Laugh Comics / Laugh #173 (1965) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Samm Schwartz	Cousin Leroy; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
1	Accident Prone!	comic story	6		Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
3	Veronica's Ye´Ye´ Offbeat Fashions	illustration	1	pencils: Dan DeCarlo	Veronica Lodge
4	Memory Coarse	comic story	6	pencils: Samm Schwartz; inks: Samm Schwartz	Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump
6	Archie Annual	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Archie Andrews (cameo); Betty Cooper (cameo); Veronica Lodge (cameo); Jughead Jones (cameo); Reggie Mantle (cameo); Mr. Weatherbee (cameo); Miss Grundy (cameo)
8	Life with Archie	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.25		Archie Andrews (cameo)
9	Flying Pies	comic story	4.33	script: Joe Edwards; pencils: Joe Edwards; inks: Joe Edwards; letters: Joe Edwards	Li'l Jinx; Gigi; Greg
10	-	letters page	0.67	pencils: Joe Edwards; inks: Joe Edwards	Li'l Jinx (cameo)
13	-	letters page	1.5	letters: typeset
14	Archie Club	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset	Archie Andrews (cameo)
15	Doin' What's Natural	comic story	5	pencils: Dan DeCarlo	Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weathebee; Miss Grundy

Plus 4.75 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Archie Comics Digest #29	1978	On eBay ›
Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #2	1987	On eBay ›
Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine #23	1979	On eBay ›
World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #112	2021	On eBay ›
World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #118	2022	On eBay ›
Laugh #[nn] ISBN 9781645769057	2022	On eBay ›

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