Josie
#38
(December 1968)
Archie,
1965 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Seven times a year: February, April, June, August, September, October and December
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
[no title indexed]
Josie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Clyde!!! Don't tell me you're finally getting your hair cut???
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Clyde Didit
Indexer Notes
The credit on the cover reads "By Dan n' Dick," referring to Dan DeCarlo (creator) and Richard Goldwater (editor)
Pursuit of Happiness
Josie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Clyde Didit; Alexandra Cabot; Count Drat
- Synopsis
- Josie is chased by Clyde Didit, the Crooning Casanova. Clyde, in turn, is chased by Alexandra Cabot, who hires the world-famous hypnotist and part time office boy Count Drat to zap Clyde into loving her.
Indexer Notes
Alexandra refers to the then-upcoming moon landing ("I could offer you the moon, but it'll be full of astronauts soon").
The Comedians
Josie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Pepper; Sock; Josie; Melody
- Synopsis
- After Sock accuses her of having no sense of humor, Pepper hits him in the face with a pie, leading to an all-out war of corny pranks.
Busy Signal
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Alexander Cabot III; Melody; Pepper
- Synopsis
- Alex takes Josie to Lover's Lane in his spectacular car, but his romantic advances are interrupted by the ringing of the many phones in the car.
[no title indexed]
Dear Josie / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Eda Edwards (credited as Josie)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- Characters
- Josie
- Synopsis
- Josie answers reader mail.
Indexer Notes
Letters from S.M., P.L., C.M.
Back Talk!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Li'l Jinx demands Greg take back what he said about her.
Trouble
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Dan DeCarlo
- Synopsis
- Melody thinks she's a "janx" (her word for "jinx") because all the boys have accidents when she's around. Josie disagrees until her old friend Dan DeCarlo also goes ga-ga over Melody.
Indexer Notes
Josie's friend is named after, and a caricature of, the comic's artist and creator.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Clyde!!! Don't tell me you're finally getting your hair cut???"]
Josie -
1.
Pursuit of Happiness
Josie -
2.
The Comedians
Josie -
3.
Busy Signal
Josie -
4.
[no title indexed]
Dear Josie -
5.
Back Talk!
Li'l Jinx -
6.
Trouble
Josie
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- Chris Boyko
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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