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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Archie
Title: Archie Comics Digest
Page Count: 132
Genre: Humor, Teen
Era: Bronze
Cover Price: 0.75 USD
Cover Date: April 1980
UPC: 0271000699404
ISBN:
Country: United States
Archie and Veronica try to meet the rich family from the next town who are even richer than the Lodges.; Betty has won a prize of ten kisses from Archie, which she can collect one at a time at any time she wants. Every time she collects a kiss, she turns into a drooling moron, so that some of her teachers think she's smart and others think she's stupid. This complicates matters when she's selected to represent Riverdale High in an inter-school debate.; To take his mother out on her birthday, Archie has to break a date with Veronica. Afraid to break the date, Archie tells Ronnie he's sick. When Veronica finds out, she's angry that Archie thought she wouldn't understand, so she decides to teach him a lesson.; Archie is babysitting Veronica's little cousin Leroy, who everybody believes needs a good spanking.; The gang wants to go to a moonlight sail but they can't afford it, except for Jughead.; Archie has been invited by Veronica to accompany her to an expensive event at the Country Club, and everyone in school runs away from him to avoid giving him a chance to ask for money.; A doctor puts Mr. Weatherbee on a diet and places Miss Grundy in charge of making sure he sticks to it.; Pipsy must find out why all the athletes have bum knees right before the big game.; After Miss Grundy puts Archie in detention yet again, she thinks she's caught him stealing the hubcaps off her car.; Pop Tate announces that he's going out of business because of rising costs. Betty and Veronica advise him to raise his prices, but he refuses. So the girls come up with a different way to lower Pop's costs.; Archie wins a contest by Slimy Soap which entitles him to a date with a movie star. When he thinks the movie star is really old, he tricks Jughead into taking his place.; Betty writes into an advice column to find out how to get her hunky new neighbor to notice her.; Reggie tries to come up with a new way to clean erasers.; Archie and his friends find a crate. When they try to open it they all get injured.; The Archie gang as characters in a fairy tale where Veronica is the princess who must wed Reggie but she really wants to wed Archie the stable boy.; Archie and the gang visit Hiram's aircraft factory where he is demonstrating a new jet plane for the military.; Jughead helps Betty pick out a dress. Unfortunately it's the same dress he helped half the girls in the school pick out.; Jughead, with the help of Archie and Reggie, has a scheme to sell fake perfume to Betty.; Archie and Reggie get caught playing handball against the building, first by Mr. Weatherbee then by Miss Grundy.; Archie needs to find a fancy suit for his party with Veronica. Jughead offers to help.; Archie has plans with both Betty and Veronica at the same time so he talks Jughead into taking his "study date" with Betty so he can go out with Veronica.; Archie's dad is telling Archie that his mom wants to learn to drive.; Hiram thinks each year is one year closer to when he can't use Veronica as a tax deduction.; Archie and Jughead out jogging.; Veronica is troubled by her split-ends.; Mr. Weatherbee can't find his newspaper.; Has Betty taken up boxing?; Archie's teacher knows the perfect vehicle.; Mr. Weatherbee doesn't like spinach.; Archie got Jughead a wastebasket shaped like a giant jar of peanut butter.; Archie and Jughead are taking pictures of faculty for the yearbook.; Betty tells Veronica about her new neighbor.