Dates
- Cover date
- April 1990
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #214 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$1.00 cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Canadian price edition1.20 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.20 CAD.
Barcode 07189646750504 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Newsstand edition$1.00 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07189646750504 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Private Defectives · 6 pages
Archie and Jughead watch a television show about dangerous criminals on the loose. Later, when Mr. Lodge is trying to evade Archie in disguise, the boys think they have spotted a fugitive.
- Top Drawer · Chuck Clayton · 5 pages
Chuck finds a way to make money drawing cartoons so that he can buy a car, but now he's so busy he doesn't have time to take Nancy out.
- The Best Policy · 5 pages
Ethel knows how to clear up a misunderstanding between Jughead and Joani, but she considers keeping it a secret so she can go out with Jughead herself.
- The Mess · 1 pages
Sabrina uses magic to clean her room.
- The Gas Guzzler · 5 pages
Archie gets to borrow his uncle's new car so he goes to take Veronica out for a drive, but the car uses so much gas that his funds are soon wiped out.
Reprinted in
Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (1992), Jughead's Double Digest (1989), The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (1977), World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2010), Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2011), Archie & Friends Double Digest Magazine (2011), Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (2014)