Josie
#28
(August 1967)
Archie,
1965 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Seven times a year: February, April, June, August, September, October, December
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Editing
- Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Issue Notes
The stories in this issue signal another shift in tone for the comic, toward a more topical late '60s approach with more references to hippies and other far-out fads of the era.
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Josie / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why won't you join our fan club for the Monkees?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper
- Synopsis
- Josie has her room decorated with Herman's Hermits memorabilia, and now there's a new pop group sensation to get into.
Indexer Notes
Includes the credit "By Dan n' Dick," referring to creator Dan DeCarlo and editor Richard Goldwater.
Shoe, Shoe, Baby
Josie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Mr. Tuttle; Mr. Jones
- Synopsis
- Josie, Melody and Pepper all take up the new fad of walking around barefoot, shocking the hidebound Albert. Finally Mr. Tuttle orders them to cease this kind of exposure, so they go back to the more modest fashion of wearing shoes with miniskirts.
- Reprints
-
in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #15 (April 2012) - in Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (IDW, 2010 series) #4 (October 2012)
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Stolen Melody
Josie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II
- Synopsis
- Declaring that his money and power give him the ability to get anything he wants, Alex grabs Melody and tries to get her all to himself, but her beauty attracts other men from all around. So Alex pays the other boys to get away from Melody and brings her to his home, where Josie and Pepper try to save their friend from that cad's clutches.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #15 (April 2012)
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Indexer Notes
Dan DeCarlo makes a cameo as one of the boys chasing Melody, the third boy from the left at the top of page 4.
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Betty and Veronica Summer Fun / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Veronica! I think every boy on the beach is after us!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Bathing-suited Betty and Veronica promote "Betty and Veronica Summer Fun."
The Photographers
Josie / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexandra Cabot
- Synopsis
- Josie and Alexandra compete against each other in a photography contest, and Alexandra has the clear advantage because of her state-of-the-art thousand-dollar camera, while Josie only has an old-fashioned square box camera.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #15 (April 2012)
-
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Dear Josie / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Eda Edwards (credited as Josie)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards
- Inks
- Joe Edwards
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Edwards
- Characters
- Josie
- Synopsis
- Josie gives advice to readers.
Indexer Notes
The first appearance of this feature, which became a regular part of this title. Eda Edwards, wife of veteran Archie artist Joe Edwards, explained in Alter Ego magazine in January 2009 that she answered the reader mail in the voice of the characters for this and other features like "Dear Betty and Veronica." She wrote: "I became the Dear Abby of the Archie world, answering letters from kids all over the globe. I went through the tons of mail that was sent to us by Archie Comics and answered as many as the page permitted. Joe did the lettering." Letters from "Scared Silly," P.L., "A Walker," S.M.
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Josie Pin-Up / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Albert, everyone's staring at you
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Josie; Albert
- Synopsis
- Josie wishes Albert would dress in a less mod manner.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #15 (April 2012)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Why won't you join our fan club for the Monkees?"]
Josie -
1.
Shoe, Shoe, Baby
Josie -
2.
Stolen Melody
Josie -
3.
["Veronica! I think every boy on the beach is after us!"]
Betty and Veronica Summer Fun -
4.
The Photographers
Josie -
5.
[no title indexed]
Dear Josie -
6.
["Albert, everyone's staring at you"]
Josie Pin-Up
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Joey Sayer
- Jaime Weinman
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