She's Josie
#2
(August 1963)
Archie,
1963 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
Footlight Follies
Josie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Sock; George Fury; Daisy Divine
- Synopsis
- A handsome drama instructor comes to Josie's high school to direct the school play. All the girls sign up, but the boys aren't interested in being in a musical -- until they get a look at the director's assistant.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Part one of a four-part story.
Script identifiable as Frank Doyle by his style and DeCarlo's statement that Doyle did "all the writing" for the early Josie comics.
The Bright Side
Josie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Sock; George Fury; Daisy Divine
- Synopsis
- The girls and the boys all agree to be in the play, but their ineptitude drives George and Daisy up the wall.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Part two of a four-part story.
Show Biz Blues
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Sock; George Fury; Daisy Divine; Mr. Tuttle
- Synopsis
- The rehearsals for the play get worse and worse, until George is convinced that it will destroy his career. Mr. Tuttle reassures him that "you can always change your name and go into another line of work."
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Part three of a four-part story.
Scents-ible
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx
- Reprints
-
in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #25 (June 1983) - in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #236 (December 2013)
-
It's Curtain Time
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Sock; George Fury; Daisy Divine; Josie's dad; Josie's mom
- Synopsis
- Convinced that the play is a disaster, George tries to run away on opening night, but Josie, Pepper and Sock force him to wait backstage.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Conclusion of a four-part story.
One of the few times we ever see Josie's mother (though she doesn't speak).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Why, they act like a bunch of high school kids!"]
Josie -
1.
Footlight Follies
Josie -
2.
The Bright Side
Josie -
3.
Show Biz Blues
Josie -
4.
Gene Pitney, Man of Music
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5.
Scents-ible
Li'l Jinx -
6.
It's Curtain Time
Josie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Merlin Haas
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jaime Weinman
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