Dates
- Cover date
- October 2001
- On sale
- August 14, 2001
- Pages
- 196
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #79 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07189646952379
Source ↗ - Direct edition
Direct Edition
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 76281646952407911
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Stories
- Ball Game! · 6 pages
Archie, Jughead and Reggie are unable to get tickets to a baseball game where they had hoped to see Sammy Salsa hit his 300th career home run.
- Lace Race · 1 pages
Jughead accidentally advertises for a Model Race instead of a Model Car Race.
- Vacation Deflation · 6 pages
Archie and Jughead stop by the school on the first day of summer vacation and soon are wishing that summer break is over.
- Crack Knack · 1 pages
The only thing hard enough to crack a coconut is Moose's head.
- Paper Chase · 1 pages
Jughead covers his neighbors paper route.
- Eerie Query · 1 pages
While riding a swing, Jughead grabs Archie's soda.
- Want a Lifesaver? · 6 pages
Jughead is a lifesaver at the beach and Veronica schemes to get him fired.
- Pie Guy · 0.5 pages
Alice caught Jughead blue-handed swiping her pie.
- Serene Scene · 0.5 pages
Jughead and Hot Dog do nothing together.
- Campers' Capers · 11 pages
While showing photos of his experience as a camp counselor, Archie remembers the stories leading to the pictures and each photo is used as a punch line for the story. Thinking he can get a photo of an animal during the night, Archie sets up a trip wire to his camera, but Mr. Weatherbee trips it and falls into the lake in his pajamas.
- Beach Banter · 1 pages
Jughead gets a phone call at the beach.
- Rain Refrain · 1 pages
Rain cancels all their plans at camp but Jughead comes up with a new activity.
- Mixed Signals · 5 pages
Jughead has lost the book with the signals for the big girls vs boys baseball game.
- Mail Travail · 0.5 pages
The mailman notes that Hot Dog has never tried to bite him.
- Joy Ahoy · 0.5 pages
On such a beautiful day, Archie loves mankind.
- The Assignment · 5 pages
Moose wants Reggie to keep the other boys away from Midge during summer school.
- Dolly Folly · 1 pages
The gang is excited about the new inflated beach dolls.
- Sheer Fear · 1 pages
On a hike, Archie wants to get a photo of a bear cub.
- Prize Size · 1 pages
Jughead has his own special-sized mug.
- Good For Nothing · 6 pages
The Archies have to decide between a gig at a children's hospital and a high-paying gig at a country club.
- Jog Jag · 0.5 pages
Jughead gets a pair of jogging shoes for his birthday.
- Loan Groan · 0.5 pages
Jughead needs two dollars from Archie to buy sodas.
- Passing Fancy · 1 pages
Jughead tricks Archie into giving him his dessert.
- Summer Stock! · 6 pages
Archie enrolls Mr. Weatherbee into the Riverdale Summer Stock Play only to have the act cancelled due to inclement weather.
- Reggie Presents Wise-Guy Bowling Tips · 2 pages
Reggie shows good, bad, and best examples of things in bowling.
- Trash Bash · 0.5 pages
Jughead takes out the trash without being asked and his mother faints.
- Prize Size · 0.5 pages
Everyone is studying karate to fight off the mosquitoes at camp.
- Car-Runch · 6 pages
Thinking that it's the key to his success with women, Reggie buys Archie's jalopy.
- Professor Dilton Presents: Before Boys Discovered Girls and Vice Versa · 3 pages
Dilton explains how cavemen and cavewomen discovered kissing.
- Loan Groan · 0.5 pages
Jughead borrows money from Archie.
- Talk Balk · 0.5 pages
Ethel didn't spread a piece of gossip because she didn't know it was a secret.
- Lucky Dog · 5 pages
Hot Dog finds Jughead's good luck charm.
- The Master Touch · 1 pages
Jughead bets Archie he can get his hands on one of the cakes from the girls' cooking contest.
- Living Dangerously · 1 pages
Jughead challenges Moose to a fight.
- That Old Bag · 5 pages
Archie absent-mindedly leaves behind the package he is carrying.
- Scratch Catch · 1 pages
Jughead warns Reggie to stay away from Hot Dog.
- News Blues · 1 pages
Archie's good news make Mr. Weatherbee wonder what the bad news is.
- Group Whoop · 5 pages
Dilton and Moose are roadies for The Archies and have a suggestion on what they can do different but they're ignored by the band.
- Rope-A-Dope! · 5 pages
Archie tries to do fancy tricks on the rope swing at the swimming hole like Reggie.
- Two for One · 5 pages
Archie decides to buy the same engraved charm for both Betty and Veronica, but the salesman gets them mixed up.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Jughead and Archie discuss a water shortage.
- Leave the Driving to Us · 5 pages
Jughead invents the car.
- Traveling On · 6 pages
Archie thinks it's time to move on to another location.
- The Name of the Game · 5 pages
Betty and Veronica invent the concept of names. Then the boys try to invent a sport.
- The Umpire Strikes Back · 6 pages
Space aliens visit the cave teens.
- Ruffin' It! · 1 pages
The gang encounter wild animals, but Veronica's cooking is worse.
- Weight Loss Blues · 5 pages
Archie convinces Mr. Weatherbee that his gym membership is a waste of money, that Archie can help him exercise for free.
- Pier Group · 6 pages
A competing band sabotages the Archies' instruments so that they blow an audition, but Veronica comes up with a plan to redeem themselves.
- Animal Intelligence! · 5 pages
Reggie bets Jughead he can't teach Hot Dog a trick.
- Watch Botch · 0.5 pages
Jughead creates a new watch.
- Buck Pluck · 0.5 pages
Leroy creates a mud burger for Jughead.
- M.V.S. · 5 pages
Archie's new method of abbreviating every note causes problems when he can't remember what M.V.S. stands for on the calendar.
- The Hang-Up! · 5 pages
Ethel has a new job working for a summer theater. Jughead thinks Ethel has given up on chasing him.
- News Blues · 1 pages
Jughead was having a great day until he talked to Dilton.
- Date Night Plight! · 6 pages
Jughead's parents go out for a date night.
Characters
Reprinted in
World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2010), Jughead and Archie Double Digest (2014), Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2011), Archie 1000 Page Comics Jam (2015)