...Are "Jughead" and "Jughead Jones" digests of the same title, or different ones? If so, did ACP add the last name to distinguish them from each other, and what were the differences? Just wondering, thanks....

Two different titles.  Jughead Jones ran from '77 to '96-ish, the Jughead Digest ran from '89 until 2012.  The Jughead digest had more pages, but I don't recall anything differing as far as content goes. 

Quote from: steveinthecity on May 20, 2017, 05:44:47 PM
Two different titles.  Jughead Jones ran from '77 to '96-ish, the Jughead Digest ran from '89 until 2012.  The Jughead digest had more pages, but I don't recall anything differing as far as content goes.

Ah, thank you.  In other words, ACP was squeezing extra moolah for the same character, just with a slightly different title. Slick....

There have been no less than SIX different digest titles devoted to Jughead over the years, so his history of digest reprint titles can probably be the most confusing to sort out. Okay, really only FIVE if you don't count that one-shot CAPTAIN HERO Maybe the most easily confused digest titles are JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST (1974-2005) and the very-similarly-titled JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST (2014-now). For simplicity's sake I've omitted the words "comics" and "magazine" where they've appeared over the years in some digest titles, where they've been sometimes inconsistently applied. I've listed all the ACP digest titles here with the ones devoted to Jughead in bold:

title	1st issue	Last issue	#	notes
ARCHIE DIGEST	Aug   1973	Sep   2010	267	Replaced by WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST
LAUGH COMICS DIGEST	Aug   1974	Apr   2005	200	Replaced by TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST
JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST	Aug   1974	May   2005	200	Replaced by JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST
ARCHIE ANNUAL DIGEST	1975	Apr   1998	43	Continued from ARCHIE ANNUAL #26  (#s27-69)
MADHOUSE COMICS DIGEST	1976	Aug   1982	8
ARCHIE... ARCHIE ANDREWS, WHERE ARE YOU? DIGEST	Feb   1977	May   1998	114
JUGHEAD JONES COMICS DIGEST	Jun   1977	May   1996	100
JOKEBOOK COMICS DIGEST ANNUAL	Oct   1977	Oct   1983	13
LITTLE ARCHIE COMICS DIGEST	Oct   1977	May   1991	48	(Issues #1-15 are ANNUALs)
ARCHIE'S SUPER HERO SPECIAL COMICS DIGEST	1978	1979	2
BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST	Nov   1980	Oct   2010	208	Continues as B & V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #209; (Issues #1-4 are ANNUALs)
CAPTAIN HERO COMICS DIGEST	1981		1	(One-shot)
ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST	Jan   1982		now	266+ issues (2016)
ARCHIE'S ACTIVITY COMICS DIGEST	1985	Aug   1986	4	Replaced by ARCHIE'S STORY AND GAME DIGEST
ARCHIE'S STORY AND GAME DIGEST	Nov   1986	Jan   1998	39
BETTY AND VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST	Jun   1987		now	253+ issues (2016)
KATY KEENE COMICS DIGEST	1987	Jul   1990	10
THE NEW ARCHIES DIGEST	Oct   1987	May   1990	22
BETTY AND VERONICA ANNUAL DIGEST	Sep   1989	Jun   1997	16	Not to be confused with the identically-titled digest from 1980-83 (#1-4)
JUGHEAD DOUBLE DIGEST	Oct   1989	Feb   2014	200	Replaced by JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST
ARCHIE'S PALS 'n' GALS DOUBLE DIGEST	Nov   1992	Nov   2010	146	Replaced by ARCHIE AND FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST
VERONICA'S DIGEST	Nov   1992	Dec   1995	6
ARCHIE ALL CANADIAN DIGEST	Aug   1996	Aug   1996	1	(One-shot)
BETTY'S DIGEST	Nov   1996	Nov   1997	2
ARCHIE'S HOLIDAY FUN DIGEST	Feb   1997	Dec   2007	12
JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST	Jun   2005	Jul   2010	38	Replaced JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST
TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST	Jul   2005	Aug   2010	39	Replaced LAUGH COMICS DIGEST
WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST	Oct   2010		now	67+ issues (2016); Replaced ARCHIE DIGEST
ARCHIE AND FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST	Dec   2010	Jan   2014	33	Replaced ARCHIE'S PALS 'n' GALS; replaced by ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE
B & V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST	Jan   2011		now	253+ issues (2016); Continued from BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST #208
ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE DOUBLE DIGEST	Mar   2014		now	26+ issues (2016); Replaced ARCHIE AND FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST
JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST	Apr   2014		now	26+ issues (2016); Replaced JUGHEAD DOUBLE DIGEST

How about those nice round numbers that a lot of the digests ended their runs with? ACP used to like to celebrate anniversary issues by replacing an old digest title with an entirely new one!

For the longest time period of time there, Archie, B&V, and Jughead all had two simultaneously-ongoing digest titles. That's because one of them was a standard-sized Comics Digest, while the other was the Double Digest for each of the three.

Note, however, that there was a period of time -- six and half years, from Fall 1989 through Spring 1996 -- when JUGHEAD could claim the distinction of having three ongoing digest titles: Jughead With Archie Comics Digest, Jughead's Double Digest, AND The Jughead Jones Comics Digest Magazine.

Apart from the short runs of Veronica's (Passport) Digest and Betty's Digest, and excluding such titles as Little Archie Digest, The New Archies Digest, Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest, Archie & Friends Double Digest, which were less focused on ARCHIE as a character than, well ... everyone, even Archie only has Archie Double Digest, Archie's Funhouse Double Digest, and World of Archie Double Digest being published right now, the latter two of which are less-likely to be packed with exclusively-Archie stories. When those three Jughead digests were all being published at the same time, more than 90% of those stories reprinted ALL had Jughead in them.