Life with Archie #42
In "Cold Cash!," Archie takes over Pop Tate’s Choklit Shop after the owner injures himself dancing—only for Reggie to sabotage the business by swapping the vanilla ice cream for instant potatoes. The resulting disaster sends customers fleeing, leaving Archie to face the consequences of a prank gone disastrously wrong. Written by Frank Doyle and illustrated by Bob White, with a cover by Bob White, this 1965 classic captures the humor and chaos of small-town mischief.
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When Pop Tate injures himself doing a new dance, Archie volunteers to keep the shop running. Reggie then replaces all the vanilla ice cream with instant potatoes. The taste is so bad that all the customers desert the Choklit Shop.
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