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Issue: Archie Giant Series Magazine #5
Publication Date: January 1958
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Issues: #5 of 332 Issues (502 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie Giant SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/02/1958
Volume: none
Pages: 84
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1958 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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: perfect bound; later saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
First Line: An advance on your allowance?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Redrawn for the cover of Archie Comics Digest #3
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Too Many Clauses

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
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Pages: 7
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Gift Rapped

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Feature(s): Archie
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Archie
First Line: This is interesting, Pop-
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Generous To a Fault

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Genres: humorous, teen
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Ring That Belle

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
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All The Trimmings

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jughead Jones
Synopsis: Match up the ornaments with who they were designed for.
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Yule Fool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Moose
Character(s): Moose Mason; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Moose assumes Florida doesn't have Christmas, because of a poster advertising "it's always June in Florida!"
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Top half of p.24. Credits attributed to Tom Moore due to the original art found in Tom Moore's collection of his works, but the art is unsigned.
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Christmas Confidential

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
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Take a Bough

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Reggie
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Buy Buy Baby

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Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
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Archie's Xmas Xword

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: Crossword puzzle in the shape of a fireplace.
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Archie's Letters to Santa Claus

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doiley; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
Synopsis: Each member of the Archie gang writes a letter to Santa Claus.
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Who’s Who

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Feature(s): Betty and Veronica
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The Long Green Christmas

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jughead
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Seasonal Smooch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Reggie
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Shear Luck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Synopsis: Archie and Jughead trim the Christmas tree. By the time it's even, it's a bare trunk.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pg. 70. Credits attributed to Tom Moore due to the original art found in Tom Moore's collection of his works, but the art is unsigned.
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Slay Ride

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Archie
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Pages: 10

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