Dates
- Cover date
- March 1987
- On sale
- January 1, 1987
- Pages
- 132
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #79 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Canadian price edition1.50 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.50 CAD.
Barcode 02710006996679 · shared with another edition
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Creators
Stories
- Rhyme Without Reason · 6 pages
Jughead starts talking in rhyme all the time, and infects everyone else with the rhyming bug, to the point where no one in the entire school can stop rhyming. Betty and Veronica team up to accomplish the only thing that can break the spell: hitting Jughead in the head.
- Pet Set · 0.5 pages
Reggie's favorite pet is a parrot.
- Vain Vein · 0.5 pages
Reggie thinks the security guards are lucky, they get to look at Reggie all day.
- Say the Magic Word · 5 pages
Everybody has a special word that they respond to.
- Get the Message? · 5 pages
Archie makes Veronica mad, then hides behind Jughead.
- Attention Getter · 1 pages
Jinx wears a top-hat and funny glasses, trying to get noticed by her parents.
- It's No Joke · 6 pages
Miss Beazly sends Archie to deliver some hot tea and lemon to Mr. Weatherbee.
- A Fast Shovel · 5 pages
Charley tries to earn some money by shoveling walks.
- Great Day for a Picnic · 5 pages
Archie has to shovel the driveway and decides to use the grill to heat the shovel to speed things along. Soon his friends show up and they have a cook-out in the snow.
- One for the Book! · 6 pages
- A Wrap Session · 5 pages
At the ski slope, everyone tries to go down Suicide Hill--except Jughead, who has another idea.
- Doing a Number Number · 0.5 pages
Midge questions Moose about his grades.
- Puck Pluck · 0.5 pages
Moose fails to grasp the finer points of ice hockey.
- Shoe Shoe Baby · 5 pages
To get to school after a night of freezing rain, Archie wears a pair of spiked golf shoes. But he doesn't consider what to do once he gets to school.
- That's the Spirit · 1 pages
The Riverdale marching band spells out a message for the football team.
- Hole in One · 0.5 pages
Archie's baseball makes a hole in Jug's painting canvas.
- Never Say Die · 0.5 pages
Jughead gives Archie advice on how to get his allowance raised.
- Race Chase · 6 pages
Archie wants to see the demonstration of Mr. Lodge's new snowmobile.
- The Sound of Music · 6 pages
The Archies recruit Dilton to troubleshoot electrical problems in their sound system. He grounds to the water line, piping music throughout the Lodge mansion, then to the sewer line, piping music throughout the city.
- Court Report · 6 pages
When Coach Kleats discovers that Jughead has an uncanny skill at basketball, he drafts him onto the varsity squad. With a big game about to start, though, Jughead decides to take a little nap. And nothing his friends can do will wake him.
- Time Clock · 1 pages
Reggie dislikes punching in every day.
- Noteworthy · 6 pages
When Veronica breaks her date with Archie, Fred tries to cheer his son up.
- Paper Mates · 5 pages
Rather than buy Jinx an expensive Japanese doll to compete with Gigi, Hap shows her the art of origami.
- Skate Mate · 1 pages
Jughead has trouble ice-skating.
- Knock on Jug · 6 pages
Ethel protests that she isn't superstitious, even as she manipulates her Jughead voodoo love doll.
- Man Talk · 6 pages
Archie's grades are slipping so his father tries to stop him from going out on a Saturday night.
- Blind Luck · 3 pages
- Now 'ear This · 1 pages
Lacking earmuffs, Jinx improvises.
- Dance Fever · 5 pages
- Science Saga · 5 pages
Jughead borrows Dilton's robot and uses it to do everything for him.
- Trail’s End · 6 pages
Miss Grundy reminds everyone how Mr. Weatherbee feels about dirty floors after the students track in snow and slush from outside. They all pitch in to mop the floors and yell at the next 'idiot' to mess up the floors - Mr. Weatherbee.
- Quiz Fizz · 0.5 pages
After a multiple choice test, Reggie can only communicate with multiple choice options.
- Gas Sass · 0.5 pages
Reggie reminds Veronica of a jet.