Archie Annual (1973) 25

Looking for that bargain, whatever it is? Today is your day. Today is National Garage Sale Day.

Today is the day you find out if that one man’s trash is another’s treasure. Hopefully your treasure. Found at a reasonable price.

Garage Sale Day is the brainchild of Daniel Rhodes of Alabama. The day was inaugurated in 2001 based on his observation of his neighbors hauling out potential treasure every weekend.

These clearing house sales have a rich history dating back over 100 years. In the 1890’s, these sales were known as rummage sales and a weekly part of the community. Rummage sales were usually sponsored by churches and other charitable organizations to generate money for the needy.

However, by the 1950’s and 1960’s America was still celebrating its ascendancy to super power on the global scene and the U.S. of A celebrated an age of excess. To make room for the new, out went the old and into someone else’s home.

Today, Americans continue the tradition of cleaning out to make room for new. And, there is a market as others swoop down on the old hoping to find a deal.

Archie and the gang are as American as the rummage sales of old and the garage sales of now. They reflect our society with the cover of Archie Annual issue 25. While there are no actual sales inside, there are 50 pages worth of clean cut fun and frolic beginning with…

Archie Annual (1973) 25

Ready…Set…GO! Archie dresses for the part, but makes everyone else crazy.

Next up is Li’l Jinx feeling Baseball Fever as her friend, Greg, explains his love of the sport.

Curtain Going Down is the last chapter story for the next five pages. In this story too much adlibbing brings down the curtain on the school play.

The following are all one-page gags:

Tip-Top Tape! gets Archie to school on time;

Claim to Fame! shows off Archie’s athleticism.

Fight Delight has Archie coming clean on how to defuse an argument.

Saw Corps! Puts Reggie out on a limb to entertain Archie.

and, Flee Spree! introduces the bear necessities of camping.

The book finishes with 1^st in Progress as Archie and crew become the first to start an arms race, and The Real Thing, which, as they say, isn’t always as real as it seems.

So, hit the road and see if you can find something you can’t live without. You may even run across the comic book at a good price.