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Issue Details

Issue #350
Published May 1980
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Dilton Doily, Reggie Mantle, and Veronica Lodge appear in vignette at top of page. Issue copyright by Close-Up, Inc.

Cover Details - "Watch Your Money Grow"

Characters Moose Mason; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Moose is perplexed by bank advertising.
Genre teen; humor
Notes Dilton Doily, Reggie Mantle, and Veronica Lodge appear in vignette at top of page. Issue copyright by Close-Up, Inc.

1 page Josie; Hostess advertisement "Attack of The Ice Creatures"

Characters Josie McCoy; Alan M. Mayberry; Valerie Brown; Alexander Cabot III
Synopsis In a dream of Josie's, the gang is chased by living snowmen who stop when Alan drops the Hostess Fruit Pies he was carrying.
Genre teen; humor
Notes Ad for Hostess Fruit Pies. On inside front cover.

5 page Archie story "Early Bird"

Characters Archie Andrews; Mr. Svenson; Waldo Weatherbee; Jon
Synopsis Archie has a series of alarms that get him up an hour early for school, but he still ends up two hours late because he helps Mr. Svenson and takes a nap afterwards.
Genre teen; humor

1 page Archie story "Borrow Sorrow"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Archie tries to get back stuff that Jughead has borrowed from him...and Jughead borrows Archie's wagon to carry it.
Genre teen; humor

Half page Archie story "Knee Glee"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jugnead Jones
Synopsis Archie experiences sticker shock when he has his snowmobile repaired.
Genre teen; humor

Half page Archie's Gag Bag filler "untitled"

Characters Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis 1 - Archie lectures his parents after being elected captain of his debating team. 2 - Jughead's new job advertisement was misleading.
Genre teen; humor
Notes Two 4-panel gag strips.

1 page Mr. Weatherbee activity "Getting Around"

Characters Waldo Weatherbee
Notes A word finding puzzle.

5 page Archie story "Physical Fiasco"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; clerk at Oswald's Sporting Emporium; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis Archie begins an exhaustive excersize regimen after learning that Moose used to be a 90-pound weakling.
Genre teen; humor

5 page Li'l Jinx's Pals Gigi And Charley story "Mighty Mouth!"

Characters Charley Hawse; Gigi
Synopsis Gigi is worried about gaining weight and losing her job doing TV commercials, so she hires Charley to eat all the junk food she touches before she can eat it.
Genre humor; children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards
Notes Fashions sent in by J. Pinkerton of Ventura, CA.

1 page Archie letters page "Archie Club News"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
Script Barbara Green; Troy Dehn
Letters typeset
Notes News articles by readers and the prizes they won, along with a solicitation for the club.

1 page Betty And Veronica illustration "untitled"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Betty is put off because Archie holds his car door open for Veronica but not for her.
Genre teen; humor
Notes Veronica's fashions sent in by Ann Marie P. of Erie, PA.

5 page Mr. Weatherbee story "Hairpiece Hassles"

Characters Waldo Weatherbee; Ms. Grundy; Prof. Flutesnoot; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; unamed female students; Big Ethel Muggs; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
Synopsis Mr. Weatherbee buys a new hairpiece that the teachers laugh at, so Archie arranges to have the girls swoon over it to rebuild his confidence. Mr. Weatherbee decides that it is inappropriate for so many girls to be in love with the principal and ditches the hairpiece.
Genre teen; humor