Betty
#45
[Direct Edition]
(January 1997)
Archie,
1992 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD; 1.65 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 762816467537 04511
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Betty / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito [as Espo] (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How's my hair look?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty finds out she's not a very good hair stylist after she cuts Archie's hair.
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Never Say Never
Betty Cooper, Super Sleuther / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Coach Kleats; Greta Gripper (villain); The River Rats (villains); Dilton Doiley; Alice Cooper; Caramel
- Synopsis
- After the Riverdale football team is burglarized for their equipment, Betty tries to track it down by going undercover on the Craigville Crunchettes, a local semi-pro women's football team.
- Reprints
-
in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #251 (November 2016)
-
- Keywords
- football
[no title indexed]
Fan Art / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer; Rachel Landis; Laura Jackson; Meira Rosenzweig
- Inks
- Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer; Rachel Landis; Laura Jackson; Meira Rosenzweig
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Drawings of Betty submitted by readers are reproduced.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look For My New TV Series
- Characters
- Sabrina Spellman
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Sabrina The Teenage Witch #1, and for Sabrina's Holiday Special #1-3, which are still available from the publisher.
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty / letters page / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've Been Robbed
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- "Betty" answers reader letters.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't Miss Out
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for the Archie Volleyball T-shirt offer.
On the Spot
Betty / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Miss Beazley
- Synopsis
- While flinging food at each other in the cafeteria, Jughead and Archie accidentally stain Betty's new blouse with mustard.
- Reprints
- in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #178 (December 2002)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Extravaganza (Archie, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #196 (November 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #196, inks are credited to Rudy Lapick, and no credits are listed for writer.
[no title indexed]
public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dig In and Help Jimmy Dean Support United Cerebral Palsy
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead extols the readers to buy Jimmy Dean frozen foods because a portion of the sales will go to United Cerebral Palsy Associates.
Indexer Notes
PSA co-sponsored by United Cerebral Palsy Associates and Jimmy Dean Foods.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Archie's Digest Offer
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Archie Andrews Where Are You Digest #109, Archie's Story & Game Digest #37, Betty's Digest #1, Veronica Digest #5, and Archie's Holiday Fun Digest #1.
[no title indexed]
Editor's Notebook / text article / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- First I Would Like
- Synopsis
- Editor Gorelick promotes Archie's Holiday Fun Digest #1, Jughead #89 and Cheryl Blossom #3.
Betty-Bye Time
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Alice Cooper; Hal Cooper; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Ethel Muggs
- Synopsis
- Betty stays up late to watch a Bratt Prunepit movie and pays for it by dozing off again and again in school the next day.
- Reprints
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #267 (December 2018)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["How's my hair look?"]
Betty -
1.
Never Say Never
Betty Cooper, Super Sleuther -
2.
[no title indexed]
Fan Art -
3.
["Look For My New TV Series"]
-
4.
["I've Been Robbed"]
Dear Betty -
5.
["Don't Miss Out"]
-
6.
On the Spot
Betty -
7.
["Dig In and Help Jimmy Dean Support United Cerebral Palsy"]
-
8.
["Archie's Digest Offer"]
-
9.
["First I Would Like"]
Editor's Notebook -
10.
Betty-Bye Time
Betty
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Igor Dybzinski
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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