Archie (1943 Archie Comics) comic books 1962

Cover pencils by Harry Lucey. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Harold and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Harold, Marty Epp, Terry Szenics and unknown. With Smithers on vacation, Mr. Lodge hires a hideous-looking temporary replacement to scare Archie away in "Help Wanted"! Plus: Shrimpy in the 1-pager "Tree Love!" by Joe Harold; the athletic commission investigates Coach Kleats' use of ringers on his team in the 1-pager "Footballitis!"; Archie's superhuman ability to balance things causes other people to panic, snatch the things away, and break them in "Unbalanced"; in a fight between Archie and Reggie, the teachers get differing impressions of who punched out who in "Takes Two To Tangle"; and a combination of a strange chemical solution and radiation from a machine causes Archie's hand to become invisible in "Heads Up"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $15.00

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $15.00

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Harold and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics and Joe Harold. The world's smallest monster, a tiny creature with a very loud voice, helps Archie get revenge on Reggie in "Big Mouth"! Plus: Shrimpy in the half-pagers "No Smoking" and "The End"; Archie, Reggie and Jughead go bobsledding in the 1-pager "Speed to Spare"; Reggie's state-of-the-art go-kart annoys Archie but impresses Veronica, who asks Reggie to let her drive it in "Go, Man, Go!"; the gang inspects a haunted house, and they all assume that the ghosts are just tricks the others rigged up to scare them in "It Ghost To Show You"; and an accident involving a nuclear testing lab leaves Archie with a radioactive charge that causes a basketball to be magnetically attracted to his hands in "Follow the Bouncing Ball"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Marty Epp and Terry Szenics. Jughead tries everything he can think of to cure Archie's hiccups in "The Cure"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "No Dogs Allowed!" by Joe Edwards; it's too cold for the "Polar Bear Club" to go swimming in the lake, but the club President Archie tries to go swimming anyway in the 1-pager "Deep Freeze"; Archie and Jughead are assigned to rake the leaves outside the school, but the leaves keep winding up in Mr. Weatherbee's office in "Leave It To Grundy"; Mr. Lodge rigs up an expensive security system to keep Archie out of his house, but Archie keeps getting in without apparent effort in "The Unwanted"; and Archie is having "One Of Those Days" when he's unusually clumsy and destructive, and everyone, including his mother, friends and teachers, is scared to be near him! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

15¢ price variant. Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Marty Epp and Terry Szenics. Jughead tries everything he can think of to cure Archie's hiccups in "The Cure"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "No Dogs Allowed!" by Joe Edwards; it's too cold for the "Polar Bear Club" to go swimming in the lake, but the club President Archie tries to go swimming anyway in the 1-pager "Deep Freeze"; Archie and Jughead are assigned to rake the leaves outside the school, but the leaves keep winding up in Mr. Weatherbee's office in "Leave It To Grundy"; Mr. Lodge rigs up an expensive security system to keep Archie out of his house, but Archie keeps getting in without apparent effort in "The Unwanted"; and Archie is having "One Of Those Days" when he's unusually clumsy and destructive, and everyone, including his mother, friends and teachers, is scared to be near him! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and George Gladir. Art by Harry Lucey & Terry Szenics and Joe Edwards. Archie points out to the gang how they can improve their games, but they end up injuring themselves following his advice in "The Fault Finder"! Plus: Li'l Jinx's dad orders her to the tub in the 1-pager "It's Tub To You!" by Joe Edwards; the boys want to see a haunted castle and are offered a one-way trip there by a ghoulish taxi driver in the 1-pager "Haunt Taunt"; Archie gets a magic charm from Jughead in "The Claw"; Archie and Mr. Lodge have to figure out how to get the Lodges' modern kitchen to work with its push-button-hidden, appliances-and-drawers electronic system in "Button-Button"; and when Archie sees Veronica with a date, he casually swears off girls forever in "Cliff-Hanger"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Harold and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Dan DeCarlo, Samm Schwartz, Joe Harold, Marty Epp and unknown. Archie shows off his new jacket to Jughead at Pop's. Reggie comes in doing the same thing, but his jacket is obviously more expensive. Archie buys some flowers for Veronica, and Reggie does too, only bigger and better ones. Feeling outclassed, Archie gives up. But Reggie's ego gets the better of him at Veronica's house in "Money Talks (Too Much)"! Plus: Veronica asks Archie to go to a fashion show with her, and needs a Yes or Yes answer from him in the 0.33-pager "My Unfair Lady"; Archie discusses his first memory of girls in the 0.33-pager "Ladies Man"; Moose takes a first aid quiz in the 0.33-pager "Quiz Quazy"; one of Shrimpy's friends learns two words that help him finish reading any book in the half-pager "Read and Right" by Joe Harold; Mr. Weatherbee decides that passive-resistance is the best way to handle the boys breaking the school rules in "Killjoy"; Jughead has a spray that kills anything that bugs him in "Push-Button Peace"; and everyone thinks that Archie is writing about them in his little black book, and conspire to get it from him in "The Little Black Book"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $6.00

Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. Archie's convinced he's a juvenile delinquent. Mr Andrews convinces him he's not when Archie fails a juvenile delinquent test in "The Reject"! Plus: Li'l Jinx's teacher tells her she's a promising student in the 1-pager "Promising" by Joe Edwards; Jughead and Archie are talking about science fiction when Betty's large jello slips away from her in the 1-pager "The Peril"; Archie creates a gag gift for Professor Flutesnoot: a hollowed book filled with lead pellets for "heavy reading" in "Weights and Measures"; Reggie tricks Archie into being a ticket collector at a dance, leaving Veronica free for Reggie to date in "Odd Ball"; and when Archie runs into a tree, he starts having a conversation with a ghostly twin in "His Own Worst Enemy"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

15¢ Test Market Variant. Cover by Bob White. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey and Joe Edwards. Archie's convinced he's a juvenile delinquent. Mr Andrews convinces him he's not when Archie fails a juvenile delinquent test in "The Reject"! Plus: Li'l Jinx's teacher tells her she's a promising student in the 1-pager "Promising" by Joe Edwards; Jughead and Archie are talking about science fiction when Betty's large jello slips away from her in the 1-pager "The Peril"; Archie creates a gag gift for Professor Flutesnoot: a hollowed book filled with lead pellets for "heavy reading" in "Weights and Measures"; Reggie tricks Archie into being a ticket collector at a dance, leaving Veronica free for Reggie to date in "Odd Ball"; and when Archie runs into a tree, he starts having a conversation with a ghostly twin in "His Own Worst Enemy"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Samm Schwartz. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards and George Gladir. Art by Harry Lucey, Joe Edwards, Dan DeCarlo, Rudy Lapick and Marty Epp. Archie does push-ups to try and obey President Kennedy's call for the youth of America to exercise more, but it turns out that the gang actually gets more exercise when they're just having fun in "The Lazy Ones"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the 1-pager "A Jet Bet" by Joe Edwards; Archie tries to throw an iron ball attached to a chain in the 1-pager "Wayward Whirl"; Archie makes up an elaborate scenario to argue that when he brought a baseball glove to a date with Veronica, it was actually for her own protection in "The Avenger"; Jughead and Betty discuss the fact that whenever Archie starts well, he finishes badly in "Start To Finish"; and Archie dreams he's on a planet where robots are terrorized by gorgeous Amazon "monster" women in "Prisoner of Love"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $8.00

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.20

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.

15¢ 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 $0.15.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $25.00 Water damage.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $17.00

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.