Suzie Comics
#85
(February 1952)
Archie,
1945 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1951-12-19
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
An Archie Magazine Approved Reading
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater (editor); Harry Shorten (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
Suzie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Suzie, are you sure you've had experience at flipping flapjacks?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Suzie; restaurant manager; customer
- Synopsis
- Once again Suzie's latest job requires more physical dexterity than she's capable of.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- restaurant
in 
Throne For A Loss!
Suzie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have you heard about the big roller skating contest, Ferdie?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Ferdie; Angela; Gregory Van Dripp
- Synopsis
- Suzie wants Ferdie to babysit Angela so she can enter a roller skating competition with Gregory. Angela suggests that she and Ferdie go enter the competition on their own.
A Kick In The Plans
Suzie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What're you doing, Dad?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Suzie's father
- Synopsis
- Suzie's father is on vacation and determined not to do anything during that vacation. However, that means Suzie has to do all of the household chores.
[no title indexed]
Suzie Fun Page / activity / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How To Make A Doll Bed
- Synopsis
- How to make a doll bed out of a wicker basket, plus riddles.
Information Please
Suzie / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Suzie, what makes rain?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Angela
- Synopsis
- Angela peppers Suzie with questions about life.
White In The Night
Suzie / public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Suzie, it's a lovely night, let's go for a walk.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Ferdie
- Synopsis
- Ferdie learns the hard way why it's a good idea to wear white when walking at night.
Take It Easel
Ginger / comic story / 4.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh nuts! That's the third one this week!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Ginger Snapp; Mr. Snapp
- Synopsis
- Ginger convinces her father to take up painting as a hobby, with disastrous results.
Indexer Notes
Art previously thought to be Harry Sahle, but it matches Schwartz's other stories in the issue.
Out Of Sorts
Suzie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why certainly, Gladys, I'd be glad to help you...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Suzie's father
- Synopsis
- Suzie helps her friend sort strawberries over the phone.
[no title indexed]
Suzie's Movie Diary / text article / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Star Silenced By Too Much Screaming
- Characters
- Suzie
Indexer Notes
Illustration of Suzie writing in her diary added with this issue. Archie Comics added an illustrated heading to its Hollywood articles across titles around this time.
Nurse To You
Suzie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- See you later, Uncle Blunderbuss! I'm going to visit Suzie at the hospital!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Ferdie; Uncle Blunderbuss
- Synopsis
- After hearing another one of Uncle Blunderbuss's tall tales about his surgical operation on the Maharajah of Kalamazoo, Ferdie goes to visit Suzie at her new job as a nursing attendant at the local hospital. There, he falls asleep and dreams that he falls at the hospital and has Uncle Blunderbuss as a surgeon.
Indexer Notes
"Blunderbuss" is spelled with one 'S' in this story. Plot and portions of script adapted as the Jughead story "Operation Nightmare" in Archie's Pal Jughead Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #7.
A Miss In The Dark
Suzie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's sure dark in here!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Ferdie
- Synopsis
- Suzie and Ferdie take a Tunnel Of Love ride, but someone else ends up kissing Suzie.
[no title indexed]
Suzie Puzzle Page / activity / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Includes match your wits, peanut man activity, optical illusion, and name the state.
A Long Dog Tale
Katy Keene / comic story / 6.5 pages
- Script
- Bill Woggon (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Woggon (signed)
- Inks
- Hazel Marten; Kathryn Bill
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our story opens at the Randolph Van Ronson's 10,000 Acre Ranch in Santa Ynez Valley in California...
- Genre
- humor; fashion; teen
- Characters
- Katy Keene; Randy Van Ronson III; Sis
- Synopsis
- Katy thinks Randy is entertaining a beautiful French model.
Indexer Notes
Katy's costume and pose by Marjorie McMaster (Tyler, TX); smart argyle on dachshund by Lida Jancar (Arcadia, CA); cowboy outfits by Carole L. Grover (Fredonia, NY); hat designed by Betty Hazelett (Tampa 4, FL); Randy's outfit by Mary Persons (Roxbury 19, Boston, MA); lounging P.J.'s by Gail Henry (Rochester 11, NY); dog tail car by Carrol Brandon (Lennox, CA); lollypop dress and bracelet by Trudy Holz (Paterson, NJ).
[no title indexed]
Don't Let It Puzzle You! / activity / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Includes rebus, sudoku puzzle, and making animal shadows on wall.
Off Day
Suzie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Get that kid outta here!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Suzie; Suzie's father; Angela; Suzie's mother; Ferdie
- Synopsis
- Suzie's father's day off is anything but restful.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Suzie, are you sure you've had experience at flipping flapjacks?"]
Suzie -
1.
["The all-American newsstand!! Because all America is buying the Archie comic group!"]
-
2.
Throne For A Loss!
Suzie -
3.
A Kick In The Plans
Suzie -
4.
["How To Make A Doll Bed"]
Suzie Fun Page -
5.
["Love will find a way!"]
Betty and Veronica -
6.
Information Please
Suzie -
7.
White In The Night
Suzie -
8.
Take It Easel
Ginger -
9.
["Read Laugh 'cause the world reads Laugh with you!"]
-
10.
Out Of Sorts
Suzie -
11.
["Star Silenced By Too Much Screaming"]
Suzie's Movie Diary -
12.
Nurse To You
Suzie -
13.
A Miss In The Dark
Suzie -
14.
[no title indexed]
Suzie Puzzle Page -
15.
A Long Dog Tale
Katy Keene -
16.
["You kids be the judge!"]
Super Duck -
17.
[no title indexed]
Don't Let It Puzzle You! -
18.
["Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! That Wilbur is so funny, he kills me --- he's always getting into hot water!"]
Wilbur -
19.
Off Day
Suzie -
20.
[no title indexed]
Suzie Fun Page
This issue was modified by, among others
- Luke A.
- Igor Dybzinski
- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.