Archie Annual #17

(1965-1966)

How I Learned to Draw Comics (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Art Directors' Course / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Rumor Has It (Table of Contents: 2)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

Mario Acquaviva

Colors

?

Letters

Mario Acquaviva

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis

Reggie breaks up Archie's date with Veronica by revealing that Archie has been kissing Betty. But before Reggie can take Veronica out, he gets the impression that she's been stepping out with every man in sight.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #12 (January 1976)

Keywords

kissing; telephone

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

The Adventures of Patty & Andy, The Popsicle Twins; Popsicle / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Funny Honey (Table of Contents: 4)

Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

George Gladir

Pencils

Dan DeCarlo

Inks

Rudy Lapick

Colors

?

Letters

Vincent DeCarlo

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Veronica is uninterested in doing anything with Archie, until Betty shows up.

Keywords

beach; Civil War cap; picnic basket

Clothes Conscious (Table of Contents: 5)

Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Dan DeCarlo

Inks

Rudy Lapick

Colors

?

Letters

Vincent DeCarlo

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis

Betty goes over to Veronica's house to flaunt her new dress in front of Archie. Veronica retaliates by changing into one skimpy new outfit after another, but Archie, preoccupied with a jigsaw puzzle, doesn't notice any of them.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #20 (October 1976)
• in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #7 (July 1983)

Keywords

dresses; jigsaw puzzle

Look No Hands (Table of Contents: 6)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Edwards

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday

Synopsis

Jinx figures out a way to eat dinner without washing her hands.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #10 (September 1975)

Keywords

gloves; sandbox

Keep Cool (Table of Contents: 7)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Vigoda

Inks

Marty Epp

Colors

?

Letters

Marty Epp

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews

Synopsis

When Fred decides to invest in a room air conditioner, Archie convinces him to get a second-hand unit so they can use the left-over money to buy a color TV.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #14 (October 1975)

Keywords

air-conditioner; color television; junkyard

The Experiment (Table of Contents: 8)

Archie / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Vigoda

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee

Synopsis

Mr. Weatherbee tries an experiment: teaching a class via video monitor. The kids take advantage of the fact that Weatherbee isn't physically there.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #14 (May 1976)

Keywords

closed-circuit TV

Tough Talk (Table of Contents: 9)

Reggie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Vigoda

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Reggie, you sit right there until I finish dressing!

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Reggie Mantle; Harriet

Synopsis

The father of Reggie's date tells Reggie to stand up for himself.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #17 (July 1985)

Keywords

apron; dish-washing

The Rejected (Table of Contents: 10)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

Mario Acquaviva

Colors

?

Letters

Mario Acquaviva

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate

Synopsis

Archie and Veronica try to ditch their friends so they can get some time alone together, but they're disappointed to realize that no one actually wants to spend time with them.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #11 (November 1975)
• in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #54 (October 1998), #105 (September 2004), #152 (September 2009)
• in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #321 (August 2021)

Indexer Notes

A billboard on page two says "Read Laugh Comics."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Archie Club News / letters page / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

First prize of $5.00 to Jennifer Dion (Hershey, Pa.) for article on Yankee Doodle. Second prize of $3.00 to Gladys Godiner (Chicago, Ill.) for article on the peccary. Third prize of $2.00 to Mary Barron (Lakewood, N.J.) for article on a puppet show she and her friends performed. Fourth prize of $1.00 to Shelley Samier (Johnson City, Tenn.) for article on popcorn. Fifth prize of $1.00 to Andrew B. Howard (Plainview, N.Y.) for two jokes.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

False Alarm! (Table of Contents: 13)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Edwards

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday

Synopsis

Jinx cleans up when her father calls her, but all he wanted to know is where she was.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #10 (September 1975)

Keywords

mud; washing

Rescue Work (Table of Contents: 14)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump

Synopsis

Reggie tricks Archie into climbing up into a tree to rescue a cat that belongs not to a girl, but to Reggie. He tries the trick on Moose, but the outcome is a bit different.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #10 (September 1975)

Keywords

cat; practical joke; tree-climbing

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Archie's Jokes / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pass the Word (Table of Contents: 16)

Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Dan DeCarlo

Inks

Rudy Lapick

Colors

?

Letters

Vincent DeCarlo

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy

Synopsis

When Archie and Veronica aren't speaking, Archie asks Betty to give a message to Ronnie for him, consisting only of the words "You, too!" This leads to an endless chain of angry messages until finally none of the kids are speaking to each other.

Reprints

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #17 (November 1976)

Keywords

insults

Beach Party (Table of Contents: 17)

Betty and Veronica / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dan DeCarlo

Inks

Rudy Lapick

Colors

?

Letters

Vincent DeCarlo

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis

Everyone except Jughead is having fun at the beach party.

Keywords

beach; beach ball; dancing; inner tube; transistor radio

The Gentlemen (Table of Contents: 18)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Vigoda

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

Vincent DeCarlo

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis

Archie and Reggie fight over whose umbrella will shelter Veronica in the rain.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #3 (July 1982)

Keywords

umbrella

Dig This Crazy Offer! (Table of Contents: 19) (Expand) /

Archie's Pals 'n' Gals / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Boy Joy (Table of Contents: 20)

Big Ethel / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

George Gladir

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

teen; humor

Characters

Ethel Muggs; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones

Synopsis

Ethel explains her criteria for choosing a boy.

Reprints

• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #23 (July 1986)

Blow Hot Blow Cool (Table of Contents: 21)

Archie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Harry Lucey

Inks

Mario Acquaviva

Colors

?

Letters

Mario Acquaviva

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate

Synopsis

Pop Tate's new air conditioner makes the Chok'lit Shoppe so cold that everyone has to bundle up and buy hot chocolate instead of ice cream.

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #2 (September 1975)
• in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #4 (October 1982)

Keywords

air conditioner