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Issue: Archie #140

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Publication Date: September 1963

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Detail

Issues: #140 of 565 Issues (689 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: Archie Series

Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/19/1963

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.12 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Richard Goldwater

Notes: On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.; then Standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In3

1 Content Item
- Bulb Snatcher [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted as/ in another Issue.

2 Content Items
- Sand Crab [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- Bulb Snatcher [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle

First Line: Archie, I crown you the “Michelangelo of surfboard painters”!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Sand Crab

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge

Synopsis: Mr. Lodge has a miserable day at a public beach, and finally decides to buy the whole beach just for the pleasure of keeping people off it.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Archie Comics Digest #2 published October 1973
as Sand Crab [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Animal Antics

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis: Archie says his dog is learning foreign languages in school.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Walkee Talkee...

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Press Agent

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge

Synopsis: When Mr. Lodge is getting a bad reputation in South America, Archie tries to get him some positive press, but winds up getting his picture published on a reward poster for wanted criminal "Killer" Kane, which leads to Mr. Lodge's arrest and Killer Kane's escape to Brazil.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Notes: A boy in the story is wearing a beanie like Jughead's, a throwback to a time when that was a common hat for small boys.

Bulb Snatcher

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis: Archie tries to get bulbs for Pop Tate's new fluorescent light fixture, but keeps breaking them on the way to the shop.

Reprinting

In Issue:

Archie's Double Digest Magazine #116 [Newsstand] published July 2000

In Content Item: Flag

Archie Double Digest #231 [Direct Edition] published September 2012
as Bulb Snatcher [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5