Betty's Diary
#17
[Regular Edition]
(June 1988)
Archie,
1986 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 8 times a year in Feb., April, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct. and Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Barcode
- 076956145065 06
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[Holding Hands In Public]
Betty's Diary / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Ethel Muggs; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Archie arm-wrestles Betty for the check after an evening at Pop's.
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[no title indexed]
Archie / public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Health education
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Chuck Clayton; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee gives the class, and the readers, some information on AIDS awareness.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
In Search of Change
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty spends more than she thought and only has a dollar to get home on the bus. But getting change proves to be more involved than she imagined.
- Reprints
Betty's Boyfriends
Dilton's Puzzle Pals / activity / 1 page
- Script
- Rod Ollerenshaw
- Pencils
- Rod Ollerenshaw
- Inks
- Rod Ollerenshaw
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Rod Ollerenshaw
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Letter coloring code puzzle with a boy's names theme.
- Reprints
Fans' Fashions for Archie, Betty and Veronica
Betty and Veronica / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Stan Goldberg (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- No story; Betty, Archie and Veronica model fashion designs sent in by readers.
With Friends Like These
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Kathleen Webb
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- After being critiqued one time too many by Veronica, Betty begins to wonder why she is friends with the girl.
- Reprints
Stress Struck
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Ethel Muggs; Archie Andrews; Midge Klump; Alice Cooper; Hal Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty is concerned with the stress in the lives of her friends and it's giving her stress.
- Reprints
-
in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #108 (July 1993) - in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #137 (December 2005)
- in B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 2011 series) #228 (October 2012), #284 (November 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Inker credit changed based on the credits printed in B&V Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #228.
The Night of Fright
Sabrina / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Aunt Zelda
- Synopsis
- Sabrina and her Aunts take a pleasant evening walk on an eerie Scottish moor.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #121 [Newsstand] (June 1993)
-
Telling It like It Is
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Polly Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty begins to wonder if all her hard work at school is worth it. Then Polly visits from San Francisco and sets her straight.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Story & Game Digest Magazine (Archie, 1986 series) #28 (September 1993) [with Betty's Diary logo]
- in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #38 (February 1999)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #132 (May 2005)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Digest (Archie, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #211 (May 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
The reprint in Betty and Veronica Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #211, the writing is credited to Kathleen Webb.
[no title indexed]
Sincerely Yours / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- ? [as Betty]
- Pencils
- Bob Bolling
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One of our readers
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- "Betty" presents advice sent in by readers for a problem printed in a previous issue.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Holding Hands In Public]
Betty's Diary -
1.
["Health education"]
Archie -
2.
In Search of Change
Betty -
3.
["Discount 32"]
-
4.
["Double your fun"]
-
5.
The Search for the Fruitasaurus!
Sunkist; Archie -
6.
Betty's Boyfriends
Dilton's Puzzle Pals -
7.
Fans' Fashions for Archie, Betty and Veronica
Betty and Veronica -
8.
["Subscribe and save"]
-
9.
With Friends Like These
Betty -
10.
["Step right up!"]
-
11.
["See America's #1 model"]
-
12.
Stress Struck
Betty -
13.
["Hang out with us!"]
-
14.
The Night of Fright
Sabrina -
15.
["Fans!"]
-
16.
Telling It like It Is
Betty -
17.
["One of our readers"]
Sincerely Yours
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Igor Dybzinski
- Merlin Haas
- Thomas Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Jim Van Dore
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