Betty and Me
#187
[Direct]
(October 1990)
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.20 CAD; 0.75 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 8 times per year Jan., Mar., May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct.
- On-sale Date
- 1990-08-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Betty and Me / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This must be a very old science fiction movie!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Keywords
- science fiction
![Cover Thumbnail for Betty and Me (1965 series) #187 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/203/w100/203474.jpg?-8461559634788787046)
Chocolate Crunchville
General Mills; cocoa puffs / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Sonny the Cuckoo Bird; Kingy
- Synopsis
- Sonny the Cuckoo Bird tries to help Kingy by trying to decide which is better,the crunch of Cocoa Puffs or the taste of the chocolate puffs before the kingdom riots.
- Keywords
- chocolate; Cocoa Puffs
Nice Advice
Betty and Me / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Ethel Muggs; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Betty follows the five steps from Ethel's book "Fanning Love Flames" to try to win Archie over from Veronica.
- Reprints
-
in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #77 (October 1995) - in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #91 (October 2000)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #234 (August 2013)
- in World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2021 series) #15
-
Indexer Notes
Bottom of page 3 has advertisement for Veronica in New York #11 on sale August 7, 1990 and Archie 3000 #12 on sale August 21, 1990. Bottom of page 5 has advertisement for Jughead's Diner #4 on sale July 31, 1990, Jughead's Double Digest #5 on sale August 7, 1990, and Jughead's Time Police #3 on sale August 28, 1990.
3 Issues for $2.00
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Indexer Notes
save $1.00 off newsstand price or .75 each. Choose from 7 titles.
At Last, My Own Double Digest!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
Indexer Notes
Special starter subscription of Jughead's Double Digest, 4 issues for $6.00. Picture of Jughead's Double Digest November 1990 #5
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! Now you can have Nickelodeon anywhere.
- Keywords
- Nickelodeon; Pizza Hut; TCBY; Universal Studios Florida
Indexer Notes
Nickelodeon magazine, store and club
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Discount 32 page comic subscriptions!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
Indexer Notes
Promo for subscriptions to Archie comics. Eight issues for $5.00. Archie is dressed as a mail carrier.
[no title indexed]
Editor's Notebook / in-house column / 0.5 page
- Script
- Victor Gorelick
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Victor Gorelick; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Marking the 50th anniversary of Archie Comics.
- Keywords
- 50th Anniversary Archie Comics.
Indexer Notes
Interesting facts about early Archie comics. A 1943 illustration promoting the Archie Radio Show.
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty / letters page / 1 page
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
Indexer Notes
Letters from readers seeking advice from Betty. Jared R. (Tampa,FL); Tina L. (Brooklyn, NY); Lucie C. (New Orleans, LA)
The Ultimate Game Club
advertisement / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
- Keywords
- Atari Entertainment; Lynx; Nintendo; Sega; Sega Genesis
Indexer Notes
Ad for video game club. Ultimate Game Club, 1491 Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook, CT 06475
Optical Delusion
Betty and Me / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Rebecca Frump
- Synopsis
- Archie and Betty save a little girl from drowning, who turns out to be the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, Ronald Frump. They are invited to visit the Frump yacht, which is the largest privately owned ship in the world.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #77 (October 1995)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #91 (October 2000)
-
- Keywords
- swim team; yacht
Indexer Notes
At the end of both pages 1 and 5 are promos for Archie's R/C Racers on sale Sept. 11, 1990, Archie Comics, and Archie Digests
Archie Fan Club
advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Keywords
- Fan Club
Indexer Notes
promo for Archie Fan Club $3.00/membership kit.
Slumber Party. The last thing you'll want to do is sleep.
advertisement / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
- Keywords
- board game
Indexer Notes
Illustrated ad for Slumber Party board game for girls. No manufacturer listed.
A Date with Fate!
Betty and Me / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty and Archie decide they've been seeing a lot of each other so break a date to spend some time apart. They both end up at the local mall and keep running into each other. They run into each other so many times they decide to have lunch together.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- mall
Indexer Notes
Bottom of page 1: an advertisement for Explorers of the Unknown #3 on sale July 24, 1990; Bottom of page 3: an advertisement for Jughead's Pal Hot Dog! #5 on sale July 31, 1990; Bottom of page 5: an advertisement for Riverdale High #2 on sale Aug. 7, 1990.
Earn Great Prizes or Cash
advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Illustrated ad for selling various items for Sunshine Sales Club, 45 Warwick St., Springfield, MA 01102.
[Word Scramble]
activity / 1 page
- Script
- Rod Ollerenshaw (signed as RGO)
- Pencils
- Rod Ollerenshaw (signed as RGO)
- Inks
- Rod Ollerenshaw ?
- Colors
- Rod Ollerenshaw ?
- Letters
- Rod Ollerenshaw ?
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
Indexer Notes
Word scramble riddle activity
Sent in by Gale Solomon of E. Brunswick, NJ
Fine Feathered Fiend
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge; Sinbad the parrot
- Synopsis
- Jughead takes Betty's parrot Sinbad to Pop Tate's. Sinbad repeats revealing tidbits.
- Reprints
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #91 (October 2000), #234 (August 2015)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jam (Archie, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #295 (September 2021)
-
- Keywords
- I.D. Bracelet; parrot; South America
Indexer Notes
Bottom of page 1: advertisement for Laugh #24 on sale August 7, 1990; bottom of page 2: advertisement for Archie Giant Series Veronica's Summer Special #615 and Archie & Me #616 both on sale July 24, 1990; bottom of page 5: advertisement for The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #14 on sale July 24, 1990.
[Subscribe and Save $2.50]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
Save $2.50 on a 5 issue subscription for 5 consecutive issues. Eight comics digests to choose from.
Double Your Fun!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Indexer Notes
Save $3.50 on 6 issues of Archie or Betty and Veronica double digest.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Special Subscription Offer!
Indexer Notes
Three issues for $2.00 for 3 consecutive issues. Choice of 7 titles.
Makin' It with Olympic!
advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Olympic Sales Club, Inc. Dept. 90AC8, Enfield, CT 06082; 1-800-777-8907...Ask for Margaret
The Taste of Adventure (part 3)
Capri Sun; Archie and His Friends / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie and Betty find the undersea treasure of Capri Sun Fruit Drinks.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Ad in comic format for Capri Sun Fruit Drinks.
Chester Cheetah's Cool Rules
Cheetos / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Chester Cheetah
- Synopsis
- Chester uses a rocket to try to catch a Cheetos delivery van, but is stopped by a railroad cross guard arm.
- Keywords
- railroad; rocket; speed-of-light
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Ad in comic format for Cheetos snacks
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0.
["This must be a very old science fiction movie!"]
Betty and Me -
1.
Chocolate Crunchville
General Mills; cocoa puffs -
2.
Nice Advice
Betty and Me -
3.
3 Issues for $2.00
-
4.
At Last, My Own Double Digest!
-
5.
["Hey! Now you can have Nickelodeon anywhere."]
-
6.
["Discount 32 page comic subscriptions!"]
-
7.
[no title indexed]
Editor's Notebook -
8.
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty -
9.
The Ultimate Game Club
-
10.
Optical Delusion
Betty and Me -
11.
Archie Fan Club
-
12.
Slumber Party. The last thing you'll want to do is sleep.
-
13.
A Date with Fate!
Betty and Me -
14.
Earn Great Prizes or Cash
-
15.
[Word Scramble]
-
16.
Fine Feathered Fiend
Betty -
17.
[Subscribe and Save $2.50]
-
18.
Double Your Fun!
-
19.
["Special Subscription Offer!"]
-
20.
Makin' It with Olympic!
-
21.
The Taste of Adventure (part 3)
Capri Sun; Archie and His Friends -
22.
Chester Cheetah's Cool Rules
Cheetos
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Thomas Johnson
- Phu Le
- Cheryl Mc
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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