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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Archie
Title: Archie Double Digest
Page Count: 164
Genre: Adventure, Children, Humor, Spy, Teen
Era: Modern
Cover Price: 3.99 USD
Cover Date: March 2014
UPC: 76281646951724911
ISBN:
Country: United States
There's been a rash of robberies in Riverdale committed by someone known as the "Roly-Poly Robber," a corpulent man with thick black hair and a mustache, who makes his getaway in a foreign compact car. Archie doesn't think much of it until he looks inside the trunk Mr. Weatherbee's Yakasaki Pigeon and discovers that the principal owns a black wig and a mustache to match. Is Mr. Weatherbee the Roly-Poly Robber? Archie and his friends will find out the truth about Mr. Weatherbee when they go to a Dixieland jazz concert at the local college.; Betty and Veronica are captured by Dr. Doom and Sandman, but they escape and stop them from capturing the rest of the R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. group.; Voltman's plan is to incapacitate Mr. Lodge, making him useless to Lodge Enterprises.; Resenting the teachers' belief that accidents naturally happen when he's around, Archie tries to prove that trouble can happen when he's not around.; While waiting for a call from Veronica, Archie is bombarded with calls from telemarketers.; When Archie and the gang decide to hold a "foam dance" at the school gym, the soap bubbles needed for the dance get out of control.; Archie and Jughead participate in a demo of a new sports video game system.; Archie helps disguise Mr. Lodge by ruining his clothes.; Professor Gibbons tries to prove that his pet monkey, Nippy, is as smart as the average student.; Fred gives Archie a can of fluid to fix the squeak in his car door and he begins to use it on everything.; Mr. Weatherbee believes Archie is late to school because he broke his hand.; Pat helps his father build a barbecue grill.; As a favor to his father, Archie stops at the post office on his way to Veronica's house.; Mr. Lodge is showing off a special safe he had installed and is accidentally locked in with the only tuning fork that produces the sound to unlock the safe. But The Archies play until they recreate the right sound to free him.; Archie and his father argue over which way a portrait of Archie's Great-Uncle Albert is tilting.; In order to help their fathers relax, Archie and Veronica play a doubles tennis match against them.; After taking a part-time job at Bumley's Department Store, Archie finds that the money he's making is disappearing quickly.; When his car breaks down Archie reluctantly decides to take the school bus, only to find the younger kids on the bus look up to him.; Tired of Veronica's dirty tricks to separate her from Archie, Betty trails the couple to the mall, then begins walking into Archie's line of sight while wearing different clothes and wigs, in order to convince him he's so obsessed with Betty that he's seeing her face on other women.; Mr. Lodge thinks that Archie is hazardous to his health.; Archie has hurt his leg and has to use a cane so Veronica decides to give him a fashion makeover.; Oswald tries to show Pat how to fly a kite.; Archie helps Mr. Lodge find his glasses.; Archie is mad at Moose so he tapes a picture of Moose on the drum he carries in the marching band.; Jughead is making a sculpture of Archie.; Archie couldn't have thrown the paper airplane, he was asleep in study hall.; Archie can't even find the correct test room.