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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Archie
Title: Archie's Madhouse
Page Count: 36
Genre: Fashion, Humor, Satire-parody, Teen
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1961
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Country: United States
Mr. Weatherbee recounts how Robert Bobwhite invented comic books.; Problems for teens in other countries: Scotland, Congo, North Pole, India, China, Iraq, and South Sea.; Various teen-oriented events: telephone marathon, making-school-on-time steeplechase, Ice box raid, canoe date contest, kissing free-style, bringing-date-home-on-time dash, and rock 'n' roll weight lift.; Otto von Jughead shows us how action star Elvis Rockmore is saved from missing a trapeze, being thrown off a cliff, meeting a bear, and meeting a vampire.; A series of one-panel gags.; Ad for "Alibi Anonymous Bulletins" magazine, with ready-made alibis for various situations.; Jughead demonstrates the various ways to wear a necktie. Also two gags involving Betty and Veronica.; Boys and girls wonder if the things the opposite sex do are intentional. Also suspicions about test questions, TV westerns, dress designers, umpires, and what parents suspect about their children.; Ideas on how to improve westerns, baseball, weather reports, game shows, and horror shows.; What school would be like if each desk had a telephone and each classroom was monitored by closed-circuit television.; Things that work in one situation, but don't in another.; Moose writes letters to various people including Archie and the President of the United States.; Girl's friend dishes dirt on the girl's boyfriend, then grabs him one the rebound. Double-daters have to cruise around until they find a movie the backseat couple hasn't seen. But then those two don't watch the movie.; Jughead paints an abstract painting of a female, who falls in love with him.; Advertising parody selling a box of quiz answers. No questions, just the answers.; Advertising parody about a rubber stamp for girls to label "Mine" on the foreheads of their boyfriends.; Items that could have been linked to historical figures.; Guess which one is going to be given a quarter to leave the room, borrowed his brother's tux, just found out his date's father hates rock 'n' roll, and just fell in love for the first time.