Author: Ted Mark
Publisher: Lancer 73-527
Year: 1966
Print: 1
Cover Price: $.60
Condition: Very Good 
Genre: Espionage
SKU 50116021

Operation Scramble! If you think Steve "The Man from O.R.G.Y." Victor gets into wildly improbable adventures and weirdly complicated espionage plots--you haven't seen anything yet... Meet Archimedes Jones! Is Archie a hero or an anti-hero? Being in his teens, and with plenty of square edges that haven't quite rubbed off yet, he isn't quite sure himself. But he has an IQ so high it can hardly be measured, and he has a talent even greater than Steve Victor's for getting into trouble! The furious and funny escapades start when he falls into a brew of science and alchemy that only a mad magician could have dreamed up...and they get more far-out as they go along. And, of course, there are girls...Ted Mark-type girls, but with several new twists! Inside Front Cover: A Rising Spy! Archie struggled to get his hands freed from the baby bottles and the garbage so he could grab the ropes to pull himself upwards again. The maneuver left him with stale olive oil dribbling down behind his left ear, a jagged Campbell's soup can wedged under one arm, a half-eaten cob of corn under the other, pizza crust crumbling down his shirt-front, and a beer bottle intimately caressing his groin. Feeling like a pop art exhibit, he got the dumbwaiter slowly moving upward again. As he reached the fourth floor, another door to the shaft was opened. A rather pretty brunette in an evening gown took one look and then spoke: "EEK!" she said. This is spying? This, thought Archie, is for the seagulls!