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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published November 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Archie, you promised me you'd watch the astronaut launching on my TV set!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Genre teen; adventure; humor
Pencils Bob White
Inks Bob White
Notes Like a number of "Life With Archie" covers of this period, this is a relatively generic Archie drawing with the dialogue balloons filled in to relate to the subject matter of the issue.

23 page Life With Archie story "Operation Astronaut!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; X-10; X-12; Major Bryan Foster; Walter Ronkrite
Synopsis A U.S. space capsule misses its target during re-entry, and winds up landing in the Lodge swimming pool. The publicity brings to spies to Riverdale, with a plan to photograph the capsule's top-secret equipment and sell America's space secrets to the enemy.
Genre teen; adventure; humor
Script Sy Reit
Pencils Bob White
Inks Bob White
Notes The enemy spies are caricatures of Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro.
Reprinted in Where's Archie? (Bantam Books, 1974 series) #S6461

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Safety Wise"

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