Archies’ Cheer

Selected story titles from the 192-page full-color trade paperback collection Archie Christmas Classics:

Slide Guide
Snow Mistake
Fire Bugged
Come Onna My House
Shocking Stocking
Not Even a Moose
Those Christmas Blues
A Head Start
Generous to a Fault
Code Three
Gift Collection
Do No Evil
More Pull Than Talent
Go For Broke
Boxed In
R is for Rooked
Black Book Bonanza
A Christmas Tale
Prize Surprise
Treed
It’s Not the Gift
Ode to Santa
Temptation
Shopper Comes a Cropper
The Greatest Gift (Parts 1 and 2)
Tree Spree
Spirit Sprite
Tree Travail
And the text story Christmas Jeer.

The ‘60s-vintage Ode to Santa features The Archies—in this case, just a trio of Archie on guitar, Reggie on drums and Jughead on keyboards—upsetting the establishment with their modern take on Christmas carols. “They grab every opportunity to clamp down on us younger generation cats!,” Archie complains.
Sample lyric:
Rock it, Santa, Shake it loose
While we stuff our Christmas goose
Bring those goodies, that’s your bag
As we sing the reindeer rag.

Hard to know what constitutes an Archie Christmas Classic—I could reel off dozens of stories which didn’t make the cut here—but Ode to Santa qualifies like crazy.