Grade | VG |
Year | 1976 |
Publisher | Archie Publications |
This is a low grade item. It will be complete and readable, but will show significant wear. Allowed defects for this grade include: spine roll, a moderate amount of staining or water damage, writing or other marks on the cover, up to one inch spine splits or other tears, a cover or centerfold that is detached at one staple, discoloration due to oxidation, and a minor piece or pieces missing. An item could be assigned this grade due to either an accumulation of minor/moderate defects or one or two major defects.
Cover by Stan Goldberg & Rudy Lapick. Stories by Frank Doyle, Joe Edwards, Bob Montana and unknown. Art by Harry Lucey, Chic Stone, Joe Edwards, Bob Montana and Jon D'Agostino. Reggie tricks Archie into thinking that Miss Grundy is unfairly forcing him to take a test in "Test Case"! Plus: Li'l Jinx in the half-pager "Okay! Okay!" by Joe Edwards; two newspaper comic strips with color added as the half-pager "Archie's Gag Bag" by Bob Montana; the story of Tarbland, the king of the jungle, who has "a body that won't quit and a mind like a sack of wet noodles," in "Tarbland of the Grapes"; Archie thinks Mr. Lodge has been eaten by one of the carnivorous plants in his greenhouse in "Growing Pains"; and Archie uses an "instant car kit" to outfit Old Betsy with a sleek new body in "Cartastrophe"! 32 pages, full color.
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