• Genre:humor; superhero; teen

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's that superfink, the Ice Cube! That innocent looking oil truck is actually filled with his deadly gas, frednaise! I'm trapped!

• Hiram Lodge
• Veronica Lodge
• Pureheart the Powerful [Archie Andrews]

Synopsis:

Pureheart battles Ice Cube, who is after Lodge's millions!

Reprints (6)

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #31 (August 1978), #47 (April 1981)
• in Archie: Pureheart the Powerful (IDW, 2010 series) #1 (July 2010)
• in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #7 (September 2011)
• in Archie's Superteens (Archie, 2019 series) (May 2019)
• in Archie Milestones Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2019 series) #7 (March 2020)

This story is told in two parts (8 pp. & 5 pp.).
Credits from reprint in Archie: Pureheart the Powerful (IDW, 2010 series) #1.

• Genre:humor; teen

• Keywords:practical joke

Synopsis:

When Pop Tate injures himself doing a new dance, Archie volunteers to keep the shop running. Reggie then replaces all the vanilla ice cream with instant potatoes. The taste is so bad that all the customers desert the Choklit Shop.

Reprints (4)

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #30 (June 1978)
• in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #301 (September 2019)
• in Archie Giant Comics Hop (Archie, 2019 series) (2019)
• in Life with Archie (Archie, 2018 series) #2 (2020)

Story in two parts (5 pp. each).

Prize-winning letters from Linda Packer, Pamela Ross, Larry Edwards, Kittie Elaine Thornton; entry form for Archie Club.