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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Archie
Title: Archie Comics Digest
Page Count: 164
Genre: Adventure, Children, Detective-mystery, Humor, Superhero, Teen
Era: Bronze
Cover Price: 0.75 USD
Cover Date: April 1978
UPC: 0271000699404
ISBN:
Country: United States
Jughead and Archie plan to mixup ice cream sodas in chemistry class; but are foiled by Mr. Weatherbee. Later Archie accidentally drinks a chemical concoction that turns him into a walking bomb.; Pureheart and Evilheart battle the Tar-Man.; Veronica tells Archie she can't go to the dance, so he asks Betty. Veronica then tells Archie that he has to break his date with Betty so she can take her. Archie goes to his father for advice.; Little Archie and Betty go out bike riding, but a getaway car destroys Betty's bike. Little Archie tries to solve the mystery of who and where the crooks are.; Betty helps Archie solves the mystery of who's throwing snowballs at him and then invisibly blending in with the snow.; Reggie makes fun of the others for bundling up in cold weather. What they don't know is that Reggie is wearing battery-powered long underwear.; Archie uses some junk to convince Reggie that he's got incredible strength and a short temper. Rather than get on his bad side, Reggie offers Archie some tickets to a concert he and Veronica had planned on going to, just as Archie planned.; Archie tries to beat Reggie in a snow-sculpture contest by disguising an old weather balloon as a sculpture of the world.; Veronica tries to give Archie special treatment, including a red carpet, when she hears he has tickets to a personal appearance by movie star Steve McCream. When Mr. Lodge objects that that's bribery, Veronica replies: "I had considered blackmail at first, but then I decided in favor of bribery!"; Jughead makes the rounds trying to find someone who'll give him something to eat for a mid-morning meal.; Archie's band (consisting of him, Jughead, and Dilton) play at a teen club to raise money to buy electric guitars, but Jughead has arranged for the band to be paid in hamburgers instead. Archie's band seems sure to lose to Reggie's heavily-amplified band in a rock 'n roll contest, but something small has a large impact on the outcome.; Betty informs Veronica that Jughead will never give a straight answer to a woman. Veronica tries to put him in a position where he'll have to give her a straight answer.; Archie is spectacularly clumsy and breaks objects and injures anyone he comes near. Veronica and Reggie leave the house to escape him, but Archie still manages to unknowingly hit Reggie with a trash can lid.; Everything Veronica says to Archie makes him feel smaller and smaller, while Betty makes him feel ten feet tall.; Archie wants Jughead to double-date with Veronica and her friend. Jughead is not interested, until he watches a hypnotist do his act.; Miss Grundy is constantly protecting Mr. Weatherbee from getting hit on the head with a rubber ball Archie brought to school.; The boys have an adventuresome game of billiards with the girls.; A big tough guy tells Betty that he's going to beat up "her boyfriend" Archie. Betty is upset at this but overjoyed that people think Archie is her boyfriend.; Reggie makes fun of Archie for injuring his finger in basketball. Reggie then has a series of accidents that leave him in much worse shape.; Jinx gets an insulting Valentine and thinks it's from Greg.; When Reggie learns that Veronica plans on dressing as a knight in armor for a masquerade party, he comes up with a plan to keep her by his side all evening.; Hap and the mailman laugh about Jinx's previous escapades, but Hap gives her a spanking after she says she broke a window today.; Archie gives advice to Jughead and Reggie, but the results are disastrous.; A humorous look at the pitfalls of baby-sitting.; Archie spills glue on Mr. Krosskut's phone.; Miss Grundy loans Veronica a book and accidentally leaves her pay envelope in it.; Archie tries to jump barrels on thin ice.; After her fall hot-dog roast was called off by dry weather, Veronica decides to hold in the winter.; Mr. Svenson is spending his time carving the bars of soap into sculptures.; Miss Grundy wonders if Miss Haggly can see without her glasses.; Mr. Lodge won't let Veronica go with Archie because of the dilapidated state of Archie's car.; Mr. Weatherbee falls over baseball bats lying on the floor and orders Coach Kleats to have them put away.; Mr. Weatherbee wants Svenson to take out an obsolete buzzer, but Svenson misunderstands his order.; Jughead uses saucers for kneepads so he won't spill anything at Veronica's high-society party.; Miss Grundy thinks Miss Haggly should retire from teaching.; Veronica plans to make dinner for Archie, but Betty sabotages the recipe.; An absentminded doctor sticks a ball-point pen in Archie's mouth instead of a thermometer.; Archie absent-mindedly walks under a ladder. He goes back to try to cancel the bad luck, but has a can of paint fall on his head.