The Riverdale Book Review

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