Betty
#54
[Direct Edition]
(October 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 05411
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Betty / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Alison Flood (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thank you, Hot Dog!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Hot Dog
- Synopsis
- Hot Dog races in circles, causing his leash to wrap Betty and Archie into a close embrace.
![Cover Thumbnail for Betty (Archie, 1992 series) #54 [Direct Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/196/w200/196093.jpg?-4304620757354158975)
The Zine Machine, Part 3
Betty / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Midge Klump; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty's relentless efforts have spurred the gang to improve their submissions to the 'zine they're all self-publishing. However, it's leaving Betty very, very alone.
- Reprints
-
in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #132 (October 2002)
-
Indexer Notes
Parts one and two were published in Betty (Archie, 1992 series) #53. The story continues in Betty (Archie, 1992 series) #55.
[no title indexed]
Fan Art / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sarah Beesan; Lauren Lacy; Diana Johnson; Carmen DeChief
- Inks
- Sarah Beesan; Lauren Lacy; Diana Johnson; Carmen DeChief
- Colors
- Sarah Beesan; Lauren Lacy; Diana Johnson; Carmen DeChief
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- No story; art of Betty submitted by readers is reproduced.
Black & White Does It
Betty / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rex W. Lindsey (signed)
- Inks
- Rex W. Lindsey (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Rex W. Lindsey ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- No story; Betty models fashion designs submitted by readers.
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Sara Algase
- Pencils
- Ellen Leonforte
- Inks
- Ellen Leonforte
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- typeset; Ellen Leonforte
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm Eleven Years Old
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- "Betty" answers reader letters.
All Wet
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty spends the day being dunked because she's working in the carnival dunk tank to earn extra money.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #177 (October 2002)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #284 (August 2020)
-
[no title indexed]
Editor's Notebook / text article / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Last Month I Promised
- Synopsis
- Editor Gorelick informs readers of the new Archie Comics internet website and all the features of interest the site houses.
Indexer Notes
The logo for this column was redrawn, probably by Ellen Leonforte.
Fashion Passion
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Mike Pellowski
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Alice Cooper; Hal Cooper; Nancy Woods; Midge Klump
- Synopsis
- Betty stays up late trying to decide what outfit to wear on the first day of the new school term, then over-sleeps and has to throw on the first thing she can grab.
- Reprints
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #240 (October 2014)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #296 (October 2021)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Thank you, Hot Dog!"]
Betty -
1.
The Zine Machine, Part 3
Betty -
2.
[no title indexed]
Fan Art -
3.
Black & White Does It
Betty -
4.
["I'm Eleven Years Old"]
Dear Betty -
5.
All Wet
Betty -
6.
["Last Month I Promised"]
Editor's Notebook -
7.
Fashion Passion
Betty
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- Peter Croome
- Igor Dybzinski
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
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