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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Archie
Title: Archie's Madhouse
Page Count: 36
Genre: Humor, Science Fiction, Spy, Superhero
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.12 USD
Cover Date: February 1966
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Country: United States
Agents 0098 and 0099 graduate spy school, become gofers for more respected agents, and bumble their way into stopping "Notorious Spy, Mr. Silverfinger" with a toaster.; Professor Transistor invents spy weapons. The Chief decides to send the Professor on a mission to Pizzarovia.; Ruby, Emerald, and Sapphire easily defeat the efforts of the "Union of Super Heroes" to stop their crimes because the villains' bodies are made of solid gemstone, and "diamonds are the hardest substance in the world". Carborundum Man defeats the male villains "with psychology", and ends story by proposing to Sapphire.; Martian anthropomorphic tigers decide to vacation on Earth because of Earth's commercials. On Earth, they become offended by the "Put a Tiger in Your Tank" gasoline campaign, kidnap a Madison Avenue spokesperson, and return to Mars to start a Martian ad campaign for "Clawo Gas! It puts a Human in your tank!"; Someone eats a cereal "shot from rockets".; Martians mistake a female ice-skater's clumsiness as a new dance.; After a 10 year journey, Earthmen are ready to "make history" by finally reaching distant planet Zoro. They land and are met by ... other Earthmen. Last panel dialog reads "Five years after you left Earth we invented a faster rocket that covered this distance in only ONE YEAR!"; A spy steals a girl's diary. A spy shoots a turnpike toll gun.; A photographer has trouble getting a monster to smile for a picture. He succeeds when he has the monster look at a vulture instead of a toy bird.; Earth explorers land on Mars and find the inhabitants act just the same as Earth people.