Archie (1943 Archie Comics) comic books 1961-1963

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $27.00

Cover by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Bill Vigoda, Terry Szenics and Marty Epp. Archie brings a bowling ball to school, and it keeps getting away from him and causing destruction in "Bowl Game"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Keeping In Touch!" by Joe Edwards; Mr. Weatherbee wonders why the students are afraid of him in the 1-pager "Principal's Principle"; a stiff neck leaves Archie unable to hold his head up straight in "A New Twist"; Moose will be disqualified from the big game unless he passes a test, so Archie disguises himself as Moose to take the test in his place in "Painful Proxy"; and a pesky fly gets Archie in trouble in Miss Grundy's class, but then gets him out of trouble with Mr. Weatherbee in "The Fly"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $8.80

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $5.60

12¢ cover price. Cover by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards and Marty Epp. Archie and Reggie refuse to carry Veronica's purse, but Jughead not only carries it, he uses it as a weapon in "Bag Boys"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "A Quick Change Artist!" by Joe Edwards; Fred meets a hep-cat and his translator in the 0.75-pager "Far Out"; Reggie tells Dilton which way they should face on the beach in the 0.25-pager "Silly Question"; Archie is writing in his mysterious little black book again in "The Black Book Returns"; Reggie makes a soap sculpture of Veronica in "Soft Soap Artist"; and Archie is reluctant to play ball with Jughead because he's afraid Veronica will go off with Reggie in "Double Play"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $19.00

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $21.00

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and George Gladir. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. Betty and Veronica see Archie carrying a doll as a prop for the school play in "The Doll"! Plus: Li'l Jinx gets an award in the 1-pager "The Award" by Joe Edwards; Archie, the first teenager to go to Mars, makes a triumphant return to Earth, where everyone has questions about his voyage in the 1-pager "Space Spat"; meet Cricket O'Dell, a girl who is obsessed with money, in "Passing the Buck"; and Archie tells Veronica a series of wild, implausible stories about why he's late and where he went last night in "The Story Teller"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $26.00

Cover by Harry Lucey. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. While trying to make a floor plan of the school, the boys wreak havoc with a tape measure in "Measure For Measure"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Lend an Air" by Joe Edwards; Archie has a wonderful dream in the 1-pager "King For a Night"; Mr. Lodge goes on a tour of Europe to get away from Archie in "Bon Voyage"; and when Mr. Lodge goes outside wearing Archie's hat and coat, everyone mistakes him for Archie, and he discovers just how bad Archie's life really is in "Cover Up"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $4.00

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.20

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. Veronica breaks a date with Archie when her father has a business partner whose nephew needs a date for the same dance in "Business Before Pleasure"! Plus: Li'l Jinx gets a black eye in the 1-pager "Open and Shut Case" by Joe Edwards; Archie, Moose and Dilton in the 1-pager "Double Takes"; Reggie goes all out to break up Archie and Veronica, including false stories, false telegrams and disguising himself without luck in "Never A Doubt"; as the faculty think of a way to separate Archie and Veronica, Veronica comes storming into Mr. Weatherbee's office in "Love In Bloom"; and the news of Archie moving out of Riverdale shocks the gang in "It's Your Move"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart Good $4.00

Add to cart GD 2.0 $4.00

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and unknown. Archie dreams he and his friends are living as cavemen in prehistoric times in "Cave Man Casanova" (first appearance of the gang as cavemen)! Plus: Jughead engineers a series of "accidents" so that Archie can "save" Reggie and gain his appreciation in "The Life Saver"; Reggie is changed into a donkey after he offends a visitor who has learned black magic during his eight-year stay in Africa in "Which Is Witch?"; Archie's attempts to spread good cheer backfire in "Happy Days"; and "Color Blind" is the 1-page spoof on "Adult Coloring Books" with several "color me" gags! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $6.40

Add to cart Good $4.00

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards, George Gladir and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Bill Vigoda, Bob White and unknown. In a story mostly told in narrative captions, Archie gets a chance to redeem himself in Mr. Lodge's eyes when he notices a fire in the Lodge mansion in "The House That Lodge Built"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Stop, Book and Listen!" by Joe Edwards; two-panel gags with Archie and the gang in the 1-pager "Double-Takes"; on their latest report cards, Archie and Veronica have better grades in Latin but worse in math in "Card Caper!"; Reggie can beat anyone at finger-wrestling except Moose in "Muscle Tussle"; Miss Grundy explains that mankind is a relative latecomer in the history of the world in the 1-pager "It's Later Than You Think"; Archie and Veronica play a charades game in "Oodles of Charoodles"; and when Archie wants to convince the girls to give him the lead part in the school play, he asks Jughead to be his agent in "The Hard Sell"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $6.40

Cover pencils by Harry Lucey. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Bill Vigoda, Joe Edwards, Terry Szenics and Marty Epp. Mr. Lodge has a miserable day at a public beach, and finally decides to buy the whole beach just for the pleasure of keeping people off it in "Sand Crab"! Plus: Archie says his dog is learning foreign languages in school in the 1-pager "Animal Antics"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Walkee Talkee..." by Joe Edwards; when Mr. Lodge is getting a bad reputation in South America, Archie tries to get him some positive press, but winds up getting his picture published on a reward poster for wanted criminal "Killer" Kane, which leads to Mr. Lodge's arrest and Killer Kane's escape to Brazil in "Press Agent"; and Archie tries to get bulbs for Pop Tate's new fluorescent light fixture, but keeps breaking them on the way to the shop in "Bulb Snatcher"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $8.80

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $8.80

Add to cart VG 4.0 $8.00

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Marty Epp, Terry Szenics and unknown. Archie breaks a date with Veronica when he has to tidy up the garden. So Veronica goes searching for Reggie. Betty then comes over to help Archie with the garden in "Job Well Done"! Plus: Li'l Jinx does some window shopping in the 1-pager "Street 'Seen'" by Joe Edwards; Archie gets distracted by other girls while he and Veronica are at the beach in the 1-pager "Backfire"; Archie is given a letter to mail from Veronica in "The Letter"; as usual, Big Moose takes what people say much too literally in "Help Wanted"; and Archie and Veronica play "The Most Dangerous Game" at the Lodges' house -- croquet! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $4.80

Cover by Harry Lucey. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics, Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick and Joe Edwards. Resenting the teachers' belief that accidents naturally happen when he's around, Archie tries to prove that trouble can happen when he's not around in "Trouble Spot"! Plus: two-panel gags with Archie, Betty and Veronica in the 1-pager "Double Takes!"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "No Match!" by Joe Edwards; everything Archie does brings a little more hilarity into Mr. Lodge's life in "Gloom Chaser"; Archie bends down to read a message on the sidewalk, only to discover that it's part of another Reggie prank in "Get the Message!"; and Archie isn't too worried when Reggie takes Veronica out driving in "Hate Affair"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.