(April 1954)
Archie,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1954-02-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Harry Shorten
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 8, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, January-June, 1954.
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey Betty! Here's a problem on the law of gravity! Would you like to know why the apple fell for Newton?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Later redrawn for the cover of Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #63
Gay Blades
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 4 pages
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty conspires with a reluctant Jughead to break Archie and Veronica up at the ice skating pond.
Hunger Pains
Suzie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Suzie; unidentified hobo
- Synopsis
- Suzie trades one-liners with a hobo looking for a handout.
- Reprints
-
in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #256 (November 2017)
-
- Keywords
- hobo
Indexer Notes
The shop window in the first panel says "Samm's Hobby Shop". Several of the Suzie heads may be paste-ups of Dan DeCarlo's work.
The Apple Chump-Ling
Veronica / comic story / 3 pages
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Archie swipes some apples from Jughead to give to Veronica so she can pass her Home Economics baking class.
Packed Solid
Wilbur / comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Wilbur; Red; The Principal; Miss Gargle
- Synopsis
- The Principal conducts locker inspections and doesn't like what he finds.
Insufferable Pals
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 3 pages
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Dink Travis
- Synopsis
- Veronica breaks a date with Archie to go out with another boy. Betty at first refuses to be Archie's second choice, but then decides to date him and take him to the same place Veronica is with the other boy.
Vote Goat
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Veronica wins a student vote for best dressed coed.
Tomato Surprise
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 3 pages
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- When Jughead hears Betty and Veronica are buying fresh tomatoes for tomato sauce, he volunteers to make his family's special recipe sauce for them.
A Short Sweet Story
Katy Keene / comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Katy Keene; Sis
- Synopsis
- Katy is unable to be home in time to make dinner for Sis, so she allows her younger sibling to make a sandwich on her own.
Wrong Guest
Betty / comic story / 2 pages
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty promises Jughead a steak dinner if he can deliver Archie to the same dinner.
- Reprints
- 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 Archie Milestones Jumbo Comics Digest (Archie, 2019 series) #7 (March 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from B&V Friends Double Digest #237.
Ski Sick
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle ?
- Pencils
- Harry Lucey (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Lucey (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Terry Szenics
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do you think Archie and Reggie are waiting for us at the top, Ronnie?
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- When the boys spurn the girls' request to show them how to ski, the girls decide to go skiing anyway. Only they go skiing down the expert slope, being filmed by a newsreel camera Reggie has set up to film them.
- Reprints
- 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 Best of Archie Comics Betty and Veronica (Archie, 2014 series) #2 (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Harry Lucey's signature is in the bottom right of the last story panel.
Please Be Seated
Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge tries to get Veronica to sit in the chair correctly while she talks to Archie over the phone.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hey Betty! Here's a problem on the law of gravity! Would you like to know why the apple fell for Newton?"]
Betty and Veronica -
1.
Gay Blades
Betty and Veronica -
2.
Hunger Pains
Suzie -
3.
The Apple Chump-Ling
Veronica -
4.
Packed Solid
Wilbur -
5.
Insufferable Pals
Betty and Veronica -
6.
Vote Goat
Betty and Veronica -
7.
Tomato Surprise
Betty and Veronica -
8.
A Short Sweet Story
Katy Keene -
9.
Wrong Guest
Betty -
10.
Stuff About Stars
-
11.
Ski Sick
Betty and Veronica -
12.
Please Be Seated
Veronica -
13.
Feet First
Betty and Veronica -
14.
No Help Wanted
Betty and Veronica
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- Igor Dybzinski
- Del Gruber
- Steve Jenner
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
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