Pep #146

(May 1961)

Class Will Tell (Table of Contents: 1)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Doyle

Pencils

Dan DeCarlo

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Smithers; Moose Mason

Synopsis

Veronica and Betty try to top each other in pageantry. Archie, tired of their one-upmanship, comes up with an ultimate entrance of his own.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #57 (December 1982)

Keywords

Boy Scouts; chauffeur; invitation; red carpet; trumpets

Double Parked (Table of Contents: 2)

Mr. Lodge / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob White ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Colonel Parkhurst

Synopsis

Mr. Lodge doesn't like Archie and Veronica "parking" on his couch each night.

Help Unwanted (Table of Contents: 3)

Pop Tate / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Pop Tate; Jughead Jones

Synopsis

Jughead is working for Pop, but Pop doesn't think he's much help.

Keywords

broom; telephone

Matter Over Mind (Table of Contents: 4)

Archie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Vigoda ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews

Synopsis

Archie daydreams in class.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #57 (December 1982)
• in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #50 (January 1991)

Keywords

daydreams

The Mystery Package (Table of Contents: 5)

Katy Keene / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Woggon; Sharon Lee Turner (story idea)

Pencils

Bill Woggon

Inks

Bill Woggon

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

detective-mystery; fashion; teen

Characters

Katy Keene

Synopsis

Katy has a package for "K. Keene" delivered to her by mistake. When she goes to the police, they ask her to deliver the package in a tough neighborhood (shadowed by plainclothes detectives) to catch a suspected criminal.

Reprints

• in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #44 (January 1983)

Keywords

counterfeit money; detectives; undercover

Indexer Notes

Fashions, etc., by Sharon Lee Turner (Beckley, W. Va.), Becky Allen (Little Rock, Ark.), and Rosemary Robinson (Oak Grove, Ky.) Art appears to be layouts by Woggin with other artists doing the pencils and inks.

Take This Free Gift... (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Archie's Pals 'n' Gals / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Sur-Prizes! (Table of Contents: 7)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 4.33 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Edwards

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday; Merry Holliday

Synopsis

Li’l Jinx's father loses his wallet and Jinx puts it in a box of cereal for a "prize." Unfortunately, her father returns the cereal box to the store before Li’l Jinx can tell him and he has to buy all the boxes of cereal to find it.

Reprints

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #62 (October 1983)

Keywords

breakfast cereal; television; TV commercials; wallet

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Li'l Jinx Pen Pals / text article / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Edwards

Inks

Joe Edwards

Colors

?

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi girls and boys --

Characters

Li'l Jinx (cameo)

Indexer Notes

List of 40 persons (ages 7 to 17) desiring pen pals. In addition to the United States, countries include Trinidad, Pakistan, Canada, and Bermuda.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Archie Club News / letters page / 1.3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Winners of the "Why I like to Ride a Bike" contest are listed: Richard Pidgeon (Norfolk, Va.), Carmack Daugherty (Parsons, Tenn.), Sidney Hollander (Dorchester, Mass.), Donald Rumbaugh (Tucson, Ariz.), Reesa Lasky (Haddonfield, N.J.), Patricia Glinska (Buffalo, N.Y.), Carla Sue Cane (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), and Eva Norton (Hazelwood, Mo.) They each won a bicycle.
First prize of $5.00 to Ronnie Dumoulin (Rock Island, Ill.) for article on minerals. Second prize of $3.00 to Lynette Raymond (South Hadley Falls, Mass.) for article on barracudas.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Archie Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1960 (Table of Contents: 11)

statement of ownership / 0.2 page (report information)

Script

Louis H. Silberkleit (publisher)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1960. Average paid circulation for the previous 12 months was 269,504.

Sympathy Pains (Table of Contents: 12)

Archie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob White ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; teen

Characters

Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Big Moose

Synopsis

Archie pretends to have spells of vertigo in order to get sympathy from the girls. He overdoes it and the girls' boy friends seek revenge.

Reprints

• in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #21 (January 1994)

Keywords

broken leg; cross-dressing; disguise; hospital; sympathy