Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1943-07-08
Editing: Harry Shorten (editor)

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 page


Characters:
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

Archie / comic story / 1 page


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

Indexer Notes

Preview page.

Spring Fever

Archie / comic story / 6 pages


  • 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

Bumbie / comic story / 6 pages


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

Oscar the Watch-Dog (?)

Archie / comic story / 3 pages


  • 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

Archie / comic story / 6 pages


Indexer Notes

more of a Jughead story

Archie the Fixer

Archie / text story / 2 pages

Script:
Bob Gorman (house name)
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:teen
Characters:

Cubby Hangs a Picture

Cubby / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

contents page title

Birthday Blues

Archie / comic story / 7 pages


  • 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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