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Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine#20

Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine #20

Jan 1979 · Archie · 0.75 USD
“The Kiss-Off”

In "The Kiss-Off," a 1979 Laugh Comics Digest Magazine standout, a mischievous leprechaun wrongly accuses Drews of stealing Finn MacCool’s legendary treasure, unleashing giant robots in a wild, slapstick showdown. With art by Dick Ayers and Joe Simon, and inks by Paul Reinman and Joe Simon, the issue delivers classic Archie-style chaos as Tommy Troy transforms into The Fly to protect Drews, leading to a clever twist involving a ghostly Finn MacCool and a trash can with a surprising secret. Cover by Joe Simon.

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writer, artist, inker Joe Simon · artist Dick Ayers · inker Paul Reinman · letterer Howard Ferguson

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writer, artist, inker Joe Simon
artist Dick Ayers

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A sharpie named Drews is dogged by "not a midget", but a real leprechaun who thinks Drews stoles the treasure horde of Finn MacCool from Ireland! The leprechaun sics giant robots on Drews. Tommy Troy becomes The Fly, hides Drews in a cave, smashes robots, and stuffs the leprechaun in a trash can. Drews is visited by the ghost of Finn MacCool and confesses he stole the treasure and sank it off-shore. The Fly posed as Finn. The leprechaun thanks him for this kind deeds and vanishes.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).