Price: 0.25 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1964-10-29
Editing: Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #31 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Archie / cover / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Me, Santa Claus? Gosh! Whatever gave you the idea that I'd make a good Santa?
  • Keywords:Christmas; Santa Claus
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Waldo Weatherbee

Indexer Notes

Later redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #88

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: Archie Giant Series
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: six times yearly: January, August, September and December, and semi-monthly in June
  • Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
  • Printer: ?

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Santa Mantle
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Archie / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • Feature Logo:Archie
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There he goes! This is it! He's on his way to buy Veronica's Christmas gift!
  • Keywords:Christmas
Characters:
Synopsis:
Reggie is determined to buy Veronica a more expensive version of everything Archie gets for her.
Reprints (7)

Indexer Notes

Color credits from The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series).

Christmas Fashions For Betty and Veronica
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Betty and Veronica / illustration / 2 pages

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  • Genre:fashion; teen; humor
Characters:
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis:
The girls model winter fashions.
Reprints (1)

Exchange Student
(Table of Contents: 3)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Coach Kleats
Synopsis:
Archie buys Veronica a bottle of perfume for Christmas, but accidentally gets it spilled all over him before he can give it to her. When Veronica smells him, she thinks he's been with some other girl.
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Gift Wrapped!
(Table of Contents: 4)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Li'l Jinx
Synopsis:
Li'l Jinx wraps gifts.
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Mr. Weatherbee's Dilemma
(Table of Contents: 5)

Archie / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Archie Andrews
Synopsis:
Archie's screw-ups almost ruin Christmas for Mr. Weatherbee and have him saying "Bah, humbug," until he gets a special gift from his students.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Betty and Veronica's Pin Up / cartoon / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You're spending all your money on my Christmas presents...
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Synopsis:
Betty gets revenge on Archie for only buying presents for Veronica.
Reprints (3)

Man's Best Friend
(Table of Contents: 7)

Jughead / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis:
Jughead tells Archie that he's planning to buy a transistor radio for himself, to make sure he'll get what he wants for Christmas. Archie decides to buy the same thing for himself, but everyone else winds up buying him the same thing.
Reprints (4)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Archie Club News / letters page / 2 pages

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Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

letters from: Peggy Domengeaux, Colette Kennett, June Miller;
page also includes membership application for the Archie Club

Just Be Claus
(Table of Contents: 9)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • Feature Logo:Archie
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Say, Moose! Big Moose! We want to talk to you!
  • Keywords:Christmas; Santa Claus
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Coach Kleats; Midge Klump
Synopsis:
Thanks to one too many hits in the head during football practice, Moose is suffering from intermittent memory loss. When Moose temporarily forgets who Midge is, Reggie tries to make time with her while Moose is busy playing Santa Claus .
Reprints (7)

Indexer Notes

Color credits from The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series).

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Betty Pin Up / cartoon / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Betty Cooper; Santa Claus
Synopsis:
Santa won't give Betty Archie for Christmas.
Reprints (7)

Well Suited
(Table of Contents: 11)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis:
Archie asks Mr. Lodge to play Santa Claus.
Reprints (2)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Christmas Pin-Up / cartoon / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Ethel Muggs; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis:
Ethel has her own theories about why Veronica is raising more money for the charity drive than she is.
Reprints (4)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Veronica Pin Up Page / cartoon / 1 page

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Archie, stop!
  • Keywords:Christmas
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis:
Archie's overdoing the mistletoe bit.
Reprints (1)

Spell of Spells
(Table of Contents: 14)

Archie / comic story / 11 pages

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Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Jingles
Synopsis:
After being humiliated by Jingles, Reggie takes up black magic and starts casting spells on the pudgy brownie. Archie has to work a little magic of his own to stop Reggie from destroying Jingles.
Reprints (3)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Me, Santa Claus? Gosh! Whatever gave you the idea that I'd make a good Santa?"]
    Archie
  2. Santa Mantle
    Archie
  3. Christmas Fashions For Betty and Veronica
    Betty and Veronica
  4. Exchange Student
    Archie
  5. Gift Wrapped!
    Li'l Jinx
  6. Mr. Weatherbee's Dilemma
    Archie
  7. ["You're spending all your money on my Christmas presents..."]
    Betty and Veronica's Pin Up
  8. Man's Best Friend
    Jughead
  9. [no title indexed]
    Archie Club News
  10. Just Be Claus
    Archie
  11. ["Betty, please!"]
    Betty Pin Up
  12. Well Suited
    Archie
  13. ["Gosh, Big Ethel!"]
    Christmas Pin-Up
  14. ["Archie, stop!"]
    Veronica Pin Up Page
  15. Spell of Spells
    Archie
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