Archie (1943 Archie Comics) comic books 1972-1974

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $3.49

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20

Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick cover. Frank Doyle scripts unless noted, Harry Lucey pencils, Marty Epp inks, Bill Yoshida letters. "Changing Times": Pop's establishment goes anti-establishment (Dick Malmgren script, 7 pages). "The Measure of a Man": A late-night breakdown offers a lesson in success (10 pages). "The Unchanging World": Archie waits for dates (5 pages). 36 pages. Full-color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $2.50

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $2.50

Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick cover. Frank Doyle scripts, Harry Lucey pencils, Marty Epp inks, Bill Yoshida letters. Li'l Jinx by Joe Edwards. "The Long Week": Saturday offers plenty of time for indecision (6 pages). "Passing the Buck": Jughead pays for an unexpected date (8 pages). Li'l Jinx in "Round Up Time" Jinx suffers from a confusing illness (1 page). "Flake Off": Mr. Weatherbee will freeze before he concedes (8 pages). 36 pages. Full-color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.49 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $2.50 2" Cumulative spine split. Water damage. Staple rust with migration.

Last 15 cent issue. Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick cover. Frank Doyle scripts, Harry Lucey pencils, Chic Stone inks, and Bill Yoshida letters unless noted. Li'l Jinx by Joe Edwards. "The Gay Blades" Svensen gives Mr. Weatherbee the brush-off (6 pages). Li'l Jinx in "Getting a Head!": Jinx's concern is being overblown (1 page). "Late Fate": Archie has a backwards idea (George Gladir script, penciller unknown, Jon D'Agostino inks, 1 page). "It's a Gift": Archie delivers a surprising package (6 pages). "Freezer Plan": Jughead creates some hot new flavors (5 pages). Statement of Ownership filed October 1, 1971: average print run 884,292; average paid circulation 482,101. 36 pages. Full-color. 15 cent cover price. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.49

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.50 Centerfold detached at one staple. Water spotting.

First 20 cent issue. Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick cover. Frank Doyle scripts, Harry Lucey pencils, Marty Epp inks unless noted, Bill Yoshida letters. Li'l Jinx by Joe Edwards. Includes Dan DeCarlo pin-up. "Turning Over a New Leaf?": Mr. Weatherbee gets a sign of reassurance (11 pages). Li'l Jinx in "Stinging Words!": Jinx tries to break Charley (1 page). "Show and Tell": Archie arranges a private parade (6 pages). "The Dating Game": A big mouth earns a big headache (Chic Stone inks, 5 pages). 36 pages. Full-color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $3.49

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick cover. Frank Doyle scripts, Harry Lucey pencils, and Chic Stone inks unless noted, Bill Yoshida letters. Li'l Jinx by Joe Edwards. "Sign Bored": Archie doesn't recognize the obvious signs (6 pages). "Daddy's Boy": Mr. Lodge gets caught saying all the right things (Writer unknown, 8 pages). Li'l Jinx in "Way Out!": Jinx offers Charley an exclusive position (1 page). "Neighbor Labor": Archie takes the scenic route to the refrigerator (George Gladir script, Dan DeCarlo pencils, Rudy Lapick inks, 1 page). "Salvage Rights": Reggie takes a rough ride (Inker unknown, 6 pages). 36 pages. Full-color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20

Add to cart Good $2.50

Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick cover. Frank Doyle scripts unless noted, Harry Lucey pencils, Marty Epp inks unless noted, Bill Yoshida letters. Li'l Jinx by Joe Edwards. "The Natural Thing": Archie's calm causes distress (5 pages). "Collide Slide": Moose's performance breaks a leg (George Gladir script, Inker unknown, 1 page). "The Hang Up": The latest youth fashion upsets the elders (Writer unknown, inker unknown, 8 pages). "Sad Dad": Mr. Lodge brings the party inside (George Gladir script, 1 page). Li'l Jinx in "Weather or Not!": Jinx makes it rain (1 page). Archie the 1st in "Summer Fun and Summer Not": Prehistoric vacationing takes a toll (6 pages). 36 pages. Full-color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $2.50

Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick cover. Frank Doyle scripts unless noted, Harry Lucey pencils, Marty Epp inks unless noted, Bill Yoshida letters. Li'l Jinx by Joe Edwards. "Waste Not Want Not": Archie and Jughead make a stink (Dick Malmgren script, 6 pages). "Shape Up or Ship Out": Archie overexerts himself (5 pages). Li'l Jinx in "There's a Catch": Jinx turns the tide (1 page). "Five Page Fooler": Archie gets a new name (5 pages). "Saturday's Children": Fred gets what he asks for (Chic Stone inks, 5 pages). 36 pages. Full-color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $3.80

Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Marty Epp and Chic Stone. Veronica reluctantly agrees to go to a public beach, but brings along a luxurious private tent in "Choice Location"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "A Fight Sight" by Joe Edwards; Archie and Mr. Lodge play golf with Betty and Veronica, whose skimpy golfing outfits drive the entire course into a frenzy in "Tee'd Off"; Archie does the household chores, but keeps cutting and painting everything in the shape of Veronica in "Art Project"; and the gang unsuccessfully tries to cool off on a scorching hot day in "Movie Magic"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.50

Add to cart Good $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Chic Stone and unknown. Archie tells us the story of how he chose to stand Veronica up for a date in order to protect Jughead from being beaten up by a bully in "The Choice"! Plus: Miss Grundy introduces two young French-Canadian friends, Richard and Michelle, who wear maple leafs on their sweaters to show that they're Canadian, in "Love Thy Neighbor"; Coach Kleats shows Archie and Reggie a thing or two after they imply that he's too old to be a good athlete in "The Lesson"; and prehistoric Archie invents baseball in "The Sporting Life"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $3.49

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Good $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. A narrator is skeptical of Archie's resolution to avoid getting into trouble, especially after Archie stops to help a beautiful woman into her car and winds up being late for school, in "So What's New?" Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "No Contest" by Joe Edwards; Archie and Jughead get a dolly to help them move Mr. Weatherbee's file cabinet, but first they decide to take a ride on the dolly themselves, in "Hello Dolly"; at Coach Kleats' request, Archie trains Moose to control his temper in "The Peacemaker"; and Archie and Reggie organize the school dance, and they decide to make it an exclusive affair with a high ticket price and a limited number of tickets, in "The Organizers"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20

Add to cart Good $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. Veronica thinks her cousin Bertram is a dear saintly little boy, when he's actually an obnoxious brat who constantly torments Archie in "The Helping Hand"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "It's a Draw" by Joe Edwards; everyone has his or her own opinion about what's causing Archie to fall down all the time in "Sole Brother"; Archie can't find anything in his room after his mother cleans it up for him in "The Order of Things"; and Archie is worried about an upcoming test, but when he accidentally gets a look at the answers, he can't bring himself to cheat in "Happiness Is..."! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Good $2.50

Add to cart Good $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. Every time Archie buys something for Veronica, Reggie swipes it and gives it to Veronica as his own in "Success At Last"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Mizspel!" by Joe Edwards; Mr. Svensen has over-waxed the school floors again, something even he has to admit when he becomes the latest of many people to slip on them, in "The Floor Plan"; the modern Archie gang suspects they might have lived through all this before, and they're right, as another prehistoric Archie adventure proves, in "Two Worlds"; and no one wants to be around Archie because they're all convinced that his sneezing means he's catching a cold in "Cold Comfort"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $4.30

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Fair $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Dan DeCarlo and Chic Stone. Archie and Jughead make fun of the girls' taste for abstract modern art made from ordinary household objects in "Art Smart"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Hold That Tiger!" by Joe Edwards; Archie pin-up; Archie doesn't understand why a professional golfer would be superstitious about his lucky hat, until he puts on a similar hat and starts having a terrific run of luck in "Keep It Under Your Hat"; Archie becomes obsessed with breaking out of his routine and trying new things, which leads to constant pain for him and his friends in "Change Of Heart"; and Archie and Jughead volunteer to sweep the school halls, but Mr. Weatherbee thinks it's just an excuse to get out of class and goof off, in "Come Clean"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $3.80

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.49

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Dan DeCarlo & Jim DeCarlo, Joe Edwards and Harry Lucey & Chic Stone. Archie and Chuck meet a boy who has run away from home in search of adventure, and team up to show him that the independent life isn't all it's cracked up to be in "Adventureland"! Plus: a mysterious little boy arrives in town, spreading love and understanding to any person he talks to in "Stranger in Town"; Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Hi Strung" by Joe Edwards; and Mr. Lodge puts out a duplicate of his priceless new vase, reasoning that Archie will break this vase and get his destructiveness out of his system, making it safe to display the real vase in "Compulsion"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.49

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. All the boys are crazy for the new substitute teacher, Miss Betty Lou Clutchgrapple, a gorgeous miniskirted young blonde who prefers to tell funny stories instead of teaching anything, in "Age Before Duty"! Plus: Li'l Jinx says it's her environmental duty not to take a bath in the 1-pager "Ecology Logic?" by Joe Edwards; Archie and Jughead take up jogging in "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Jog, Jog, Joggin' Along"; Veronica bakes Archie an apple pie, and when it turns out to be good, he infuriates Veronica by asking her what she did wrong in "Apple of My Eye"; and Archie brings a bucket of moldy fried chicken into the school, leading Mr. Weatherbee to complain to the founder of Colonel Sturdley's Southern Fried Chicken in "Miss Beazley Gets the Bird"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle, George Gladir, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. The Christmas season doesn't seem to change Reggie's usual rottenness, but Jughead argues that even Reggie can't resist the compulsion to be nice at Christmas time in "Temptation"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Cleaning Up!" by Joe Edwards; the regular characters fail to listen to the radio on a snowy day, and wind up trapped inside the school on a day when all the schools are closed in "Snow Day"; Archie once again double-books, promising to help Veronica and Betty with their Christmas shopping at the same time, in "Shopper Comes a Cropper"; and Archie is angry at Reggie for buying him a cheap Christmas gift in "The Giving Game"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Fair $2.50

Last 20c cover priced issue. Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. Archie can't seem to wake up during the weekdays in "The Rising Son"! Plus: Reggie tries to get Archie to "duel" for Veronica's affections in "Honor Bright"; Archie's dad gets fed up with his son's clumsiness in "The Learning Process"; Li'l Jinx gets mad at Greg for bubble blowing in the 1-pager "Bubble Trouble" by Joe Edwards; and Archie sneaks a puppy into school and tries to hide it the best he can from the faculty in "The Hideout"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $4.30

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Good $2.50

First 25c cover priced issue. Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Chic Stone and unknown. Betty and Veronica take Archie's genuine Maori war club away from him in "Clubs Are Trumps"! Plus: Li'l Jinx looks for something to bring to school for show and tell in the 2-pager "Who's Excited" by Joe Edwards; Archie and Jughead dream of becoming adventurers in "The Adventurers"; Archie becomes angry when everyone responds to his questions with more questions in "The Answer Man"; and Archie and Jughead find some old kilts and decide to wear them in "On the Prowl"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fine $6.00	Add to cart FN 6.0 $6.00	Add to cart Very Good $3.20	Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20
Add to cart Good $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. Mr. Weatherbee gets angry at the boys for pitching pennies in the hall in "Here's the Pitch"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "The Lunch Crunch" by Joe Edwards; After Archie and Reggie make fun of Jughead, they hear he's down at the docks about to board a tramp steamer for parts unknown, and fear they drove him to leave town, in "Sailor Beware"; Archie's mother asks him to wash the dishes and the clothes while she's out, tasks which Archie considers unmanly, in "Mother's Little Helper"; and Jughead is constantly making up wild stories about history, which annoys Archie until his friend's storytelling abilities come in handy with Moose in "History Mystery"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. When Archie is cast as a turn-of-the-century song-and-dance man in the school musical, he keeps his costume, straw hat and cane with him at all times, and his obsessive dancing leads to a lot of people getting hurt in "The Final Curtain"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Cutting Remarks" by Joe Edwards; any time Archie tells his parents that he's going to the store, they give him a dozen errands to run while he's on his way in "Mission Impossible (Absolutely)"; going through an intellectually-superior stage, Archie scoffs at his parents for watching detective shows and sitcoms on TV every night, and tries to get them to turn off the TV and try more "worthwhile" forms of entertainment in "Mental Block"; and Archie is convinced that everyone at school hates him when no one will talk in front of him in "The Outcast"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. As Archie prepares for a rugged nature hike with Jughead, his friends offer supplies for his backpack, including caviar and bunny slippers, in "Roughing It"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Peaceful?" by Joe Edwards; Archie and Veronica go into hysterics at a bad old joke from Mr. Lodge ("What's a Grecian urn?"), causing Lodge to think that every joke he tells will inevitably crack people up, in "The Comic"; Archie suggests that to learn to be more tolerant of each other, the gang should play "switch," where each person pretends to be someone else and tries to see the world through his or her eyes, in "Play Switch"; and Archie suffers from a mysterious pain in his foot in "If the Shoe Fits"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart VG 4.0 $3.20

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle and Joe Edwards. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. In a parody of "Robinson Crusoe," Archie is the shipwreck survivor stranded on a desert island and Jughead is the only other human being on the island. Except things don't go quite the way they did in the book in "Robinson Gruesome"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Think or Swim!" by Joe Edwards; after he forgets about a date with Veronica and stands her up, Archie tries to save his hide by pretending he has amnesia in "Memories"; Fred and Archie both tell Mary to back off when she's constantly reminding her son of things he might have forgotten in "Growing Pains"; and a narrator tells us the fable of Orangelocks and the three birds in "An Archiefable"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $3.80

Add to cart Very Good $3.20

Add to cart GD 2.0 $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone. The pain of walking on a hot beach with bare feet leads Archie into even worse disasters as he tries to get some relief for his aching tootsies in "Sandman"! Plus: Archie brings a big magnet to the beach, and while he's arguing with Jughead about who the "they" are in the term "they say," everyone's metal possessions are attracted to the magnet in "Attractive Nuisance"; Archie has to attend an outdoor party at the Lodges' on a "hot, muggy and steaming" night, and finds that all the guests except Veronica are just as miserable in the heat as he is in "Cool Cookie"; and on a hot day at the beach, Archie wears a huge sombrero to get some shade, and demonstrates that the hat can also be used to fight crime in "Hat Trick"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $2.50

Add to cart Good $2.50

Cover by Dan DeCarlo & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Chic Stone and Joe Edwards. Archie sees Betty leave a travel agency with a plane ticket to Baghdad, and imagines ghastly scenarios for why she's leaving the country. Then she passes the ticket to Jughead, and Archie imagines what will happen to him in exotic lands. Then Jughead gives the ticket to Veronica in "Just Travel Along"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "Window Pain!" by Joe Edwards; Betty and Veronica go with Archie to the carnival, where Veronica thinks he's acting like a chauvinist, in "Rights and Wrongs"; Jughead and Reggie annoy Archie while he's painting the house in "The Brush Off"; and after Archie declares that he's going to do something he never did before, his friends think he's challenged Moose to a fight in "The Protectors"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.