Betty and Me #47

(February 1973)

Grin and Bear It (Table of Contents: 1)

Betty And Me / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Dick Malmgren

Pencils:

Stan Goldberg

Inks:

Jon D'Agostino

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Bill Yoshida

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Midge Klump; Ethel Muggs; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge; Alice Cooper

Synopsis:

To reward Betty for helping him with his homework, Archie buys her a large teddy bear. But getting it her proves to be a threat to both his physical and psychological well-being.

Reprints:

• in Jughead with Archie Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #67 [Newsstand] (March 1985) [with Archie logo]
• in Betty and Veronica Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1987 series) #18 (April 1990)

Prime Rhyme Time (Table of Contents: 2)

Betty And Me / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Frank Doyle

Pencils:

Stan Goldberg

Inks:

Jon D'Agostino

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Bill Yoshida

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Sally Sneeke

Synopsis:

Betty's rival in a poetry contest steals her entry and tries to enter it under her own name.

A Helping Hand (Table of Contents: 3)

Betty And Me / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Stan Goldberg

Inks:

?

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Bill Yoshida

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper

Synopsis:

Betty has Archie over to her house, but her father keeps interrupting their time together to ask Archie to help move furniture.

Reprints:

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #71 (April 1985)
• in Betty and Veronica Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1987 series) #18 (April 1990)

Getting a Head (Table of Contents: 4)

Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Joe Edwards

Pencils:

Joe Edwards

Inks:

Joe Edwards

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Joe Edwards

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse

Synopsis:

Charley laments his lack of school achievement.

Pedal Patter (Table of Contents: 5)

Betty And Me / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

George Gladir

Pencils:

Dan DeCarlo

Inks:

Rudy Lapick

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Bill Yoshida

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews

Synopsis:

Betty and Archie go cycling, but Betty has a hard time keeping Archie's eyes off of other girls.

Reprints:

• in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #71 (April 1985)
• in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #55 (June 1992)
• in Betty and Veronica Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1987 series) #247 (November 2016)

Indexer Notes

Given Betty's odd hairstyle, for her, and occasionally odd behavior in this story, it may have originally been a Veronica story, with Veronica redrawn to be Betty.

Fob Job (Table of Contents: 6)

Betty And Me / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

George Gladir

Pencils:

Dan DeCarlo

Inks:

Jon D'Agostino

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Bill Yoshida

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle

Synopsis:

Betty gets a job with a local record producer and is suddenly supremely popular with the local male musicians, a situation Veronica intends to remedy.

Reprints:

• in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #32 (March 1985)

["What a Terrible Problem"] (Table of Contents: 7)

Dear Betty / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Eda Edwards [as Betty]

Pencils:

Joe Edwards

Inks:

Joe Edwards

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Joe Edwards

Characters:

Betty Cooper

Synopsis:

"Betty" answers reader letters.

Rewards (Table of Contents: 8)

Betty And Me / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Frank Doyle

Pencils:

Dan DeCarlo

Inks:

Rudy Lapick

Colors:

Barry Grossman

Letters:

Bill Yoshida

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis:

Betty saves Archie from injury. He insists on rewarding her, but it isn't the reward she was hoping for.