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Issue: Archie Annual #8
Publication Date: January 1956
 
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Variant: 25¢ Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 100
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Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 42 (36 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US, latter issues standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Archie
Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Betty, will I see you at the country club dance tonight? Archie's taking me!
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Poor Little Rich Whirl

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humorous, teen
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Webster (butler)
Hi, Archiekins!
Betty is jealous of Veronica's wealth. Veronica invites her for an overnight visit to emphasize her wealth and get her to give up Archie. But there is a twist when Betty phones home to talk to her mother and Veronica finds herself envying Betty's close ties to her parents as opposed to her usually-absent mother and father.
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The Straight and Narrow

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humorous, teen
Jughead
Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee
Jughead, I want you to draw a straight line down the middle of the hall to relieve traffic congestion!
Jughead can't paint a straight line because he has hiccups.
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Watered Down

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humorous, teen
Betty
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Oh Betty, hurry up in there, I want to take a shower!
Betty can't hear Veronica through the shower door.
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Hide and Shriek

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot
Looky Here!
Archie, Reggie and Jughead try to avoid three girls who want to invite them to a girls-ask-boys dance.
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In this issue Miss Grundy is referred to as Amanda.
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Eye Sore

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
My, wasn't than an attractive girl?
An attractive girls passes by Archie and Veronica and Archie claims not to notice other girls when he's with Veronica and then criticizes ever detail of the other girl.
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Retained

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Jughead
Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Say, Son, I'm looking for a smart boy to help me make deliveries!
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Lens Me Your Heart

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Geraldine Grundy
Holy smoke! We have no feature article for this issue of the school paper!
Archie and his friends decide to write a feature article in the school paper about Miss Grundy but they don't want her to know about it so they ask her some questions and then make up an excuse that it's just to keep on file in case they need to write her obituary. Miss Grundy then overhears the plan for Jughead (the photographer) to shoot Miss Grundy in the hall.
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Mike Was a Rolling Menace Until...

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U. S. Royals
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Money Muff

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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Moose Mason
Yessir, I'm starting to save the ol' dough, Moose!
Archie saves money by no longer stopping for ice cream every day.
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TV Tickle

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Hey, Reg! Let's go over to Ronnie's and see her new color TV!
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Soil Foil

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humorous, teen
Archie's Rival Reggie
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Ricky Mantle; Vicky Mantle
S'long Mom, Dad...
Reggie's father tells him to move a large pile of loam around to the back of the yard but Reggie cons Archie into doing the work for him.
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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Pop Tate
What a chump I was to hire Archie to work for me...
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A Vase Daze

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee
Yipee! School is out!
Archie smashes Mr. Weatherbee's vase when he bumps into him in the hallway.
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Fence Sense

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
Archie, our back fence needs painting again...
Archie is happy to paint the fence because a pretty girl is sunbathing in the next garden.
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Cat Nipped

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humorous, teen
Archie and His Pop
Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
Ha! Ha! This is one time your mother won't get a chance to kid me about not catching any fish!
Archie's father comes home with a good catch of fish but decides to not tell Archie's mother until after she's finished razzing him about not catching anything.
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Noble Nibble

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humorous, teen
Archie's Pal Jughead
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
You're giving a wonderful masquerade party, Ronnie!
Jughead uses a gallant kiss of Betty's hand as a way to get a bite of her food.
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Rumors are Lying!

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humorous, teen
Betty
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
I had the most beautiful dream last night!
Betty has a dream that Archie asked her to go steady. When she shares that dream with others it turns into a rumor.
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Veronica Fun Page

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Veronica Fun Page
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Headsup
What ever made you give her an engagement ring?
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Zoot Yourself!

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Sure, we'd love a date for tonight!
Betty and Veronica insult the clothes worn by Archie and Reggie so Reggie takes Archie to Cal's Classy Clothes where they end up buying oversized outfits. When Betty and Veronica see them they assume they're going to a masquerade party.
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Y'know, Reg...wives would make terrific baseball umpires!
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Follow the Swallow!

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Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Tsk! Tsk! That boy is a glutton for punishment!
As part of her technique of dealing with boys Veronica gives Archie a hard time to keep him off balance. Jughead mentions to Veronica that every time Archie leaves Veronica's house he goes over to Betty's house so she decides to try a different technique.
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Archie
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
My father appreciates good music!
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Fright for Sore Eyes!

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Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lode; Hiram Lodge; Jughead Jones; Hermione Lodge
I'm going over to Veronica's tonight!
Archie offers to look for a prowler outside the Lodge mansion.
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Share Cropper!

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Tsk, tsk! Poor Betty!
Mr. Lodge encourages Veronica to share Archie with Betty.
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
How was the dance at the hospital, Ronnie?
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Archie Fun Page
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Old and New-rosis

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humorous, teen
Jughead
Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
Jughead, after all my warnings why did I catch you eating in class again!
Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy send Jughead to a psychiatrist to see why he eats so much.
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Buttons and Beaux

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humorous
Archie
Trying to bribe me so I won't toss you out!
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Chairful Tidings

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Mrs. Mammoth
Oh Archie, would you see who's at the door please?
Archie answers the door at Veronica's house and tells Mrs. Mammoth to take a chair - meaning to have a seat. She calls in her driver to take a chair out of the house and into her car as she was there to collect items for a charity auction but the chair was Mr. Lodge's favorite.
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Archie Fun Page
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Counter Attack

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Professor Flutesnoot
Archie! Wake up!
Archie says he doesn't have to see or hear Veronica to know that she's around because she radiates magnetic influences that attract him. Betty tries to show Archie that she radiates even more than Veronica by kissing him while placing her wristwatch with radium covered numerals near a Geiger counter.
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Surf-Bored!

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humorous, teen
Archie's Pal Jughead
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
This ought to be some show, huh?
Jughead accidentally performs in a water devils stunt show behind a speedboat after Archie's ice cream drops down his back.
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Reserved Decision

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Guess who?
Veronica gets mad at Archie for saying Betty's name in a game of 'guess who' and then gets mad at Betty. Archie then has to find a way to get Betty's extras tickets to a benefit at the bijou so he can take Veronica.
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C Worthy

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Jughead
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
How are your marks this term?
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Coat of Armistice

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
Look out, carrot-top!
In order to decide who gets to dance with Veronica, Jughead suggests that Archie and Reggie have a contest in which the person who can get Moose to remove his coat wins.
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Runaway Ruse

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humorous, teen
Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Aw, it's disgusting the way those two lovebirds carry on!
In an effort to get Archie away from Veronica Reggie goads Archie into trying out for the spring athletics then takes Archie to a swimming hole and takes his clothes while Archie is in the water.
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Easel Does It

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Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
Hot Dog! What a perfect day for golf!
Fred takes up oil painting after deciding golf may be too strenuous.
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Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
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Day of Daze!

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Archie
Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Boy-o-boy! Do I feel good!
Archie wakes up feeling fantastic - like today was his day and nothing can go wrong. As the day progresses everything goes wrong.
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Fish and Flips

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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Isn't Archie simply the handsomest!
Jealous over the girls mooning over Archie -- who is a lifeguard at the beach-- Reggie puts on a shark costume to scare him and the girls. Noticing the "shark", Jughead uses his new spear gun to wound it and scare it away, getting kisses of thanks from the girls.
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Be a Leader!

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Columbia Bicycles
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Illustrated ad for Columbia bicycles.

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