I find purity and poetry in the simple names given to the feature stories and one-page gags in Archie Comics. When bundled as thick digests, the mass of titles can provide a unique uplifting sensation.
These are the punny, rhymey or otherwise distinctive titles found in World of Archie Double Digest #37 (April 2014):
- For Whom the Bowl Tolls (in which Mr. Weatherbee goes bowling)
- Trail’s End (the ever-popular Archie theme of snow shoveling)
- A Date With Suzy Stringbean
- Wheels of Fortune (a Life With Archie story in which our intrepid teen hero and his pal Jughead are tied up inside a car that is set rolling down a curvy dirt road towards Bottomless Lake.)
- Psychic to Me
- Open and Shut Case
- Bust Out
- Love Out
- Turn Out
- Loan Moan
- The Delicate Disaster
- Team Steam
- The Dating Game
- Spoil Sport
- Problem Players
- Chop Chop
- The Final Test
- Critics’ Choice
- Affection Connection
- Ringmaster
- Miss Beazley’s Gag Bag
- Mister Weatherbee in Hit Bit
- TV or Not TV
- Gig Gag
- Cool Collector
- Glee Spree
- On the Defensive
- Angel With a Pitchfork
- Rap Flap
and
- Doodling Around