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Issue: Archie Double Digest #223
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/26/2011
Volume: none
Pages: 164
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UPC/EAN: 72262746951923
Price: $3.99 USD
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Content Items: 53 (26 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Special Holiday issue.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Four Color
Dimensions: Digest
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Ongoing Series
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Archie
Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
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An Old School Yule

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Hal Lifson (credited)
Bill Galvan (credited)
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Phil Felix (credited)
Victor Gorelick (editor/editor-in-chief)
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Mr. Weatherbee
Archie and the gang decide to do an old school Christmas and also throw a party to help the less fortunate.
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Archie Meets KISS
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Christmas in Riverdale!

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The Holidaze!

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George Gladir (credited)
Fernando Ruiz (credited)
Al Nickerson (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
Jack Morelli (credited)
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Jughead
Jughead Jones; Ethel Muggs; Moose Mason; Chuck Clayton; Midge Klump; Archie Andrews; Nancy Woods; Betty Cooper; Tomoko; Mr. Weatherbee
All Jughead wants to do on his Christmas vacation is relax but everybody else has plans for him.
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Pop's Day Off

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Bill Golliher (credited)
Rex Lindsey (credited)
Rex Lindsey (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
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Archie & Friends
Pop Tate; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
Archie and the gang decide to run the restaurant for a day so Pop Tate can have a day off to do his holiday shopping.
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Wait Right Here

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Kathleen Webb (credited)
Dan DeCarlo (credited)
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Barry Grossman
Bill Yoshida
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Betty doesn't appear rich enough to buy anything.
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Archie the Married Life
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Craig Boldman (signed)
Henry Scarpelli (signed)
Henry Scarpelli (signed)
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
Wow. It's nice and warm in your house, Reggie!
Reggie ran out of money so is giving Jughead an old football for Christmas.
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Kathleen Webb (credited)
Dan DeCarlo (credited)
Mike Esposito (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Mr. Jacques; Jason (Veronica's chauffeur)
With Veronica sick in bed, Betty does her Christmas shopping for her and bargains all the shop-keepers down.
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The Great Tree Spree

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Bill Golliher (credited)
Rex Lindsey (credited)
Rex Lindsey (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
Bill Yoshida (credited)
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Archie & Friends
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Cheryl Blossom; H.M. Bugg
H.M. Bugg has been buying up all the Christmas trees in Riverdale and making toothpicks out of them.
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Life with Archie Magazine
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Out on a Limb

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Frank Doyle (credited)
Bill Vigoda (credited)
Bill Vigoda (credited)
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Archie
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy
Archie helps put up Christmas decorations for Mr. Weatherbee at the school but accidentally breaks the metal deer he is supposed to put in the schoolyard.
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Spectacular Christmas Fashions

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Archie Andrews; Chuck Clayton; Moose Mason; Nancy; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Midge
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Sabrina
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Tree-Mendous

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Dick Malmgren (credited)
Rudy Lapick (credited)
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Harvey
Aunt Hilda wants to use magic to get her Christmas tree done immediately but Sabrina and Harvey want to go cut one down the old fashioned way.
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Power Struggle

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Frank Doyle (credited)
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Sabrina
Sabrina; Jingles the elf; Aunt Hilda
Sabrina and Jingles get in a magic contest.
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Snow Job

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Harvey
Harvey; Aunt Hilda
Aunt Hilda gets Harvey a Christmas present that he can use at her house.
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Yule Yowl

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George Gladir (credited)
Stan Goldberg (credited)
Stan Goldberg (credited)
Barry Grossman
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Sabrina's Cat Salem
Aunt Hilda (cameo); Aunt Zelda (cameo); Sabrina (cameo); Salem; Rufus
Salem at Christmas.
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The original seven Archie Will You Marry Me issues
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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Daddy misses his favorite album: Christmas Bells!
Archie plays Christmas music for Mr. Lodge.
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Christmas Togetherness

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Frank Doyle (credited)
Dan DeCarlo Jr. (credited)
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humorous
Jughead
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Archie wants to buy his parents a Christmas present that will help bring them closer together.
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Run for the Hills

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Al Hartley (credited)
Al Hartley (credited)
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Barry Grossman (credited)
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Mr. Lodge
Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Smithers
Archie is coming to the Lodge mansion to deliver Christmas gifts but Mr. Lodge and Veronica are worried he will break something.
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Fernando Ruiz (signed)
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Little Archie and Friends
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Shine a Little Light

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Bob Bolling (credited)
Bob Bolling (credited)
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Little Archie
Little Archie Andrews; Sue Stringly; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Sue Stringly shows Little Archie her perfect Christmas tree.
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A Children's Story

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Dexter Taylor (credited)
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Little Archie
Little Archie Andrews; Spotty; Santa Claus; un-named kids
An alternate-universe Santa Claus from "Planet Peewee," a planet populated almost entirely by children, crash-lands his spaceship on Little Archie's roof.
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A Christmas Report

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Dexter Taylor (credited)
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Dexter Taylor
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Little Archie
Little Archie; Pop Tate; Spotty; Mr. O'Malley; Mr. Adams; Mr. Weatherbee
While delivering papers, Archie discovers that a fake Santa Claus is robbing the newspaper office.
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The Archie Babies
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Archie's Weird Mysteries
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A Sure Thing

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Veronica
Veronica Lodge
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Stamp Scamp

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Ethel
Ethel; Betty Cooper
Ethel is waiting for a Christmas card from Jughead.
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Brain Campaign

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Dilton Doiley
Dilton Doiley; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Dilton should not play Santa Claus.
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Season of Magic

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Frank Doyle (credited)
Bob White (credited)
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Jingles the brownie; Reggie Mantle
Jingles the brownie visits Archie and Jughead and torments Reggie Mantle.
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The Best of Archie Comics
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Archie Cyber Adventures
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The Magic Circle

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George Gladir (credited)
Stan Goldberg (credited)
Henry Scarpelli (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
Bill Yoshida (credited)
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humorous
Archie
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Archie gets a job making Christmas wreaths.
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Santa's Yelper

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George Gladir (credited)
Fernando Ruiz (credited)
Al Nickerson (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
Jon D'Agostino (credited)
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humorous
Jughead
Jughead Jones; Santa Claus; Archie Andrews; Chuck Clayton
Jughead helps Santa deliver presents around Riverdale. Santa uses him to eat all the treats so Santa doesn't have to.
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Obama and Palin in Riverdale
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Comic Book Fairs
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Some Things Never Change

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Kathleen Webb (credited)
Jeff Shultz (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Sugar Plum Fairy; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Chuck Clayton; Nancy Woods; Archie Andrews
The Sugar Plum Fairy tries to get Betty and Veronica in the Christmas mood.
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Dreamland Drama

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George Gladir (credited)
Pat Kennedy (credited)
Terry Austin (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Santa Claus
With Santa's workshop having gone high-tech and Santa-robots out delivering toys, there isn't anything for Santa to do so he drops by for a chat with Archie.
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Kissing Game

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Mike Pellowski (credited)
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Barry Grossman (credited)
John Workman (credited)
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Valerie; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Archie can't find the right place to hang the mistletoe for his Christmas party.
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Subscribe Today
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Everything's Archie
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Popfunk
The coolest Archie shirts around!
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"The Empire of Gut and Bone"

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Scholastic Books
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