Price: 0.25 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1962-10-25
Editing: Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Archie Giant Series Magazine (Archie, 1954 series) #20 Edit Cover
Cover Gallery 
Cover Thumbnail for Archie Giant Series Magazine (1954 series) #20 [Canadian]

Archie's Christmas Stocking
(Table of Contents)

Archie / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Here are the keys, son! It's all yours! ...Complete with sugar plums!
  • Keywords:Christmas; Santa Claus
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Santa Claus
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

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

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Boxed In
(Table of Contents: 1)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This is a Christmas list?
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis:
Archie decides to wrap himself in a big box for Veronica's Christmas present.
Reprints (3)

R Is for Rooked
(Table of Contents: 2)

Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:G-Greater love hath n-no man!
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Gaston; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis:
Archie sends Jughead over to Veronica's house to find out what she's getting him for Christmas.
Reprints (2)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Veronica Pin Up Page / comic story / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Oh, I forgot to tell you...Archie just stepped out for a coke!
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Reprints (3)

Escape
(Table of Contents: 4)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I like a white Christmas as much as the next guy, but this is ridiculous!
  • Keywords:Christmas
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis:
This Christmas, Mr. Lodge is going away on a vacation so Archie won't ruin the holiday for him. Unfortunately, Veronica has forgotten to reserve her father's plane ticket, and when Archie tries to make the reservation, he winds up getting Mr. Lodge shipped to Alaska.
Reprints (2)

Hot and Cold!
(Table of Contents: 5)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Brrrr... winter is no fun!
Characters:
Li'l Jinx Holliday; Greg
Reprints (1)

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

Archie Club News / letters page / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 7)

Veronica's Christmas Card / illustration / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Merry Xmas One and All
Characters:
Veronica Lodge

Season's Greetings to You All
(Table of Contents: 8)

Betty's Christmas Card / illustration / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Betty Cooper
Synopsis:
Betty poses in a sexy Christmas outfit while painting a card of Christmas cheer.

Monster Monopoly
(Table of Contents: 9)

Archie / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Man, I really dig monster movies!
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
Synopsis:
Archie and Jughead make a monster snowman.
Reprints (1)

The Hard Way
(Table of Contents: 10)

Shrimpy / comic story / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hey! Watch my next stunt!

Picture Frame
(Table of Contents: 11)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • Feature Logo:Archie
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I never want to see you again! I never want to speak to you again! I never want to hear of you again!
Characters:
Synopsis:
Archie gets Betty and Veronica to frame pictures of himself but delivers one to Veronica's house that has Betty's name on it.
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

Credits from reprint in The Best of Archie Christmas Comics (Archie, 2020 series).

Go for Broke
(Table of Contents: 12)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Yuletide greetings, bubblebrain!
  • Keywords:prank
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis:
Reggie plays a prank on Archie that makes him drop and break a bottle of perfume that Archie was going to give to Veronica.
Reprints (4)

Indexer Notes

Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #294.

The Return of Jingles
(Table of Contents: 13)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's that time of year again, ol buddy!
  • Keywords:Christmas
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Jingles; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Santa Claus; Jangles; Jeeves
Synopsis:
Archie and his friends get another Christmas visit from Jingles, Santa's delinquent brownie. This time around, two of Jingles' fellow brownies, Jangles and Jeeves, make an unauthorized visit, and the three magical creatures get into a pier six brawl over who gets Riverdale as his territory.
Reprints (5)

The Willing Spirit
(Table of Contents: 14)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Archie Andrews, you are out of your head!!
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
Synopsis:
Archie tells Reggie he's giving Veronica to him for Christmas.
Reprints (1)

Black Book Bonanza
(Table of Contents: 15)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:B-but, Moose! I'm not doing any work!
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis:
Moose thinks Archie is Santa's helper and is writing down who is naughty or nice in his little black book.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

Credits from the reprint in Archie and Me Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #12.

Christmas Fashions for Betty and Veronica
(Table of Contents: 16)

Betty and Veronica / illustration / 2 pages

Script:
Linda Verrone
Josie Dumont
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; fashion; teen
Characters:
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Editing
Download: (JSON)
Report Information
my.comics.org
Tracked in 0 collections.
Issue at my.comics.org
View Change History
Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Archie's Christmas Stocking
    Archie
  2. Boxed In
    Archie
  3. R Is for Rooked
    Betty and Veronica
  4. ["Oh, I forgot to tell you...Archie just stepped out for a coke!"]
    Veronica Pin Up Page
  5. Escape
    Archie
  6. Hot and Cold!
    Li'l Jinx
  7. [no title indexed]
    Archie Club News
  8. ["Merry Xmas One and All"]
    Veronica's Christmas Card
  9. Season's Greetings to You All
    Betty's Christmas Card
  10. Monster Monopoly
    Archie
  11. The Hard Way
    Shrimpy
  12. Picture Frame
    Archie
  13. Go for Broke
    Archie
  14. The Return of Jingles
    Archie
  15. The Willing Spirit
    Archie
  16. Black Book Bonanza
    Archie
  17. Christmas Fashions for Betty and Veronica
    Betty and Veronica
Related Links
Issue was modified by, among others
  • John
  • Dwayne Best
  • Steve Coates
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Joey Sayer
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jaime Weinman
contact us
donate
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.