Betty
#41
[Direct Edition]
(September 1996)
Archie,
1992 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD; 1.65 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 762816467537 04111
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Betty / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Betty, is your boyfriend in electronics? Computers?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; unidentified woman
- Synopsis
- Betty gets questioned about her boyfriend.
- Reprints
in ![Cover Thumbnail for Betty (Archie, 1992 series) #41 [Direct Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/194/w200/194908.jpg?7050516237169352811)
Silhouette Symphony
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Betty's shadow; Archie's shadow; Veronica Lodge; Cheryl Blossom; Cheryl's shadow
- Synopsis
- Archie's shadow tries to subliminally influence Archie into ditching Veronica and going back to Betty.
- Reprints
-
in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #123 (October 2001) - in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #262 (August 2018)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Romp (Archie, 2018 series) (2018)
-
[no title indexed]
Fan Art / letters page / 1 page
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Fan art of Betty sent in by readers is reproduced.
Indexer Notes
Fan art by Mark Fontecchio, Kelly McNamara, Caiti Erickson and Megan Long.
Home Improvement
Veronica / public service announcement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Betty Cooper; Della
- Synopsis
- Veronica convinces her father to install a wheelchair ramp to the mansion so a wheelchair-bound student can attend her party.
Indexer Notes
PSA co-sponsored by United Cerebral Palsy Associations.
Filing a Compliment
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Alice Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty finds that trying to write a complimentary letter to a big corporation isn't as easy as she imagined.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #122 (September 2001)
-
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Sara Algase (as Betty)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My Mom
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- "Betty" answers reader letters.
Rejection Dejection
Betty / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie consoles Betty after she gets another publisher rejection slip.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #125 (January 2002)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #223 (May 2012), #280 (June 2020)
-
Seize the Day
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Alice Cooper; Hal Cooper
- Synopsis
- Alice insists the family drive up to Mt. Everlast instead of laying around the house all day.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #122 (September 2001)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #144 (September 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Hal is watching a golf tournament featuring a golfer named Samm, a kidding reference to longtime Jughead artist Samm Schwartz.
Gym-Tastic
Betty / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rex Lindsey (signed)
- Inks
- Rex Lindsey (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Rex Lindsey (signed)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- No story; Betty is depicted in different gymnastics leotards performing various gymnastic routines.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #122 (September 2001)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #144 (September 2006), #263 (July 2018)
-
Service with a Smile
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Mister Bainbridge; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty agrees to work overtime at her job at Mall-Mart, forcing her to miss a date she had with Archie.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #125 (January 2002)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #237 (February 2014)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics-Palooza (Archie, 2014 series) ([February] 2014)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Betty, is your boyfriend in electronics? Computers?"]
Betty -
1.
Silhouette Symphony
Betty -
2.
[no title indexed]
Fan Art -
3.
Home Improvement
Veronica -
4.
Filing a Compliment
Betty -
5.
Archie's Big Book Back Issue Bonanza
-
6.
["My Mom"]
Dear Betty -
7.
Rejection Dejection
Betty -
8.
Announcing a Groovy New Edition
-
9.
["On April 7..."]
Editor's Notebook -
10.
Seize the Day
Betty -
11.
["Archie's Digest Offer"]
-
12.
["Have a great vacation"]
-
13.
Gym-Tastic
Betty -
14.
Service with a Smile
Betty
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- Peter Croome
- Igor Dybzinski
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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