Issue Details

Issue	#22
Published	October 1962
Cover Price	0.12 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Richard Goldwater
Notes	This issue introduced Sabrina the Teen-Age witch, created by Dan DeCarlo and George Gladir. She would make intermittent appearances in "Mad House" throughout the decade, finally getting her own comic in the early '70s after Filmation turned her into a Saturday morning cartoon.

Cover Details - "Can't you read the sign?"

Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Pencils	Bob White ?

5 page Archie's Mad House story "Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch"

Characters	Sabrina; Salem; Della
Synopsis	Meet Sabrina, a sexy teen witch who lives a typical teen-age life -- except that her job is to hex her fellow teens. She introduces us to the rules of witchery: witches can't cry, can't sink when they're in the water, and if they ever fall in love, they lose their powers.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo
Notes	First appearance of Sabrina, her cat Salem, and Della the Head Witch. Much of this early version of Sabrina appears to be based on the play "Bell, Book and Candle" and the film version, starring Kim Novak. The rule about witches losing their powers if they fall in love and the inability of witches to cry (both of which were dropped in subsequent versions of Sabrina) were used in "Bell, Book and Candle," and Sabrina's cat Salem is similar to Pyewacket, the witch's familiar in "Bell, Book and Candle."

1 page Les n' Ches story "Name Game"

Characters	Chester Square; Lester Cool
Synopsis	Chester can't get in a fancy restaurant, but Lester can.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo

1 page Les Cool and Ches Square story "Big Rig"

Characters	Lester Cool; Chester Square
Synopsis	Les goes into a haunted house full of mouse traps.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo

2 page Monsters story "Scare Your Fellow Monsters"

Synopsis	An advertisement for methods that monsters can use to scare each other.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick

1 page text article "A Funny Thing About Monsters..."

Letters

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6 page Archie's Mad House story "The Romances of Marcia the Mermaid"

Characters	Marcia Mermaid
Synopsis	The tale of Marcia, a mermaid who constantly falls in love with human teenage boys.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo

3 page Archie's Mad House story "The Act"

Synopsis	A journalist is sent to interview a ventriloquist.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Orlando Busino
Inks	Orlando Busino

1 page Archie's Mad House story "Hexy Pin-Ups"

Synopsis	Hilda and Ava, the witches, fight each other by proxy.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo

1 page Archie's Mad House story "Bombs Away"

Synopsis	Two aliens encounter a hideous weapon on earth.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo

2 page Archie's Mad House story "Animals From Outer Space"

Synopsis	Hybrid animals from other planets.
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick

1 page Archie's Mad House story "Space Sports"

Synopsis	Aliens try to go to a sci-fi movie.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick

1 page Archie's Mad House story "Go Modern Young Man"

Synopsis	A witch doctor's son comes back to Africa after studying in America.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo

5 page Archie's Mad House story "Snowboy"

Characters	Art Tick; Dagmar
Synopsis	A living snowman gets the cold shoulder from all the other teens until he falls in love with a warm-blooded girl.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo

1 page Archie's Mad House story "Happy Endings"

Synopsis	In answer to complaints about the lack of happy endings in this comic, four panels with generic happy endings.
Genre	teen; humor; fantasy
Script	George Gladir
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Inks	Rudy Lapick
Letters	Vincent DeCarlo