Veronica #9 [Direct]
(July 1990)

Archie, 1989 Series
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Price
1.00 USD; 1.20 CAD; 0.75 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
7 times a year in Feb., April, June, July, Sept., Oct., and Dec.
On-sale Date
1990-05-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Archie Comic Publications Inc.
Brand
Archie Series
Editing
Dan Parent; Scott Fulop; Victor Gorelick (Managing Editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Jughead's Double Digest Magazine #4.
This issue has variants:

Veronica in Russia (Table of Contents)

Veronica / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Robert Fleming [as Veronica]
Pencils
Dan Parent (signed)
Inks
Dan Parent (signed)
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
?
Genre
teen
Characters
Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Mikhail Gorbachev; Raisa Gorbachev; Yuri; Nina
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Veronica in Russia (Table of Contents: 1)

Veronica / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Fleming
Pencils
Dan Parent
Inks
Henry Scarpelli
Colors
Barry Grossman
Letters
Bill Yoshida
Genre
teen
Characters
Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Mrs. Hermione Lodge; Yuri; Nina; Mikhail Gorbachev; Raisa Gorbachev
Synopsis
The setting of this story is shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Veronica accompanies her father on a trip to Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union. She spends time with her guides Yuri and his sister Nina, where she experiences the history of Russia and they all learn the meaning of freedom.
Keywords
Berlin Wall; Bolshoi Theater; Constantine Brancusi; Dracula; freedom; Iron Curtain; Ivan the Terrible; Kremlin; Lenin's Tomb; Leningrad; Lomonosov University; Lone Toc; Moscow; Nazis; Red Square; Romania; Soviet Union; St. Basil's Cathedral; Transylvania; Warsaw Poland; Winston Churchill

Indexer Notes

Story has four chapters.

Say No to Drugs (Table of Contents: 2)

Archie / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
advocacy
Characters
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Veronica's Mail Page / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Dan Parent ?
Pencils
? (logo illustration)
Inks
? (logo illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hello once again readers!

Indexer Notes

Letters from Goh Yong Tat (Malaysia); Shawn Jackson; Catherine Donas and Chloe Merrill; Lisa Gurller (Canada); Melissa Koller; Laaleen Sukhera (Pakistan)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Editor's Notebook / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Veronica in Russia
    Veronica
  2. 1. Veronica in Russia
    Veronica
  3. 2. Say No to Drugs
    Archie
  4. 3. ["Hello once again readers!"]
    Veronica's Mail Page
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Editor's Notebook
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Bill Devine
  • Merlin Haas
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Thomas Johnson
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