Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1943-07-08
Editing: Harry Shorten (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #4 Edit Cover
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[Quiet!! On the Air!]
(Table of Contents)

Archie / cover / 1 page

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Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:humor; teen
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Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Inks credit verified in Alter Ego #110 (June 2012).

Plug for the Archie radio show on cover.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

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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Synopsis:
A typeset table of contents for the issue. Features a small poem about the troubles the editors went through to bring the reader laughs.
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.

What's Cooking In This Issue
(Table of Contents: 2)

Archie / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:teen
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Synopsis:
Archie is drawn as a comic book artist holding up the preview page.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Preview page.

Circus Serenade
(Table of Contents: 3)

Archie / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Bingle B. Bungling (introduction); Gumbo (an elephant, introduction)
Synopsis:
Archie wreaks havoc on Bingle B. Bungling's circus.
Reprints (3)

Spring Fever
(Table of Contents: 4)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Ed Goggin (signed as Goggin)
Pencils:
Harry Sahle (signed as Sahle)
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  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Mr. Curdle (introduction)
Synopsis:
Mr. Andrews forecasts the weather and Jughead and Archie end up in swimming trunks during a snowstorm.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

First appearance of Souphead, Jughead's younger cousin.

Swing It, Bee-thoven
(Table of Contents: 5)

Bumbie / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
Characters:
Bee-thoven (introduction); Seams Taylor (villain, introduction)

Oscar the Watch-Dog (?)
(Table of Contents: 6)

Archie / comic story / 3 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Oscar (Archie's dog)
Synopsis:
Mr. Andrews wants Archie to sell Oscar because he eats too much.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Later rewritten as the text stories Tiny, the Police Dog in Super Duck Comics #10 and Man's Best Friend in Pep Comics #64.

Jughead and Souphead
(Table of Contents: 7)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
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Synopsis:
Jughead plays Cops and Robbers with Souphead and his friends.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

more of a Jughead story

Archie the Fixer
(Table of Contents: 8)

Archie / text story / 2 pages

Script:
Bob Gorman (house name)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:teen
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Cubby Hangs a Picture
(Table of Contents: 9)

Cubby / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

contents page title

Glamour In White
(Table of Contents: 10)

Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Nurse Grady (introduction); Dr. Cueball (introduction)
Synopsis:
Betty and Veronica take jobs at the same hospital when Archie is there.
Reprints (4)

Indexer Notes

Rivalry heats up.

Birthday Blues
(Table of Contents: 11)

Archie / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
Characters:
Oscar (Archie's dog); Mulligan (introduction); Eustace (introduction)
Synopsis:
Mr. Andrews goes to the department store to find out why his folding chair won't open.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

More a Pop Andrews story.

The basic story was rewritten as the text stories Swingin' in a Hammock in Wilbur Comics #7 and Sleeping Beauty in Super Duck Comics #14.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [Quiet!! On the Air!]
    Archie
  2. [no title indexed]
  3. What's Cooking In This Issue
    Archie
  4. Circus Serenade
    Archie
  5. Spring Fever
    Archie
  6. Swing It, Bee-thoven
    Bumbie
  7. Oscar the Watch-Dog (?)
    Archie
  8. Jughead and Souphead
    Archie
  9. Archie the Fixer
    Archie
  10. Cubby Hangs a Picture
    Cubby
  11. Glamour In White
    Betty and Veronica
  12. Birthday Blues
    Archie
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