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Author Topic: Jughead in "Who's Zoo?" (Alternate Ending and SPOILERS!)  (Read 982 times)

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Offline Aquarius

Jughead in "Who's Zoo?" (Alternate Ending and SPOILERS!)
« on: June 09, 2008, 09:12:59 PM »
This is a review of a Jughead story called "Who's Zoo."  I first saw it reprinted in "Jughead With Archie No. 60", 1984.  I don't know what original issue it first appeared in.  I recently saw it reprinted in the current "Jughead Double Digest 140" with a slightly different ending (Yes, sometimes I do browse through modern Archie Digests in hopes of finding a good vintage story).
 
(Spoilers Ahead!)
 
In this story, Jughead starts off having a bad day.  He gets beaten up by Reggie in a school boxing match, gets a detention for not doing his homework, and then when he gets home, finds his nutty Uncle Herman visiting there.  Uncle Herman is an inventor who is working on a formula that he thinks will turn humans into beasts.  Uncle Herman tries to test his formula on Jughead and then, through a series of mishaps, Jughead runs away, and an escaped gorilla from the zoo gets in the house and Uncle Herman naturally thinks Jughead drank the formula and changed.  The gorilla starts roughing Uncle Herman up and the police arrive just in time to save him, but when he insists that the gorilla is his nephew, they call the "Happy Hour Sanitarium" to come get him.   

The End?

Well, in the first reprint I read in the 1984 "Jughead With Archie No. 60", the panel where the Sanitarium is being called is labled "The End" in the lower right corner.  Yet, on the next page, there were four extra panels to the story.  Jughead hears about the gorilla being taken to the zoo, thinks it's his Uncle Herman who changed, goes to feed him, and poor Uncle Herman is shown in a padded cell with a straight jacket, still insisting that the gorilla is his nephew. 

Fast forward to "Jughead Double Digest 140" of today and it has that same story, but the last four panels are missing.  So, the panel that has "The End" truly is the end this time. 

Obviously there's been some ongoing confusion about just where this story was supposed to end.  I've enclosed the last two pages from my 1984 Digest, so you can see for yourself.
 

What's the story with this story?

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