Dates
- Cover date
- 1959-1960
- On sale
- June 9, 1959
- Pages
- 84
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #11 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition25¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- A Star Is Born · 8 pages
Mr. Lodge's friend swindles him out of $2,000 with a worthless painting. Later the friend overhears Archie and Veronica talking about the Lodge's gardener Michael Angelo and jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Lodge has acquired a real Michelangelo and offers to buy it.
- Date Deflate · 6 pages
Betty's new friend sees Archie and Veronica together and wants an introduction. Betty stalls because she doesn't want her gorgeous friend to catch Archie. She talks to Archie, who conceitedly agrees to meet the new girl in the park so Veronica won't know about it. Reggie overhears the conversation and rushes to tell Veronica. So the park meeting has an extra attendee, but also an unexpected conclusion.
- So's Your Aunt Mathilda · 5 pages
Betty can't get her handsome new neighbor to notice her. She tells Jughead her problem and he suggests that she write to "Aunt Mathilda's Advice to the Lovelorn" column.
- Un-faithfully Yours · 1 pages
Veronica is out of town, so Archie decides to ask Betty to the dance. He brags that Betty won't go anywhere without him, but gets deflated by her way of accepting his invitation.
- What's the Pitch? · 6 pages
No one on the baseball team can pitch. Coach Kleats wanders the hallways and finds a tall boy who is great throwing an apple core. Coach hustles him to baseball practice where he proves to be just as good with a baseball. Unfortunately, when Monday comes, the pitching phenom is not around.
- Scalp-Treatment! · 2.67 pages
All the boys are wearing Mohawk-style wigs as a fad. Archie shows up with a Mohawk, too; but nobody told him about the wigs.
- Cold Comfort · 0.33 pages
Moose has a cold and the doctor tells him to drink a glass of lemonade after a hot bath. Moose gets the instructions confused.
- Sheep Ahoy! · 1 pages
Moose has insomnia. Archie makes some suggestions, but Moose has already tried them.
- Some Plumbing · Archie's Pal Jughead · 0.5 pages
Jughead is using his hands to plug a hole in the water pipe in the school hallway.
- Calm and Collected · Archie's Pal Jughead · 6 pages
Jughead wants Reggie to help him clean out a garage for half of $10. Reggie refuses, saying he needs to rest up for the party he's hosting that evening. At the party, Jughead suggests a scavenger hunt, and just happens to give party-goers clues for finding items in a certain garage.
- The Giant Hunters · 1 pages
Article about whale-hunting.
- Hole in One · 0.5 pages
Shrimpy wants Peggy to watch the hole he's been digging, while he goes home. She wonders if someone is going to steal it.
- The Whole Truth · 0.5 pages
Shrimpy says he's not digging a hole, he's making a hill.
- Stars and Gripes · 5 pages
Archie wins a contest and gets a date with movie star Jane Bustle. He doesn't know who she is, but Mr. Weatherbee does, and says she was quite a beauty--after World War I. Since there is food involved, Archie is able to palm off the prize to Jughead, who ends up getting escorted by some lovely young ladies.
- An Ear for Music! · Archie's Pal Jughead · 4 pages
Reggie tries to pull a mean trick on the new kid, Tuffy, when he thinks Jughead told him Tuffy was "stone deaf." What Jughead really said was "tone-deaf," meaning he couldn't tell one musical note from another.
- Art for Moose Sake! · 0.5 pages
Moose tries to paint a portrait of Midge, but has to stop when he runs out of paint.
- Help Wanted · 2 pages
Archie's father decides to stay overnight on a business trip. Later he feels guilty about leaving his wife and Archie alone and takes a midnight plane back home. When he gets home, he finds they are perfectly able to take care of themselves.
- Batter Up! · 1 pages
When none of Jinx's friends can help her with batting practice, she results to using a pop-up toaster and toast as a substitute.
- Imagine That · Archie's Pal Jughead · 6 pages
Jughead pulls a gag on Archie and Reggie by running a yelling that Biff Bolsen is coming! After Archie and Reggie panic, they realize that there is no Biff Bolsen. To get even, they go to the seedy part of town and hire a thug to chase them and tell everyone that he's Biff Bolsen. The revenge gag almost works, except that "Biff" decides to insult Moose.
- John Brown · 1 pages
Brief biography of John Brown as the leader of the anti-slavery movement in Kansas and as the leader of the attack at Harper's Ferry in 1859.
- Diet Riot · 6 pages
Mr. Weatherbee is ordered to go on a diet, with Miss Grundy in charge of seeing he stays on it. Mr. Weatherbee eventually becomes so obsessed with food that he steals items off the student's trays in the cafeteria at lunch.
- A Thousand Times 'Know'! · 1 pages
Moose comes up with some fractured logic to justify not studying for his exams.
- No Help Wanted · 6 pages
Archie's father gets two tickets to the boxing match. Archie already has a date with Veronica for that night. Jughead tries to help, but after unsuccessfully talking to Veronica, goes to Archie's father and explains the situation. His father decides to give the tickets to Jughead. Meanwhile, Veronica has had a change of heart and decides to let Archie go to the fights. Jughead and Veronica then meet and decide that the only thing to do is use the tickets themselves.
Characters
Reprinted in
Archie Comics Digest (1973), Archie Annual Digest (1975), Archie's Double Digest Magazine (1984), Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (1985), Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (1987), World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2010), Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (2014), Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (2016), Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash (2016)