• Genre:humor; superhero; teen

• Keywords:alien

Synopsis:

Superteen battles the Consumer, an alien monster who can eat anything and anyone. She has to back down when the Consumer threatens to devour Archie, but luckily Jughead's eating power is greater than any alien's.

Reprints (9)

• in Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #142 (October 1966)
• in Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (Archie, 1974 series) #15 (March 1978)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #14 (January 1985)
• in Archie's Super Teens (Archie, 1994 series) #2 (1995)
• in Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #9 (November 2011)
• in The Best of Archie Comics (Archie, 2011 series) #2 (2012)
• in Archie 1000 Page Comics Blow-Out (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
• in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #233 (June 2015)
• in Archie's Superteens (Archie, 2019 series) (May 2019)

The first Superteen story that isn't a dream sequence.

A note in the splash page establishes the rule that the source of Superteen's power is her ponytail.

• Genre:humor; teen

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:A warm soda on such a hot day?
• Keywords:beach; soda

Synopsis:

Betty asks why Jughead is drinking warm soda on a hot day at the beach.

Jughead is reading a Josie comic book.

• Genre:humor; teen

Synopsis:

Archie and Reggie impugn the masculinity of Veronica's ballet instructor Peter, until Peter shows that his ballet skills also translate into martial arts skills.

Reprints (2)

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #22 (September 1977)
• in Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (IDW, 2010 series) #3 (December 2011)

A partial remake of an earlier story, "Ballet Ruse," from Laugh #172 (July 1965). Both stories are partly based on a scene from the 1957 movie DESIGNING WOMAN, where a dancer/choreographer played by Jack Cole beats up a bunch of thugs who are threatening Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall.

• Genre:humor; teen

Synopsis:

Archie tries to teach Betty to drive.

Reprints (2)

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #25 (August 1977)
• in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #3 (October 1987)

• Genre:humor; children

• Keywords:manhole; pogo stick

Synopsis:

Jinx is hopping down the street on her pogo stick. She bounces into an open manhole, but bounces back up off the hardhat of a city worker.

• Genre:humor; teen

Synopsis:

A narrator explains the Archie gang's relationships in rhyming couplets.

Reprints (3)

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #25 (August 1977)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #30 (September 1987)
• in Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (IDW, 2010 series) #1 (May 2010)