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Issue Details

Issue #240
Published December 1974
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "What is about to become extinct?"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Archie story "Just Travel Along"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis 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...
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Chic Stone
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes Starting with this story, Harry Lucey replaces Betty's ponytail with a more typically '70s hairstyle. He would use this look for Betty in most of his stories until his retirement in 1976, though the other Archie artists stuck with the ponytail.

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Window Pain!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

5 page Archie story "Rights and Wrongs"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Betty and Veronica go with Archie to the carnival, where Veronica thinks he's acting like a chauvinist.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Chic Stone
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

5 page Archie story "The Brush Off"

Characters Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Jughead and Reggie annoy Archie while he's painting the house.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Chic Stone
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Archie story "The Protectors"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
Synopsis After Archie declares that he's going to do something he never did before, his friends think he's challenged Moose to a fight.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Chic Stone
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida