(August 1959)
Archie,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (managing editor)
Issue Notes
Starting with this issue, this title is published monthly. It would remain a monthly until the early '80s.
School Daze
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Miss Grundy; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- With the end of term impending, Betty and Veronica go around the school browbeating the other students into not thinking it's a good thing as a favor to Miss Grundy.
- Reprints
-
in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #74 (October 1985)
-
Elvis Presley
Betty Presents the Star of the Month / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- Short biography of singer Elvis Presley.
A Pat Hand
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Veronica thinks Reggie is double-jointed.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #81 (June 1996)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #253 (April 2017)
-
Subject to Failing
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- The good news is that Veronica didn't fail Algebra.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #81 (June 1996)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #253 (April 2017)
-
Sheep Skinned
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen; humor
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Jughead and the other boys accuse the girls of being "sheep" because they always start wearing the latest fashions, whether or not the boys find those new fashions appealing.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #15 (October 1985)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #20 (August 1990)
- in Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (IDW, 2010 series) #1 (May 2010)
- in Best of Archie Comics Betty and Veronica (Archie, 2014 series) #2 (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
This story incorporates many fashion trends of the late '50s. Betty and Veronica begin the story wearing a combination of short pleated skirts and thick stockings, which were advertised in magazines of the period as a style for college girls. Bermuda shorts and Italian suits for men are among other styles referred to.
Designing Woman
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
- Synopsis
- When Betty shows off the dress she made herself, and it turns out to be a duplicate of the dress Veronica just bought from Paris, Veronica decides to make sure that Betty never wears that dress.
- Reprints
Third-Class Male
Jughead / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Jughead gets a little revenge for having to stand in a postal line behind two gossiping women.
All Cracked Up
Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Inks
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Shrimpy; Jenkins
- Synopsis
- Shrimpy has a unique way to clean up spills.
Time Out
Shrimpy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Inks
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards [as Joe Harold]
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Jenkins
- Synopsis
- Jenkins has an appointment to keep.
One Big Pane
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica attempt to convince Archie that an empty window frame actually contains a pane of glass.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #61 (November 1985)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Doesn't the last day of school make you feel sort of sad?"]
Betty and Veronica -
1.
School Daze
Betty and Veronica -
2.
Elvis Presley
Betty Presents the Star of the Month -
3.
A Pat Hand
Betty and Veronica -
4.
Subject to Failing
Betty and Veronica -
5.
Sheep Skinned
Betty and Veronica -
6.
Designing Woman
Betty and Veronica -
7.
Third-Class Male
Jughead -
8.
All Cracked Up
Shrimpy -
9.
Time Out
Shrimpy -
10.
One Big Pane
Betty and Veronica
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