- Script
- ? [as Archie Andrews]
- Pencils
- Bob Montana
- Inks
- Bob Montana
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's a great thrill for me to write you this personal letter, because I feel that I know a great many of you.
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Sam S.)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Archie! Going to the dance, tonight?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Mrs. Cooper; George Cooper
- Synopsis
- When Archie passes up Betty to talk to Veronica, Betty gets mad and writes him a poison pen letter.
- Reprints
Betty's father is named George in this story.
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You wanted to see me, Mr. Weatherbee!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Coach Kleats; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mrs. Lodge; Mr. Lodge [John Lodge]
- Synopsis
- When the gym falls apart Archie organizes a dance to raise money to build a new gym.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda
- Inks
- Bill Vigoda
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- May I borrow your car, Archiekins? I'm supposed to pick up my little cousin today and both our cars are busy--
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to fix a rattling noise after he loans his father's car to Veronica.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Frese
- Inks
- George Frese
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You? A job at the zoo?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Jughead's working at the zoo and accidentally lets a monkey loose.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Red Holmdale ?
- Inks
- Red Holmdale ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can you arrange the digits 1 through 9 in the empty squares shown above so that the combined numbers will add to exactly 15 in the six rows indicated by the arrows.
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Three activities, arrange the numbers, connect the dots, and turn lead into gold.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie, would you ask Pop Tate to add a little more soda water in here? It's too sweet.
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Pop loses his customers after banning Archie from the Chok'lit Shop for accidentally breaking too many glasses.
- Reprints
Earliest appearance of Pop Tate resembling his current character model. Previous appearances depicted Tate as a skinny, older man with gray hair and a mustache. Here, he is taller, heavyset, and bald. Bob Montana would use this model in Tate's earliest known newspaper strip appearance on May 2, 1950. Both models would be seen interchangeably in Archie stories as this model was phased in.
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let's go for a little ride, Betty! We can decide which movie we want to see tonight!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty can't go to the movies with Archie until she does some chores around the house, and Archie decides to help.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Montana (Archie stock art); ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
An illusion and a word building puzzle.
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hate to interrupt you, children with your homework -- but is the new laundromat open in town? -- I have two huge bundles to go on the back porch--
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Betty decide to wash and dry the clothes Archie's mom wanted taken to the laundromat.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Frese
- Inks
- George Frese
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That's what I said, Archie -- I'm baby-sitting at the Browns' tonight!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Mr. Brown; Mrs. Brown; Charles Augustus Brown; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Jughead is babysitting and he thinks the baby has swallowed a pin.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Veronica!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- When Veronica decides to hold a hard luck party for Friday the 13th, Archie experiences a run of bad luck, only for Veronica to find out that it's actually Thursday the 12th.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Archie! Want to go for a swim?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Mr. Cooper
- Synopsis
- It's winter so Archie decides to set up an indoor pool in the attic to swim in.
- Reprints
- Script
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Vigoda ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, Egghead! Want to see my new picture ring?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Archie keeps accidentally squirting Mr. Weatherbee with various liquids.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Frese
- Inks
- George Frese
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Coach -- do you mean to say our track team doesn't stand a chance in tomorrow's inter-high school half mile race?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- In need of a runner for the upcoming race, Coach Kleats sends scouts around Riverdale, one of whom finds Jughead running away from a baseball game where he broke a window. Once he discovers the reason for Jughead's speed, he places a receiver in Jughead's hat during the race and blackmails him into winning the race for Riverdale.
- Reprints
One of several similar stories from this era in which Jughead becomes Coach Kleats' unlikely savior in a given sport, including boxing (Archie Comics #40), baseball (Laugh Comics #35), and wrestling (Pep Comics #76).
- Script
- Ray Gill (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Hi, Archiekins!" Veronica called.
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie finds a wallet with a fifty dollar bill in it.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This museum is too spooky, Arch... what are we hanging around all this dead stuff for?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead go to the museum and Archie puts on a suit of armor.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, Archie, look! A new kid -- just moved in next door!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Fred F. Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Coach Kleats
- Synopsis
- After making fun of an overweight teen moving into the neighborhood, Archie is knocked unconscious by a lamp falling out of the moving truck and dreams of suddenly becoming overweight, helping him become more sensitive to making fun of others' appearances.
- Reprints
"Samm's Furniture Moving" logo on truck in splash page, a reference to artist Samm Schwartz.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Frese
- Inks
- George Frese
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jughead! I've been looking all over for you! Lend me five bucks!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mrs. Best; Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Sullivan; Mrs. Holley; Fifi; Mrs. Lee
- Synopsis
- Archie needs to earn five bucks to take Veronica out so he has Jughead line up jobs for him to do.
- Reprints
The Mrs. Jones in this story is not Jughead's mother.
- Script
- Ray Gill (signed)
- Pencils
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Inks
- Samm Schwartz (signed as Samm)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well girls, the Patch Hop is here again! As you know the rules are that a girl has to put a patch on the boy she wants to take her to the dance!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Dilbert Doiley [Dilton Doiley]; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- There's a patch hop on tonight and Archie wants to avoid being patched by anyone but Veronica.
- Reprints
Dilton is called Dilbert in this story. While a character named Dilbert had appeared in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #34, this story marks the first use of the "Doiley" surname. The Dilton Doiley character had already debuted in the Archie newspaper strip dated February 16, 1948, albeit with the surname spelled "Doily."
Archie reveals his birth month as December.