Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1943-05-08
Editing: Harry Shorten (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #3 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Archie / cover / 1 page

Script:
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Pencils:
Harry Sahle (signed)
Inks:
Harry Sahle (signed)
Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Sorry...you'll have to get out of this jam yourself, Archie!
Characters:
Reprints (3)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Some credits from reprints in Archie Archives (Dark Horse, 2011 series) #2

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page

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typeset
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Synopsis:
A typeset table of contents. Also features a small article saying that each of the first two issues were bought out.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Weirdly, this did not appear in Dark Horse's Archie Archives, but did in the reprint on the Archie digital app.

Archie the Magician
(Table of Contents: 2)

Archie / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
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Colors:
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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Now, my greatest feat of magic, ladies and gentlemen!
Characters:
Zogi The Yogi (introduction); Oscar
Synopsis:
Archie and Oscar cause Zogi The Yogi a lot of trouble when Archie volunteers to be Zogi's assistant and Oscar is outside the theater.
Reprints (3)

Jughead at the Dentist
(Table of Contents: 3)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I wonder how Hector is?
Characters:
Hector the Mouse; Dr. Molar (introduction, a dentist)
Synopsis:
Archie has Jughead go to the dentist and pretend that he is Archie. Jughead ends up getting a tooth pulled.
Reprints (2)

The Buggyman of Bugville
(Table of Contents: 4)

Bumbie / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Joe Edwards (credited)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Are you afraid of the evil eye?
Characters:
Bumbie the Bee-tective; The Buggyman (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

title from contents page

The Perfect Incinerator
(Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

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

Archie Fun Page / activity / 1 page

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Letters:
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Characters:
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Maze, drawing activity, add letters to captions to make words, make words out of six different letters.

Archie at the Bat
(Table of Contents: 7)

Archie / comic story / 11 pages

Script:
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Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Archie...puleeeze..anything but a strike out!
Characters:
Aloyisius Q. Spitball (introduction)
Synopsis:
Mr. Spitball just might donate a nice sum of money to Riverdale High School. Unfortunately, Archie's playing on the baseball team when Mr. Spitball goes to a game.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Parody of Thayer's "Casey At The Bat".

Dead Storage Blues
(Table of Contents: 8)

Archie / comic story / 4 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Yes, dear, I've decided to put my car in storage for the duration!
Characters:
Synopsis:
Mr. Andrews decides to put his car in dead storage.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Title from contents.

Page title is An Archie Short.

Archie's dad is called Sam in this story.

Archie Fun Page
(Table of Contents: 9)

activity / 1 page

Script:
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Letters:
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Characters:
Sqoimy; Bumbie; Cubby

The Cow That Gave Chocolate Milk
(Table of Contents: 10)

Cubby / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:
The Mad Hypnotist (villain)

Welcome Soldiers
(Table of Contents: 11)

Veronica and Betty / comic story / 6 pages

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?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:According to facts and figures there are supposed to be two females for every male in the United States!
Characters:
Matilda (introduction); Danny Woodwin (introduction)
Synopsis:
Betty and Veronica hold a dance and invite soldiers. It turns out that the soldiers are women.
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

1st Veronica and Betty story

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Sorry...you'll have to get out of this jam yourself, Archie!"]
    Archie
  2. [no title indexed]
  3. Archie the Magician
    Archie
  4. Jughead at the Dentist
    Archie
  5. The Buggyman of Bugville
    Bumbie
  6. The Perfect Incinerator
  7. [no title indexed]
    Archie Fun Page
  8. Archie at the Bat
    Archie
  9. Dead Storage Blues
    Archie
  10. Archie Fun Page
  11. The Cow That Gave Chocolate Milk
    Cubby
  12. Welcome Soldiers
    Veronica and Betty
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