Dates
- Cover date
- 1956-1957
- On sale
- June 12, 1956
- Pages
- 100
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition25¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Poor Little Rich Whirl · 7 pages
Betty is jealous of Veronica's wealth. Veronica invites her for an overnight visit to emphasize her wealth and get her to give up Archie. But there is a twist when Betty phones home to talk to her mother and Veronica finds herself envying Betty's close ties to her parents as opposed to her usually-absent mother and father.
- The Straight and Narrow · 0.5 pages
Jughead can't paint a straight line because he has hiccups.
- Watered Down · 0.5 pages
Betty can't hear Veronica through the shower door.
- Hide and Shriek · 5 pages
Archie, Reggie and Jughead try to avoid three girls who want to invite them to a girls-ask-boys dance.
- Eye Sore · 0.5 pages
An attractive girls passes by Archie and Veronica and Archie claims not to notice other girls when he's with Veronica and then criticizes ever detail of the other girl.
- Retained · 0.5 pages
Reggie volunteers Jughead for a job as a delivery boy.
- Lens Me Your Heart · 4 pages
Archie and his friends decide to write a feature article in the school paper about Miss Grundy but they don't want her to know about it so they ask her some questions and then make up an excuse that it's just to keep on file in case they need to write her obituary. Miss Grundy then overhears the plan for Jughead (the photographer) to shoot Miss Grundy in the hall.
- Money Muff · 0.5 pages
Archie saves money by no longer stopping for ice cream every day.
- TV Tickle · 0.5 pages
Archie and Reggie think there's a horror show on TV, but it's actually Mr. Lodge fixing the set.
- Soil Foil · 4.67 pages
Reggie's father tells him to move a large pile of loam around to the back of the yard but Reggie cons Archie into doing the work for him.
- Untitled · 0.33 pages
Archie is late to his job at Pop's.
- A Vase Daze · 1 pages
Archie smashes Mr. Weatherbee's vase when he bumps into him in the hallway.
- Fence Sense · 0.5 pages
Archie is happy to paint the fence because a pretty girl is sunbathing in the next garden.
- Cat Nipped! · Archie and His Pop · 1 pages
Archie's father comes home with a good catch of fish but decides to not tell Archie's mother until after she's finished razzing him about not catching anything.
- Noble Nibble · 0.5 pages
Jughead uses a gallant kiss of Betty's hand as a way to get a bite of her food.
- Rumors are Lying! · 2 pages
Betty has a dream that Archie asked her to go steady. When she shares that dream with others it turns into a rumor.
- Heads Up · 0.33 pages
- Zoot Yourself! · 2.75 pages
Betty and Veronica refuse a date with Archie and Reggie because of their clothes, so Reggie takes Archie to Cal's Classy Clothes where they end up buying oversized outfits. When Betty and Veronica see them, they assume the boys knew the date was for a masquerade party.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Archie says wives would be great umpires because they never think a man's safe when he's out.
- Follow the Swallow! · 4.75 pages
As part of her technique of dealing with boys, Veronica gives Archie a hard time to keep him off balance. Jughead mentions to Veronica that every time Archie leaves Veronica's house he goes over to Betty's house, so she decides to try a different technique.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Fred appreciates good music because he hid Archie's violin.
- Fright for Sore Eyes! · 4 pages
Archie offers to look for a prowler outside the Lodge mansion.
- Share Cropper! · 4.75 pages
Mr. Lodge encourages Veronica to share Archie with Betty, so Veronica sabotages the date by loaning Betty an expensive gown to go with Archie's $2 budget.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Veronica says the dance at the hospital kept her busy because all the surgeons kept cutting in.
- Old and New-rosis · 4 pages
Mr. Weatherbee and Miss Grundy send Jughead to a psychiatrist to see why he eats so much.
- Buttons and Beaux · 3 pages
Jughead helps Archie get in good with Mr. Lodge by giving him buttons for Mr. Lodge's collection.
- Chairful Tidings · 4 pages
Archie answers the door at Veronica's house and tells Mrs. Mammoth to take a chair - meaning to have a seat. She calls in her driver to take a chair out of the house and into her car as she was there to collect items for a charity auction but the chair was Mr. Lodge's favorite.
- Counter Attack · 5 pages
Archie says he doesn't have to see or hear Veronica to know that she's around because she radiates magnetic influences that attract him. Betty tries to show Archie that she radiates even more than Veronica by kissing him while placing her wristwatch with radium covered numerals near a Geiger counter.
- Surf-Bored! · 3 pages
Jughead accidentally performs in a water devils stunt show behind a speedboat after Archie's ice cream drops down his back.
- Reserved Decision · 4.75 pages
Veronica gets mad at Archie for saying Betty's name in a game of 'guess who' and then gets mad at Betty. Archie then has to find a way to get Betty's extra tickets to a benefit at the Bijou so he can take Veronica.
- C Worthy · 0.25 pages
Jughead's grades are underwater because they're below C level.
- Coat of Armistice · 4 pages
In order to decide who gets to dance with Veronica, Jughead suggests that Archie and Reggie have a contest in which the person who can get Moose to remove his coat wins.
- Runaway Ruse · 3 pages
In an effort to get Archie away from Veronica, Reggie goads Archie into trying out for the spring athletics and then takes Archie to a swimming hole and takes his clothes while Archie is in the water.
- Easel Does It · 4 pages
Fred takes up oil painting after Mary says golf may be too strenuous.
- Day of Daze! · 5 pages
Archie wakes up feeling fantastic - like today is his day and nothing can go wrong. As the day progresses everything goes wrong.
- Fish and Flips · 2 pages
Jealous over the girls mooning over Archie -- who is a lifeguard at the beach-- Reggie puts on a shark costume to scare him and the girls. Noticing the "shark", Jughead uses his new spear gun to wound it and scare it away, getting kisses of thanks from the girls.
Characters
Reprinted in
Archie Annual (1951), Archie Comics Digest (1973), The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (1977), Archie's Double Digest Magazine (1984), Jughead's Double Digest (1989), Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (1992), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (1952), Archie Giant Series Magazine (1954), Archie's Pal Jughead (1956), Pep (1956), Jughead with Archie Digest (1974), Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (1977), Betty & Veronica Summer Fun (2003), The Best of Archie Comics (2011), Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2011), Archie Showcase Digest (2020)