Betty's Diary
#24
(April 1989)
Archie,
1986 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 8 times a year in Feb., April, Jun., July, Aug., Sept., Oct. and Dec.
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
- Barcode
- 076956145065 04
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick; Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[Skimobile Outing]
Betty / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed)
- Inks
- Jim DeCarlo (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- drama; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; vignettes: Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper (inset)
![Cover Thumbnail for Betty's Diary (1986 series) #24 [Canadian]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1334/w100/1334778.jpg?4217136406197253450)
Priorities
Betty / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- drama; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Caramel; Alice Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty tries to adjust being a latchkey kid when her mother goes to work full-time.
- Reprints
Diary Combination
Betty / activity / 0.5 page
- Script
- Rod Ollerenshaw (signed)
- Pencils
- Rod Ollerenshaw (signed)
- Inks
- Rod Ollerenshaw (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman ?
- Letters
- Rod Ollerenshaw (signed)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Help Betty find the combination to her new diary.
Indexer Notes
Second half of the page is a statement of ownership.
The Fugitive
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Alice Cooper; Caramel
- Synopsis
- Betty finds an escaped penguin from the zoo and decides to keep it.
- Reprints
-
in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #123 (June 2004), #242 (May 2016)
-
- Keywords
- penguin
Health Education
Archie & Friends / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- teen; advocacy
- Characters
- Waldo Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Chuck Clayton; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- PSA concerning AIDS.
Wanted: Dance Date
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; DeClan McManus; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty is so busy decorating for a Roaring 20s dance that she neglects to get a date for the occasion.
Valentine Gift
Betty / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Nancy Woods; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty gets a box of chocolates from Archie. Jughead also gets one for Ethel, but she isn't home to receive it.
[no title indexed]
Sincerely Yours / letters page / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty offers advice to readers on their problems.
- Keywords
- advice
Queen of Hearts
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- drama; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper
- Synopsis
- Betty dreams of what Valentine's Day might be like if Archie showered her with tokens of affection instead of Veronica.
- Reprints
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #70 (September 1994)
- in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 1987 series) #209 (March 2013), #290 (March 2021)
- in Archie Showcase Digest (Archie, 2020 series) #17 - Archie's Valentine's Special (April 2024)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Skimobile Outing]
Betty -
1.
Priorities
Betty -
2.
Scared Happy
Archie & Friends -
3.
Diary Combination
Betty -
4.
[no title indexed]
-
5.
The Fugitive
Betty -
6.
Health Education
Archie & Friends -
7.
Wanted: Dance Date
Betty -
8.
Valentine Gift
Betty -
9.
[no title indexed]
Sincerely Yours -
10.
Queen of Hearts
Betty
This issue was modified by, among others
- Mark Coale
- Igor Dybzinski
- Thomas Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Gregg Whitmore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.