She's Josie
#3
(October 1963)
Archie,
1963 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard Goldwater
[no title indexed]
Josie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hope they don't recognize me in this disguise!
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Re-colored version of the splash page from part 4 of the issue's main story.
Sweater Girls Chapter I
Josie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink; un-named cop
- Synopsis
- Melody buys a sweater that, unknown to her, has real diamonds sewn into it as part of a smuggling operation. The smugglers follow the girls up to Alex's beach house to steal the sweater back.
- Reprints
-
in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #7 (July 2011) - in Archie's Big Book (Archie, 2017 series) #1 - Magic, Music & Mischief (August 2017)
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Indexer Notes
Script identifiable as Doyle by his style and DeCarlo's statement that Doyle did "all the writing" for early Josie comics.
Bad Sort Chapter II
Josie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink
- Synopsis
- The Boss sends his incompetent underling, Waldo, over to the Cabot beach house to steal back the diamond-covered sweater.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #7 (July 2011)
- in Archie's Big Book (Archie, 2017 series) #1 - Magic, Music & Mischief (August 2017)
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Native Nuisance Chapter III
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink
- Synopsis
- Alex comes up with a plan to lure the smugglers out into the open and capture them at the annual Beach Comber's Ball.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #7 (July 2011)
- in Archie's Big Book (Archie, 2017 series) #1 - Magic, Music & Mischief (August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
The manifesto Alex recites ("Breathes there a man with soul so dead who hasn't heard of Alexander Cabot III?") is a mangled version of a passage from Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel."
Sweet Talk!
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
- Reprints
- in Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1985 series) #33 (November 1988)
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #67 (July 2002)
-
Force Feed Chapter IV
Josie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink; Ernie Watiko
- Synopsis
- The smugglers see Pepper wearing the diamonds in her hair and force her to give them up.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #7 (July 2011)
- in Archie's Big Book (Archie, 2017 series) #1 - Magic, Music & Mischief (August 2017)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["I hope they don't recognize me in this disguise!"]
Josie -
1.
Sweater Girls Chapter I
Josie -
2.
Bad Sort Chapter II
Josie -
3.
Native Nuisance Chapter III
Josie -
4.
Brian Hyland, the Bashful Blond
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5.
Sweet Talk!
Li'l Jinx -
6.
Force Feed Chapter IV
Josie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jaime Weinman
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