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Issue Details

Issue #34
Published May 1981
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 132
Editing John L. Goldwater
Notes Indicia title is "Laugh Comics Digest Magazine." Copyright Close-Up, Inc.

Cover Details - "A Beautiful Chick!"

Characters Jughead Jones; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mangle; Archie Andrews; Li'l Jinx; Josie; Bingo; Little Archie; Moose Mason; Katy Keene; Randy Keene
Genre humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Notes Indicia title is "Laugh Comics Digest Magazine." Copyright Close-Up, Inc.

5 page Archie story "The Learning Process"

Characters Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis Archie is too frequently careless at home so his father decides that anyone who breaks the dishes next will have to wash all the windows. Of course Archie's father is next to break some dishes.
Genre humor
Reprinted from Archie (Archie, 1962 series) #233

1 page Archie's Gag Bag story "Money Pile"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis Archie makes a comparison of Mr. Lodge's wealth in a way jughead can understand.
Genre humor

8 page Archie story "Roof Goof or Goofy Roofer"

Characters Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Archie and Jughead help Archie's dad fix the roof.
Genre humor

1 page Veronica activity "Forget-Me-Not"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis a maze

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Walking The Dog!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father
Synopsis Jinx is sick so her father walks a neighbor's dog, discovering where Jinx goes when the dog leads him.
Genre humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

5 page Sabrina story "Who Blew The Brew?"

Characters Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Della
Synopsis Sabrina refuses to take up the deviltry of witchcraft as practiced by her family and the Head Witch, Della, attempts to discipline her. But Sabrina is protected by love.
Genre humor

1 page Mr. Flutesnoot Gag Bag story "Metric Gas"

Characters Mr. Flutesnoot; Dilton Doily; Reggie Mantle (cameo); Archie Andrews (cameo)
Synopsis Dilton uses Archie's gasoline buying habits as an example when converting metric units.
Genre humor

10 page Archie story "The Unwanted"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jodie; Jodie's father; Jodie's grandfather
Synopsis Jodie's family is found camping on the Lodge's property and during a scuffle to get them to move out, their van careens down a hill with Jodie inside. But Archie saves the day with a daring jump.
Genre humor; adventure
Notes In two Parts.
Reprinted from Life With Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #158

6 page Betty and Veronica story "Teased Hair"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Mr. Antoinne; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Synopsis The girls get new hairdos but the boys don't notice.
Genre humor

7 page That Wilkin Boy story "Daddy's Little Grown Up"

Characters Sampson Smythe; Samantha Smythe; Shiela Smythe; Bingo Wilkin
Synopsis Samantha is tired of her dad treating her like a little girl and accidentally scares her dad when he overhears her conversation with Bingo and misinterprets is as a marriage proposal.
Genre humor
Notes In one panel, Samantha's shirt loses its color.
Reprinted from That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #25

1 page Sampson Smythe story "In Step"

Characters Sampson Smythe; Samantha Smythe; Bingo Wilkin (cameo); Mr. Wilkin
Synopsis Sampson tries to show how connected he is with his daughter by dancing, but he dances a waltz to a boogaloo song.
Genre humor
Reprinted from That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #25

5 page Archie story "Parting Gesture"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; student; professor
Synopsis Miss Grundy gets a new job at a private school, but Archie finds a way to show her she won't fit in, before she makes the final decision.
Genre humor

1 page Mr. Weatherbee Gag Bag story "Procrastinating"

Characters Waldo Weatherbee; Svenson
Synopsis Svenson has let maintenance backlog too long.
Genre humor

5 page Archie story "That Settles It"

Characters Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Synopsis In trying to help Betty and Veronica settle an argument, Archie and Reggie come to blows.
Genre humor

1 page Li'l Jinx story "It's A Draw!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father
Synopsis Variation on the old "draw a horse and the horse will draw the wagon" gag.
Genre humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

6 page Sabrina's Aunt Hilda story "The Challenge"

Characters Aunt Hilda; Pushy Products salesman; Sabrina
Synopsis Hilda resorts to witchcraft and even physically throws out a salesman who won't take no for an answer...and Sabrina walks in and buys from him.
Genre humor
Notes In one panel, Hilda's hat loses its color.

1 page activity "Don't Let It Puzzle You!"

Synopsis puzzle page

1 page Archie's Pop Gag Bag story "Belle Vista"

Characters Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews (cameo); farmer
Synopsis Fred walks into a farm field thinking a sign offers it for sale, only to find it is the farmer's bull that's for sale.
Genre humor

5 page Archie story "Freddie The Finder"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Freddy; Dilton Doily
Synopsis Freddy wants attention, so he grabs things when no one is looking and then claims to "find" them, to accolades from everyone.
Genre humor
Notes In final panel, Freddy's shirt is missing some black lines.

2 page Archie text story "Plots To You"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Veronica is a acting strangely, not speaking to Archie, and he discovers it's a plot of Betty's to keep Veronica from going to the dance this weekend.
Genre humor
Letters typeset
Notes Includes 2 illustrations.

1 page Li'l Jinx story "To Her Credit!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's father
Synopsis Jinx refuses to throw out a broken doll and claims to sell it to Gigi to prove its value.
Genre humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

8 page Josie story "To Grandmother's House"

Characters Josie McCoy; Valerie Brown; Melody Valentine; Alexandra Cabot; Alan M. Mayberry (cameo); club owner
Synopsis Valerie goes away to take care of a sick grandmother but the girls don't believe her and blame her leaving on a club owner, so they play poorly on purpose.
Genre humor

6 page Big Ethel story "Something To Crow About"

Characters Big Ethel Muggs; Betty Cooper; Ralph; Flabbus Lippum; Hi Jacks
Synopsis Ethel's new parrot, Ralph, flies away each night and one night lays an egg in an abandoned house used by crooks. Ralph makes such a ruckus repeating crime show scenes that the crooks fall into the basement of the house and are trapped.
Genre humor

6 page Archie story "Auto-Magic"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
Synopsis Archie shines up his old jalopy but it's still just as noisy as ever so Veronica refuses to ride in it. But Betty both sees the beauty and welcomes any excuse to be with Archie.
Genre humor

5 page Katy Keene story "Randy's Rocket"

Characters Katy Keene; Sis; Billy; Randy Van Ronson
Synopsis Sis buys Billy a space helmet for his birthday and uses a fishbowl for a helmet for herself, becoming stuck and unable to enjoy the birthday goodies.
Genre humor

Half page Statement of Ownership credits

Script Louis H. Silberkleit (business manager)
Letters typeset
Notes For October 1, 1980. Editor: John L. Goldwater, Managing Editor: Richard H. Goldwater, Publisher: Close-Up Inc., Sales through dealers (average copies each issue): 132,167, Subscriptions (average copies each issue): 17.

6 page Veronica story "3 On A Date"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Veronica accidentally invites both guys on a date, where Reggie shows off so much that she finally sneaks away with just Archie.
Genre humor

4 page Pat The Brat story "Stuck With Luck"

Characters Pat; Susie; Blinky; Pat's mother
Synopsis Pat believes in superstitions such as walking under a ladder being bad luck, but gets the worst end of things trying to avoid them.
Genre humor

Half page activity "Easy Does It!"

Synopsis Plans top build a ball toss target, and a vocabulary quiz.

2 page Archie story "Delay Action"

Characters Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Reggie delays Archie from an appointment with Veronica, only to find they were planning his surprise birthday party.
Genre humor

1 page Rebel story "Fed Up!"

Characters Rebel; Willie Wilkin; Mrs. Wilkin
Synopsis Rebel believes the statistics on accidents in the kitchen refer to the meals-gone-bad that he has to eat.
Genre humor
Reprinted from That Wilkin Boy (Archie, 1969 series) #25

6 page Little Archie story "Homework Happy"

Characters Little Archie; Jughead; Betty; Reggie; Veronica; Miss Grundy
Synopsis Archie fails a test and Miss Grundy recommends he study with Betty and Veronica, who both aced it. But Betty spends the time playing house and Veronica becomes angry, so the only subject he does well in is war.
Genre humor

5 page Archie story "On The Prowl"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Herbie; woman; police officers; Pop Tate
Synopsis Archie and Jughead dress up in some old Scottish costumes, accidentally scare a neighbor, and pay off Herbie with ice cream so he won't tell the police who scared the neighbor.
Genre humor
Reprinted from Archie (Archie, 1962 series) #234

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Go Go Go..."

Characters Li'l Jinx; Li'l Jinx's friend
Synopsis Li'l Jinx has trouble spelling Mississippi.
Genre humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Jughead's Gag Bag story "Airports"

Characters Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Jughead opines about why airports are far out of towns.
Genre humor

1 page Jughead Jones Comics Digest #17 promo (ad from the publisher) "Get Your Act Together..."

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Order form for comic book.

1 page Archie Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Fantastic! Good Things Come In Little Packages!"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis House ad for Archie digest comics.
Notes Back cover.