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Issue Details

Issue #394
Published May 1984
Cover Price 0.60
Pages 36(?)
Editing Victor Gorelick

Cover Details - "Tomorrow there's a ninety-eight percent chance of rain!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hot Dog
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Inks Jim DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page The Archies story "Vidiocy"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Dilton Doily
Synopsis The Archies try to make a music video for NTV.
Genre teen; humor
Script George Gladir
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Jughead story "Rain Refrain"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate
Synopsis Jughead makes good on a promise from Archie.
Genre teen; humor
Script George Gladir
Pencils Chic Stone
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

Half page Archie's Puzzle Page activity "Great Literature Match-Up!"

Characters Archie Andrews
Synopsis A puzzle involving literary characters and authors.
Script Rod Ollerenshaw
Pencils Rod Ollerenshaw
Inks Rod Ollerenshaw
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Rod Ollerenshaw

6 page Marvelous Maureen story Episode 16: Wards a Whammy, or "When Diplomacy Fails, Fire Works"

Characters Marvelous Maureen; Wonder Blunder; Clarissa; Cecily; Repticus
Synopsis The inept space witch Cecily threatens to put a curse on Maureen.
Genre science fiction; humor; adventure
Script Lori Walls
Pencils Lori Walls (signed)
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Colors Lori Walls (signed)
Letters Bill Yoshida

5 page Hot Dog story "Lover's Lament"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Hot Dog; Delilah
Synopsis Hot Dog falls in love with a cute French Poodle from a dog food commercial.
Genre teen; humor
Script George Gladir
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

5 page Wanda Wunderbuss story "The Noose Behind the Nightly News, or It Was a Real Hang Up"

Characters Wanda Wunderbuss; Gary Grimlove; P.R. Picker
Synopsis The story of Wanda Wunderbuss, an anchorwoman for the NIT Nightly News. Secretly engaged to the handsome but dumb co-anchor, Gary Grimlove, Wanda begins to wonder why she's constantly sent out on dangerous assignments in foreign countries while Gary is given all the cushy jobs. When she's finally had enough of the unequal treatment, she hits Gary, who self-destructs: he was a robot created by NIT to be the perfect pretty, bland anchorman. Wanda takes the loss of her fiancé in stride, and threatens to reveal NIT's secret unless she is allowed to pick her own assignments and her own co-anchor.
Genre humor
Script Bob Bolling
Pencils Bob Bolling (signed)
Inks Bob Bolling (signed)
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bob Bolling
Notes This strange satirical story was a pilot for a series that never happened; the title page proclaims "introducing Wanda Wunderbuss!" but she never appeared again. At one point Wanda refers to herself as "Wunderbust." Most appearances of the name "Wunderbuss" have the last "s" looking slightly different from the other letters. It appears that "Wunderbust" was changed for being too suggestive, but one mention of the original name slipped through.