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Issue: Archie #150
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Brand: Archie SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/10/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 11 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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:  
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Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Bob White
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
We just arrived and already Archie has the ball rolling!
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Miscellaneous
1
Cruise Director

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Doyle
Harry Lucey
Mario Acquaviva
?
Mario Acquaviva
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Hiram Lodge; Chip (a boat mechanic)
Mr. Lodge has Archie take a borrowed boat back to the mechanic and exchange it for Mr. Lodge's boat, which was being repaired. But Archie isn't sure about the boats' controls and ends up causing more damage.
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Miscellaneous
6
Archie is singing "I wanna hold your hand" (a Beatles song) in the splash panel.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Bendix Corporation
You called for a piano tuner?
A boy calls a piano tuner to help him fix all the cables on his bicycle. The piano tuner recommends replacing the cables with the Bendix automatic bike axle.
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Ad in comic format for Bendix Automatic bicycle axles. The Bendix Corporation, Eclipse Machine Division, Elmira, N.Y. Art style is influenced by Peter Max.
A Gasser

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Samm Schwartz ?
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?
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Joe (a gas station attendant)
Archie gets Joe to give him some gas quick as Archie is late to a ball game. But Archie comes back when he forgets his stamps.
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Miscellaneous
1
That's What Counts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Edwards
Joe Edwards
Joe Edwards
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Joe Edwards
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Li'l Jinx
Li'l Jinx; Greg
One boy is "it" in a game of hide and seek because he can count higher than anyone else.
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Miscellaneous
1
The Acid Test

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Doyle
Harry Lucey
Mario Acquaviva
?
Mario Acquaviva
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Professor Flutesnoot; Waldo Weatherbee; Mr. Johnson (the janitor); Geraldine Grundy
Archie accidentally drops a beaker of acid that eats through the chemistry floor. Banned from the chemistry lab, Mr. Weatherbee asks Archie to polish his chair and desk. But Archie accidentally adds a small test tube of acid into the varnish, which eats away the varnish brushes as well as the legs of Mr. Weatherbee's desk.
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FlagArchie Double Digest #225 published March 2012
as The Acid Test [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Dig This Crazy Offer!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Harry Lucey
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?
?
Subject Matter
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
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Miscellaneous
1
Promo for subscriptions to Archie's Pals 'n' Gals, with mail-in coupon. Four issues for $1.00 plus a bonus issue.
Spellbound

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Doyle
Harry Lucey
Mario Acquaviva
?
Mario Acquaviva
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
When Archie leaves Betty and Jughead to spend time with Veronica, the two jilted friends curse the two lovers. Unbeknownst to all of them, the curses come true.
Reprinting
FlagArchie Comics Digest #2 published October 1973
as Spellbound [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Archie Club News
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Miscellaneous
1.5
First prize of $5.00 to James Busby (Oyster Bay, N.Y.) for article on having mice for pets. Second prize of $3.00 to Zena Bruinsma (Holland, Mich.) for her story of immigrating from the Netherlands to Michigan. Third prize of $2.00 to Debra Rochtaschel (Rochester, N.Y.) for five jokes. The third prize article on the second page has the same border used on the Archie's Madhouse covers.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
typeset
Subject Matter
Archie Club
Archie Andrews (cameo)
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Promo for memberships in the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 15 cents.
Everything's Coming Up Roses

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Doyle
Harry Lucey
Mario Acquaviva
?
Mario Acquaviva
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Harris (a neighbor of the Lodges)
Archie picks some of Mr. Lodge's prize roses as a gift to Veronica. To make up for the blunder, Archie then digs up one of the Lodges' neighbor's rose bushes and gives it to Mr. Lodge as a replacement.
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FlagArchie Comics Digest #2 published October 1973
as Everything's Coming Up Roses [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
The title comes from the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from the 1959 Broadway musical "Gypsy."

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