Dates
- Cover date
- September 2008
- On sale
- August 4, 2008
- Pages
- 196
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #142 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition$3.69 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07189646952342 · shared with another edition
Source ↗ - Direct edition$3.69 cover
Direct Edition
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 76281646952414211
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition4.39 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 4.39 CAD.
Barcode 07189646952342 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- The Matchmakers Part 4 · 23 pages
- ‘Til Debt Do Us Part · 6 pages
Jughead owes money to everyone but when he becomes indebted to Trula Twyst he makes sure he pays her back.
- Twin Din · 0.5 pages
Jughead's mom sends Hot Dog to wake Jughead, but the dog goes to sleep instead.
- Wag Gag · 0.5 pages
- Loser Takes All · 5 pages
Veronica obsessively spends the afternoon searching for some game she can beat Betty at.
- Pay Scale · 6 pages
Jughead's prowess with a frisbee helps him subdue an armed robber.
- Tennis Menace · 5 pages
- Boss Toss · 1 pages
- Prize Size · 1 pages
Archie is holding a can of special soil formula, and asks Dilton if he thinks it will help him grow things. Dilton says he doesn't THINK - he KNOWS. Jughead, drooling, points out what he thinks are Dilton's watermelons. Archie, looking at one, says that the watermelons don't look unusual to him. Dilton says who said they were watermelons. In the last panel he adds that those are his cucumbers.
- Water Boy · 6 pages
Jughead is constantly falling into Veronica's pool with all his clothes on, but when he tries to dive into the pool on purpose, he can't bring himself to do it.
- Nature Boy · 6 pages
Jughead asks Archie what part of nature appeals to him the most.
- Kook-Out! · 6 pages
- Pest Control · 5 pages
The girls aren't happy with Jughead's antics on a stream, but change their mind when he takes care of an obnoxious boater.
- The Comeback · 6 pages
When Pop Tate plans to close down the Chok'lit Shoppe due to lack of funds, Mr. Lodge arranges for a Hollywood movie crew to pay Pop to film a scene there.
- Drive Jive · 1 pages
- A Wheel Pain · Jughead & Friends · 6 pages
- Is This Drip Necessary? · 6 pages
- The Hero · 6 pages
Archie and Reggie play a trick on Jughead that could have been dangerous, and the girls point out that Juggie acted bravely and shouldn't be mocked.
- Automation Vacation · 6 pages
Betty, Archie and Jughead visit a beach where the rules are enforced by a very aggressive robot.
- Crown Town · 12 pages
- Reserved for V.I.P. · 1 pages
- Work Shirk · 1 pages
Archie and Reggie complain that Jughead relies on them too much.
- Winner Takes Almost All · 6 pages
Jughead enters Hot Dog into a frisbee catching contest.
- Beach Bummed · 5 pages
Jughead is embarrassed by his skinny body while at the beach.
- The Friendship Almost Sank · 6 pages
Archie is angry when Jughead breaks his new camera lens and it takes some time for the two to reconcile.
- Collector's Dream · 5 pages
Jughead gives Souphead some pointers on comic book collecting and speculating.
- The Long and the Short · 5 pages
Jughead gets on his friends' nerves by correcting their vocabulary to smaller synonymous words or phrases.
- Play Toy · 5 pages
The only thing that makes Jellybean laugh is a picture of Reggie.
- That Sinking Feeling · 6 pages
Jughead goes on a canoe breaking frenzy.
Reprinted in
Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2011), Archie 1000 Page Comics Jubilee (2019)