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Issue: Life with Archie #180
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/31/1977
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000696304
Price: $0.30 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 22 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Editorial credits taken from Statement of Ownership.
On sale date from the Comic Reader #140.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Title Page
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adventure, humorous, teen
Harvey
Get away from that window!!! You snoopers have no business here!!!
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Poor Dumb Thing

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humorous, teen
Poor, dumb Melody -- she can't get the hang of skateboarding!
Jealous of the attention Melody attracts, Josie distracts the boys with Hostess Fruit Pies.
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Advertisement for apple and cherry Hostess Fruit Pies.
Inside front cover.
Radio Rogues

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adventure, humorous, teen
Ralph; Harvey; Hapless Hangman; Lazy Larry; Floating Factory
After Veronica's CB radio is stolen, Archie enlists the aid of his trucker friends to help retrieve it.
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FlagThe Best of Archie #[nn] published January 1980
as Radio Rogues [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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This story is peppered throughout with CB radio jargon and their translations into English.
Story is told in two parts; no logo is present.
Indicia on bottom of first page.
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100 little dolls all for $2.00
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Advertisement for miniature plastic toy dolls from the 100 Doll Co.
A Laff Spell!

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childrens, humorous
What's so funny in a dictionary, Fat Charley?
Charley laughs at the way words are spelled in the dictionary.
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humorous, teen
Beanpolski
We're way behind! Can't you do something to stop their scoring?
Coach Kleats' basketball players are not very bright.
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from Archie newspaper strip (King Features Syndicate) 1961-01-17
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Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

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STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP; MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685).

1. Title of publication: Life with Archie.
2. Date of filing: Oct 1, 1976.
3-Frequency of issue: Monthly.
3A. No of issues published annually: 12.
3B. Annual subscription price: $4.60.

6. Names and addresses of publisher, editor and managing editor
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc., 1116 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021.
Editor: John L. Goldwater, 1116 First Avenue. New York, N.Y. 10021.
Managing editor: Richard H. Goldwater, 1116 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021.

10. Extent and nature of circulation:
A. Total no. copies printed:
Average no. copies each issue during preceding 12 months, 326,685.
Actual no. of copies of single issue published nearest to filing date, 340,201.
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Ella C. Botkin (photo); Joseph Marshall (photo); Lorenzo Du Pont (photo)
Be proud! Be happy! Be well-paid!
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Advertisement for courses offered by the Upholstery and Decorating School.
Includes testimonials from Ella C. Botkin (Verona, Va.), Joseph Marshall (N. Providence, R.I.) and Lorenzo Du Pont (Shawinigan, Que., Can.).
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Make extra cash no real 'selling' just show this sample we give you free!
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Advertisement for the personalized metal social security plates sales kit from Engravaplates.
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Enter the wonderful world of amazing live sea-monkeys
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Advertisement for sea-monkeys from Mirobar Sales Corp.
Inside Stuff Puzzle

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Wouldn't it be great if you knew what people were thinking?
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Fill-in-the-dotted-letters puzzle.
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Amazing! Long nail formula builds glamorous longer nails in minutes!
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Advertisement for the Sta-Long fingernail care kit from Conover House.
Linebacker Larceny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure, humorous, teen
Bob Benson; Honker
Everybody wants to be what they're not --- so it was only natural for little Bob Benson to be eaten up with hero worship over the guys who were big enough to make the football team!
When Reggie suspects a kid of stealing the football team's plays to give to another team he and Archie follow him to investigate.
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Credits from the reprint in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #104.
Story is told in two parts; logo only featured on first page of Part II.
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Remember how many times you felt left out because you were broke?
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Advertisement for the newspaper sales kit from Grit Publishing Co.
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Tim Newcomer (photo)
You can earn extra money like Tim Newcomer
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Advertisement for the beauty products sales kit from Blair.
Includes testimonial from Tim Newcomer (Philadelphia).
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Enjoy your afternoons with 'The Archies'! We'll fill your television screen with music, fun and great entertainment.
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No letters featured in this edition of Archie Club News. Instead, it is a promotion of different television stations across the United States which carry the the TV show 'The Archies'.
Includes membership application form for the Archie Club.
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Jughead With Archie Digest
It's something special! It's a giant Jughead with Archie Comics Digest (no. 19) in full color!
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Advertisement for Jughead With Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #20, or possibly #19. Ad text specifies #19, but the order form and miniature, redrawn cover indicate #20.
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Archie Comics
Pick a winner every time!
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Advertisement for the following Archie comics: Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #232; Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) #257; Pep (Archie, 1940 series) #325; Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) #314; Life With Archie (Archie, 1958 series) #181; Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #264; Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #262; Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #44; Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #113; Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #118; Archie's TV Laugh-Out (Archie, 1969 series) #48; Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #56; Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Archie, 1971 series) #38; Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #91; Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #84; Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #96; Jughead's Jokes (Archie, 1967 series) #53; Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes (Archie, 1968 series) #41; Archie Giant Series Magazine #456, #457.
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Nature's mysterious hungry plant
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Advertisement for carnivorous plants from PH Sales.
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Super bodybuilding course
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Advertisement for the bodybuilding system from Universal Bodybuilding.
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J.S.C.A. has it all for you!
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Advertisement for the greeting card sales kit from Junior Sales Club of America.
Inside back cover.
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Dig'em Frog; The Apple Jack Kids
Win a Sears free-spirit bike
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Advertisement for the Kellogg's 4th Annual Stick up for Breakfast Contest, offering a prize of a Free Spirit bicycle from Sears.
Back cover.

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