Price: 0.12 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1963-04-01
Editing: ?

[no title indexed]

cover / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; science fiction

Indexer Notes

Schwartz background joke has one of the cowboys on the movie screen using a slingshot instead of a gun.

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: Archie Series
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: seven times a year in February, April, June, August, September, October, and December
  • Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
  • Printer: ?

The Magazine With Walking Commercials

table of contents / 1 page


Characters:
The Pink Martian; Lester Cool; Chester Square; Hilda the Witch
Synopsis:
Characters wearing sandwich-signs identifying their section.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[no title indexed]

The Teen-Age Section / cartoon / 1 page


  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Lester, do you have any suggestions for improving this section?
  • Keywords:suggestion box
Characters:
Lester Cool; Chester Square
Synopsis:
Chester drops suggestions in a box that are directed into a wastebasket.

Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch / comic story / 6 pages


Characters:
Sabrina the Teenage Witch; Tom; Hortense; Mary Jane
Synopsis:
Sabrina sets her sights on finding a handsome boy at a dance, but all her magic misfires.
Reprints (1)

Les 'n' Ches / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Lester Cool; Chester Square
Synopsis:
Chester can't get a date, so he fills out a computer form to find his perfect match.

[no title indexed]

It Just Seems That Way! / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Lester Cool (host); Chester Square (host)
Synopsis:
How the imagination makes things seem worse than they are: the night before exams; the cost of a date; the way your boyfriend looks at another girl; and playing hooky at the movies

Indexer Notes

Four one-panel cartoons

[no title indexed]

Space Section / comic story / 1 page


Characters:
The Pink Martian
Synopsis:
When the Pink Martian points out to an Earth girl that it snows every day on Mars, she retorts that that's the reason why Martians give Earth gals snow jobs.

The Ray Caper or "The Truth Can Be Uncouth"

Captain Sprocket / comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:humor; superhero
Characters:
Captain Sprocket; Thelma
Synopsis:
Captain Sprocket is called upon when Plutonians land on Earth with their truth rays, which are causing all sorts of problems.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Sprocket's girlfriend in this story is Thelma. In later stories it's Doris.

Planet Hopping

The Pink Martian / comic story / 2.8 pages


  • Genre:humor; science fiction
Characters:
The Pink Martian
Synopsis:
The Pink Martian lands on a planet that fears Earth because they think its inhabitants are giants.
Reprints (1)

Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1962

statement of ownership / 0.2 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1962. Average paid circulation for the previous 12 months was 247,461.

[no title indexed]

Monster Section / cartoon / 1 page


  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I've found a new speedy way to mix my witches brew!
  • Keywords:cement mixer; witches brew
Characters:
Hilda the Witch
Synopsis:
Hilda uses a cement mixer to mix her witches' brew.

Pain-in-the-Brain Machine

Professor Transistor / comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:humor; science fiction
Characters:
Hilda the Witch (host); Professor Transistor; Joe; Janet
Synopsis:
Joe and Janet, despite their previous misadventures with Professor Transistor's inventions, go to his laboratory to make Joe smart enough to pass his algebra exam. The Professor's brain machine raises his IQ from 90 to 9,000 and also increases the size of his head. Unfortunately the high intelligence turns out to be trouble and Joe returns to get the Professor to reverse the effect.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

In the opening panels, Joe and Janet discuss their troubles with a vitamin ray that made them four inches tall and a beauty lamp that made them invisible. However, the vitamin ray story from Archie's Mad House #21 featured Professor Sy Klops, not Professor Transistor.

Boris Karlaff's Photo Album

comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:humor; satire-parody
Characters:
Boris Karlaff; Bela Fangosi; King Kong; Invisible Man; Cat Girl
Synopsis:
A photo album of monster actor Boris Karlaff and his actor friends.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Boris Karlaff is a parody of Boris Karloff, who is caricatured in the first panel.

Riding a Wave of Popularity!

Betty and Veronica Summer Fun / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Mad House Hall of Fame / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:satire-parody
Characters:
Babs Chatterbox; Courtney Puffhardt; Taboo Hunter

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Parody of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Order This! Get This Free!

Archie Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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