Archie's Pal Jughead #78

Dates

Cover date

November 1961

On sale

September 7, 1961

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Paging Paul Revere · 6 pages

  Jughead doesn't care about Riverdale High winning the basketball game until he hears about the victory dinner. He's too excited to sleep, so he decides to call Moose and wish him luck. On the party line, he overhears a conversation about stealing Riverdale's mascot, so he sets out to alarm everyone. The only transportation available is a horse, so Jughead rides through town shouting to foil the planned mascot robbery. His bottom is so sore afterward that he has to stand up during the victory dinner.

• Cool Ghoul · 2 pages

  Jughead pretends the horror movie is so corny it's funny but when Archie's mother taps him on the shoulder, he is so scared he jumps through the window.

• Wrist Twist · 7 pages

  Jughead reads a book about jiu jitsu and learns how to topple people with a flip of his wrist. Coach Kleats puts him in a match against Horrible Herman. Herman knows how to flip people too, so Jughead is only a target for his flying tackle, which sends Jughead against the ropes and bouncing back into Herman's head, knocking him out. Jughead is afraid to shake hands with anyone after the match, for fear of flipping them.

• Pleasant Screams · 4 pages

  Jughead dreams he's in a land full of living hamburgers and that he's on trial for all of his crimes against hamburgers.

• Headline Glamor · 1 pages

  Instructions on how to keep one's hair looking glamorous.

• Namesake · 1 pages

  Li'l Jinx named her turtle "Tonsil" after the character in the fairy tale "Tonsil and Gretel."

• Lazily Yours · 5 pages

  Jughead naps against a tree, thinking nothing ever happens. While he naps, police chase a robber down the street, have a gunfight at the tree where he naps and the police finally catch the robber. A runaway horse leaps right over his head. A pilot ejecting from a crashing jet lands in the tree where Jughead naps. Jughead finally wakes up when he smells Archie and Reggie cooking hamburgers over a campfire three miles away, because that was interesting enough to get up for.

Characters

Reprinted in

Archie Facsimile Edition (2024), Jughead with Archie Digest (1974), The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (1977), Jughead's Double Digest (1989), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974)