trouble Cross!" Plus: Archie and Jughead keep causing Mr. Lodge to have accidents around the pool in "Pool Sharks"; Betty and Veronica in the half-pager "Li'l Bit of Knowledge"; Jughead in the 1-pager "Fancy Finance"; Archie in the half-pager "Two Bees or Lots of Bees!"; Reggie in the half-pager "Snakes Alive!"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "The Price Is Right!" by Joe Edwards; Reggie lends Archie five dollars on the condition that Archie won't ask Veronica out until he's repaid the loan in "Bound to Agree"; and Archie forgets that he has a date with Veronica, even though she specifically tells him not to forget, in "Memory Lame"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $5.40

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $5.40

Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics, Joe Edwards, Samm Schwartz, Bill Vigoda, Bob White and unknown. Pop Tate becomes an expert at "Spin-a-plate" in "Spinner Winner"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Money Problems" by Joe Edwards; Mr. Weatherbee asks Moose to mail a letter in the 1-pager "Returned Male!"; Veronica believes she heard a prowler and Archie and Reggie investigate in "Foul Prowl"; Archie's Pal Jughead in the 1-pager "Accident Prone"; Veronica is sitting with a sick friend and Archie suspects she's seeing another guy in "The Awful Truth"; and Reggie helps Archie start his jalopy, then leaves him behind and takes Veronica to "Cuddle Cove" in "Car Sick"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $32.00

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $15.00

Cover pencils by Harry Lucey. "Sing Away, Stool Pigeon"!, pencils by Harry Lucey; Mr. Weatherbee is upset when someone puts cement in the janitor's mop bucket; He gathers the gang around and says unless one of them confesses, all will stay after school. "Take a Chance"; Archie is so love-sick that he can't sell any raffle tickets for the Student Council; Reggie and Betty convince Veronica to give Archie a pep talk to sell tickets. Archie Giant Series ad. "Wrong Ago"; When Archie hears that the coach is hosting a dance for football team members and their dates, he talks Coach Kleats into letting him on the team for the last game. Archie Club News. "Window Pain," pencils by Harry Lucey; Mr. Weatherbee is giving an lecture on first aid and has Archie bring down the props he will need, which automatically means Archie and Jughead will run over him with a wheelchair. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $12.00

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Sy Reit, Joe Harold, Frank Doyle and unknown. Art by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick, Joe Harold and Bill Vigoda & Terry Szenics. Archie announces that he and Veronica have agreed to go steady, but he soon begins to realize he's not ready to make that kind of commitment in "Is He Ready To Go Steady"! Plus: Shrimpy in the half-pagers "Tree Thoughts" and "Down and Out!" by Joe Harold; Veronica tells Archie to dress in English style like the other boys in the half-pager "Blimey, What a Limey!"; the boys wonder how Professor Flutesnoot decides on their grades in the half-pager "He Aims to Please!"; Archie tells Mr. Weatherbee to imagine what the school would be like if the students were all perfect in "Just Imagine!"; Betty gets Archie grounded by casually revealing that he and Veronica were out last night until after one in "Parole Denied"; Moose is too short to make the basketball team in the half-pager "Tall Story"; and Archie and Veronica write little coded symbols on the sidewalk so they'll know where to find each other in "The Mark of Archie"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $11.00 Interior pen marking.

Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Archie breaks a date to spend the night at home with his neglected parents in "Beauty or Duty!" Plus: Li'l Jinx is confused about balloons in the 1-pager "Up in the Air!"; Archie speculates on why Mr. Lodge dislikes him in "All in a Day's Work"; Archie and Reggie reminisce about the carefree days of their youth in "Those Were the Days!"; Archie is unhappy when Veronica pays the bill in the half-pager "The Big Spender"; and Reggie tries to trick Archie into believing that he can imagine things into being in "Imagination"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $13.75

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $5.49

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Sy Reit and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Bill Vigoda, Bob White and Terry Szenics. After Mr. Lodge cuts his finger on an old dueling sword, a rumor spreads around town that he got the injury by fighting Archie in a duel in "Duel Personality"! Plus: With great determination, Archie heads over to Veronica's house to tell her that he's breaking their date in "Birds of a Feather Flock Together"; Jughead and Reggie make fun of Archie's new tam o'shanter, but all the girls seem to love it in "Cap the Climax"; Mr. Lodge asks Veronica and Archie to turn down the music while he's working in the half-pager "Show Off"; and after Miss Grundy gives them detention yet again, Archie and Jughead decide to try getting on her good side by giving her flowers in "Board To Tears"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $65.00

Cover by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards, Sy Reit and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Bill Vigoda and Terry Szenics. Trying to get rid of a hideous vase his wife gave him, Mr. Lodge puts Archie in the room with the vase and specifically tells him not to break it, figuring that this will doom the vase to destruction in "The Visitor"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "First Aid!" by Joe Edwards; Archie in the half-pager "Step By Step!"; Reggie in the half-pager "Matter Over Mind!"; the school is holding a "patch hop" where a boy has to go with any girl who catches him and sews a patch on his pants in "Patch As Patch Can"; Archie convinces Mr. Weatherbee to play classical music over the P.A. system to calm the students down in "Unsound of Music"; and Fred is infuriated when the peace and quiet of his home is invaded by Archie's friends in "The Gang's All Here!" 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $20.00

Add to cart GD 2.0 $18.00

Cover by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Bill Vigoda, Terry Szenics and Marty Epp. Archie brings a bowling ball to school, and it keeps getting away from him and causing destruction in "Bowl Game"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Keeping In Touch!" by Joe Edwards; Mr. Weatherbee wonders why the students are afraid of him in the 1-pager "Principal's Principle"; a stiff neck leaves Archie unable to hold his head up straight in "A New Twist"; Moose will be disqualified from the big game unless he passes a test, so Archie disguises himself as Moose to take the test in his place in "Painful Proxy"; and a pesky fly gets Archie in trouble in Miss Grundy's class, but then gets him out of trouble with Mr. Weatherbee in "The Fly"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $30.00

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, George Gladir, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Dan DeCarlo, Bill Vigoda, Joe Edwards, Terry Szenics, Rudy Lapick and Marty Epp. After the boys suggest that bowling is a great way to get in shape, the girls decide to come along to the bowling alley and take up the game themselves in "Spare That Strike"! Plus: The girls chide the boys for lying around all day doing nothing, and insist on going to the beach in "Capricious Caper"; wanting to be fought over in an old-fashioned competition, Veronica offers a date to whichever boy wins an obstacle race in "To the Winner"; the guys discuss the harrowing, risky experiences they had at the beach that day in "Daredevil Daffy"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Do Not Disturb!" by Joe Edwards; and when Archie sees Reggie with Veronica, he astonishes everyone by playing it cool and not losing his temper in "The Cool One"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $17.00 View scan

First 12c cover priced issue. Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Terry Szenics, Marty Epp and unknown. Archie accidentally gets an experimental chemical spilled on him, which causes him to switch bodies with a dog in "Dog's Best Friend"! Plus: Archie and Reggie act as judges at the state high school boxing championships, while professing scorn for the "barbaric" sport in "Big Fight Tonight"; Jughead gets a "bean-bouncer," a balloon attached to a headband and elastic, which allows the user to bounce the balloon against his head, in "Use Your Head!"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Good Shot!" by Joe Edwards; after an explosion in the chemistry lab, Jughead thinks he's turned Archie into a bee in "To Bee Or Not To Bee!"; and every time Archie says "Did you call me" followed by the person's name, that person responds with the same moldy old joke in "The Joke"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $15.00

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Harold and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics and Joe Harold. The world's smallest monster, a tiny creature with a very loud voice, helps Archie get revenge on Reggie in "Big Mouth"! Plus: Shrimpy in the half-pagers "No Smoking" and "The End"; Archie, Reggie and Jughead go bobsledding in the 1-pager "Speed to Spare"; Reggie's state-of-the-art go-kart annoys Archie but impresses Veronica, who asks Reggie to let her drive it in "Go, Man, Go!"; the gang inspects a haunted house, and they all assume that the ghosts are just tricks the others rigged up to scare them in "It Ghost To Show You"; and an accident involving a nuclear testing lab leaves Archie with a radioactive charge that causes a basketball to be magnetically attracted to his hands in "Follow the Bouncing Ball"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $10.00

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and George Gladir. Art by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics and Joe Edwards. Archie points out to the gang how they can improve their games, but they end up injuring themselves following his advice in "The Fault Finder"! Plus: Li'l Jinx's dad orders her to the tub in the 1-pager "It's Tub To You!" by Joe Edwards; the boys want to see a haunted castle and are offered a one-way trip there by a ghoulish taxi driver in the 1-pager "Haunt Taunt"; Archie gets a magic charm from Jughead in "The Claw"; Archie and Mr. Lodge have to figure out how to get the Lodges' modern kitchen to work with its push-button-hidden, appliances-and-drawers electronic system in "Button-Button"; and when Archie sees Veronica with a date, he casually swears off girls forever in "Cliff-Hanger"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.80

12¢ cover price. Cover by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards and Marty Epp. Archie and Reggie refuse to carry Veronica's purse, but Jughead not only carries it, he uses it as a weapon in "Bag Boys"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "A Quick Change Artist!" by Joe Edwards; Fred meets a hep-cat and his translator in the 0.75-pager "Far Out"; Reggie tells Dilton which way they should face on the beach in the 0.25-pager "Silly Question"; Archie is writing in his mysterious little black book again in "The Black Book Returns"; Reggie makes a soap sculpture of Veronica in "Soft Soap Artist"; and Archie is reluctant to play ball with Jughead because he's afraid Veronica will go off with Reggie in "Double Play"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $23.00 Water damage.

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and George Gladir. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. Betty and Veronica see Archie carrying a doll as a prop for the school play in "The Doll"! Plus: Li'l Jinx gets an award in the 1-pager "The Award" by Joe Edwards; Archie, the first teenager to go to Mars, makes a triumphant return to Earth, where everyone has questions about his voyage in the 1-pager "Space Spat"; meet Cricket O'Dell, a girl who is obsessed with money, in "Passing the Buck"; and Archie tells Veronica a series of wild, implausible stories about why he's late and where he went last night in "The Story Teller"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $19.00

Add to cart GD 2.0 $18.00

Cover by Harry Lucey. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. While trying to make a floor plan of the school, the boys wreak havoc with a tape measure in "Measure For Measure"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Lend an Air" by Joe Edwards; Archie has a wonderful dream in the 1-pager "King For a Night"; Mr. Lodge goes on a tour of Europe to get away from Archie in "Bon Voyage"; and when Mr. Lodge goes outside wearing Archie's hat and coat, everyone mistakes him for Archie, and he discovers just how bad Archie's life really is in "Cover Up"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $2.50

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. Veronica breaks a date with Archie when her father has a business partner whose nephew needs a date for the same dance in "Business Before Pleasure"! Plus: Li'l Jinx gets a black eye in the 1-pager "Open and Shut Case" by Joe Edwards; Archie, Moose and Dilton in the 1-pager "Double Takes"; Reggie goes all out to break up Archie and Veronica, including false stories, false telegrams and disguising himself without luck in "Never A Doubt"; as the faculty think of a way to separate Archie and Veronica, Veronica comes storming into Mr. Weatherbee's office in "Love In Bloom"; and the news of Archie moving out of Riverdale shocks the gang in "It's Your Move"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart Good $4.80

Add to cart GD 2.0 $4.80

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and unknown. Archie dreams he and his friends are living as cavemen in prehistoric times in "Cave Man Casanova" (first appearance of the gang as cavemen)! Plus: Jughead engineers a series of "accidents" so that Archie can "save" Reggie and gain his appreciation in "The Life Saver"; Reggie is changed into a donkey after he offends a visitor who has learned black magic during his eight-year stay in Africa in "Which Is Witch?"; Archie's attempts to spread good cheer backfire in "Happy Days"; and "Color Blind" is the 1-page spoof on "Adult Coloring Books" with several "color me" gags! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.80

Cover pencils by Harry Lucey. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Bill Vigoda, Joe Edwards, Terry Szenics and Marty Epp. Mr. Lodge has a miserable day at a public beach, and finally decides to buy the whole beach just for the pleasure of keeping people off it in "Sand Crab"! Plus: Archie says his dog is learning foreign languages in school in the 1-pager "Animal Antics"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Walkee Talkee..." by Joe Edwards; when Mr. Lodge is getting a bad reputation in South America, Archie tries to get him some positive press, but winds up getting his picture published on a reward poster for wanted criminal "Killer" Kane, which leads to Mr. Lodge's arrest and Killer Kane's escape to Brazil in "Press Agent"; and Archie tries to get bulbs for Pop Tate's new fluorescent light fixture, but keeps breaking them on the way to the shop in "Bulb Snatcher"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $5.70

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.80

Cover by Harry Lucey. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics, Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick and Joe Edwards. Resenting the teachers' belief that accidents naturally happen when he's around, Archie tries to prove that trouble can happen when he's not around in "Trouble Spot"! Plus: two-panel gags with Archie, Betty and Veronica in the 1-pager "Double Takes!"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "No Match!" by Joe Edwards; everything Archie does brings a little more hilarity into Mr. Lodge's life in "Gloom Chaser"; Archie bends down to read a message on the sidewalk, only to discover that it's part of another Reggie prank in "Get the Message!"; and Archie isn't too worried when Reggie takes Veronica out driving in "Hate Affair"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $5.70

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Terry Szenics and unknown. Archie and the gang come up with a D-U-H cheer, much to Mr. Weatherbee's disapproval, in "The Cheer Leader"! Plus: Li'l Jinx tries to become a bubble-gum champ in the 1-pager "Bubble Trouble!" by Joe Edwards; "Archie Winter Pin-up"; Mr. Lodge and Archie have a ski race in "Snow Job"; Archie and Reggie disguise a tackling dummy with a mask and coat and cause havoc at school in "Dummy Up"; and Archie's friends wonder why he's standing on the street corner during a snowstorm in "Snow Go"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart Fair $2.50

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Terry Szenics and unknown. Veronica's pearl necklace breaks in the school hall, and one by one, the teachers slip on the lost pearls and are taken out of commission in "Pearl Divers"! Plus: Mr. Weatherbee tells Moose to think of him as a father in the half-pager "Unexpected Sit-Uation"; Jughead stops Souphead from playing the drum in the half-pager "Beat Nix"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Now 'Ear This" by Joe Edwards; the gang goes to a ski resort, where Archie causes major damage at the lodge, and almost causes even more damage to himself on the slopes in "Ski Bums"; and Reggie has to carry Archie to the Chok'lit Shoppe after losing a bet in "Winner Take All"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $9.60

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $5.70

Add to cart GD 2.0 $4.80

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Marty Epp and unknown. Archie tries to teach Moose not to get so angry when other boys talk to Midge in "The GENTLEman"! Plus: Veronica wants her father to buy Archie for her as a birthday present -- and he agrees -- in "Boxed In"; Archie tries to help Betty when she falls and hurts herself, but she doesn't appreciate it in "Carry On"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Top Draw!" by Joe Edwards; and Archie gets in trouble making a ball out of rubber bands in "More Bounce to the Ounce"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $6.70

Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards, George Gladir and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Samm Schwartz, Joe Edwards, Marty Epp and unknown. Archie and Reggie have a race to see who can reach Veronica's house first while balancing a freshly-baked pizza on his head in "The Great Pizza Race"! Plus: Archie can't spell a girl's last name in the 0.6-pager "Tame Name"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Swell Shells" by Joe Edwards; Archie is on his way to Veronica's house with a basket of goodies in "Little Red Archiekins"; the boys admire the girls in their jungle-patterned bathing suits in the 1-pager "Cute Suit"; after Archie accuses him of being too easily distracted by food, Jughead tries to prove he's literally inseparable from his buddy in "The Buddy System"; and after a discussion of what does and does not constitute a "battering ram," Archie and Jughead go to Mr. Lodge's house to knock down an old fence in "Batter Late"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart Very Good $9.60

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $5.70

Cover pencils by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Mario Acquaviva and unknown. Mr. Lodge has Archie take a borrowed boat back to the mechanic and exchange it for Mr. Lodge's boat, which was being repaired. But Archie isn't sure about the boats' controls and ends up causing more damage in "Cruise Director"! Plus: Archie gets Joe to give him some gas quick as Archie is late to a ball game in the 1-pager "A Gasser"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "That's What Counts" by Joe Edwards; Archie accidentally drops a beaker of acid that eats through the chemistry floor in "The Acid Test"; when Archie leaves Betty and Jughead to spend time with Veronica, the two jilted friends curse the two lovers in "Spellbound"; and Archie picks some of Mr. Lodge's prize roses as a gift to Veronica in "Everything's Coming Up Roses"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.