Betty and Veronica
#12
[Regular Edition]
(August 1988)
Archie,
1987 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 10 times a year in Feb., Mar., April, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Barcode
- 076956145058 08
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This game gives me an inferiority complex!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica just beat Betty in tennis.
- Keywords
- tennis
![Cover Thumbnail for Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1987 series) #12 [Regular Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/194/w200/194929.jpg?8505203456229236604)
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Fantasy Fun
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- The boys and the girls trade barbs over whose fantasizing is more pathetic.
A Critical Condition
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Harold Smith (credited as Hal Smith)
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo
- Inks
- Jim DeCarlo
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica review student-made short films (a la Siskel & Ebert).
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #121 [Newsstand] (June 1993) - in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #237 (February 2014)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics-Palooza (Archie, 2014 series) ([February] 2014)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #286 (January 2021)
-
Loser Takes All
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Veronica obsessively spends the afternoon searching for some game she can beat Betty at.
- Reprints
- in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #54 (October 1998), #96 (September 2003), #142 (September 2008)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jam (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #15 (October 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
On page 3, panel 1, Jughead is seen reading a copy of Pep Comics.
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty and Veronica / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo Jr. ?
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo Jr. ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Rod Ollerenshaw ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I Am Prettier
- Synopsis
- Advice is given to problems submitted by readers.
Up the Creek
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- While guiding their canoe down a river, Betty and Veronica encounter a young man fishing. Veronica immediately decides his company is preferable to Betty's and makes a play for him.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #108 (July 1993)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #173 (October 2009), #275 (September 2019)
-
- Keywords
- canoe
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["This game gives me an inferiority complex!"]
Betty and Veronica -
1.
Fantasy Fun
Betty and Veronica -
2.
Surprise Ending
Archie; Sunkist -
3.
A Critical Condition
Betty and Veronica -
4.
Loser Takes All
Betty and Veronica -
5.
Let's Do The Fruit Slush Mush
The Archies; Wyler's -
6.
["I Am Prettier"]
Dear Betty and Veronica -
7.
Up the Creek
Betty and Veronica -
8.
Health Education
Archie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Igor Dybzinski
- Merlin Haas
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
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