Betty
#55
[Direct Edition]
(November 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 05511
- 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
- Betty, these "cool" clothes you got at the thrift shop are the same ones I donated in 1976!!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Alice Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty's latest haul from the Thrift Shop gives her mother a sense of deja vu.
- Reprints
in ![Cover Thumbnail for Betty (Archie, 1992 series) #55 [Direct Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/196/w200/196094.jpg?6825206434312331062)
![Cover Thumbnail for Betty (1992 series) #55 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1175/w100/1175720.jpg?2901587954672867939)
The Zine Machine, Part 5
Betty / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Midge Klump; Moose Mason; Mr. Weatherbee; Smithers the Butler; Chuck Clayton; Dilton Doiley; Miss Grundy
- Synopsis
- The gang's self-published 'zine is ready to publish, with Betty doing most of the work again.
- Reprints
-
in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #133 (December 2002), #133 (December 2002)
-
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Sara Algase
- Pencils
- Ellen Leonforte
- Inks
- Ellen Leonforte
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Ellen Leonforte; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My Boyfriend, David
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- "Betty" answers reader letters.
[no title indexed]
Fan Art / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Camille Thelin; Kory Clark; Sarah Bunch; Shayne Daidas; Luisa Murphy
- Inks
- Camille Thelin; Kory Clark; Sarah Bunch; Shayne Daidas; Luisa Murphy
- Colors
- Camille Thelin; Kory Clark; Sarah Bunch; Shayne Daidas; Luisa Murphy
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Fan depictions of Betty and her friends, submitted by readers, are reproduced.
Moonlight Mischief
Sabrina / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Sabrina Spellman; Harvey Kinkle
- Synopsis
- Harvey makes the mistake of invoking the ancient stereotype of witches in front of Sabrina.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #137 (May 2003)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #222 (May 2014), #283 (June 2020)
-
No Contest
Betty / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Alice Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty tries to prove to the editors of a newspaper contest that two people can have a five hundred dollar date for under a dollar.
- Reprints
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #271 (September 2016)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Spree (Archie, 2016 series) (2016)
-
Beach Banter
Betty / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Ethel Muggs; Cheryl Blossom
- Synopsis
- Ethel objects to Cheryl's magnetism at the beach.
- Reprints
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jam (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #244 (September 2015)
-
Nursery Tale
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Steve Moleback; Mr. Moleback
- Synopsis
- Betty is suddenly making up excuses to visit the local plant nursery and it's not because she's suddenly into flowers.
- Reprints
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Explosion (Archie, 2014 series) ([July] 2014)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #225 (September 2014), #285 (September 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in Betty and Veronica Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #225, writing is credited to George Gladir and inks are credited to Henry Scarpelli.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Betty, these "cool" clothes you got at the thrift shop are the same ones I donated in 1976!!"]
Betty -
1.
The Zine Machine, Part 5
Betty -
2.
["I'm Sure That"]
Editor's Notebook -
3.
["My Boyfriend, David"]
Dear Betty -
4.
[no title indexed]
Fan Art -
5.
Moonlight Mischief
Sabrina -
6.
No Contest
Betty -
7.
Beach Banter
Betty -
8.
Nursery Tale
Betty
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- Peter Croome
- Igor Dybzinski
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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