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- This book collects all of the Archie stories from Pep Comics #46-#50, and Archie Comics #7-#10, all originally edited by Harry Shorten and published by MLJ Magazines between February and September 1944.
- Script
- Mike Pellerito
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- Introduction written by Mike Pellerito, President of Archie Comics.
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- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed)
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- ?
- Genre
- humor; superhero; teen
- Characters
- The Shield; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
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- Keywords
- ice sculptures; snow; snow shovels; statues of Archie Andrews
Reprint of the Pep #46 cover.
- Script
- Harry Sahle [as Sahle]; Ed Goggin [as Goggin]
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle [as Sahle]
- Inks
- Virginia Drury [as Ginger]
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Gabby (introduction); Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Pop Tate (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Archie gets a cheque for $50 from his grandfather, makes a list of what he wants to buy for his friends, but most of the money is gone by the time he buys the gifts.
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- Keywords
- Christmas; sleigh
Signed in the last panel. This story contains the first appearances of Gabby, the town blabbermouth, and Pop Tate, the owner of Pop's Chocklit Shop. In this story, his restaurant is called Tate's and he is a skinny, older man with gray hair and a mustache. Also, the Shorten Special on page 4 is a reference to MLJ editor Harry Shorten.
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Harry Sahle
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I, the Shield, will save you!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews [also as the Shield]; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
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- Keywords
- comic books; dreaming; impersonations; sleep
Reprint of the Pep #47 cover.
- Script
- Carl Hubbell
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Harry Sahle
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Oscar (Archie's dog); Mrs. Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- When Oscar runs away, Archie and Mr. Andrews look for him.
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- Keywords
- war rationing
official credits from Archie comics (previous indexer thought the "story by Hubbell" credit line meant that Hubbell drew it.)
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
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- Keywords
- funhouse mirrors
Reprint of the Archie #7 cover.
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Harry Sahle
- Letters
- Harry Sahle
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- A Jughead pin-up. It is part of a series of five character portraits that ran in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #6-10. This one features Jughead carrying textbooks while being chased by a dog.
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- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Archie accidentally ends up with two dates on the same night and he tries to keep them both.
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Betty and Veronica are definitely rivals for Archie now!
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Oscar; Mr. Whipple (introduction); Mrs. Whipple (introduction); Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mrs. Andrews
- Synopsis
- Oscar causes trouble due to the amount of food he consumes.
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Story title from table of contents.
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- Ed Goggin
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- Janice Valleau
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- Janice Valleau
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Tim Paine; Tom Paine
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica go to a party and think they're dating the same boy. However, the boys are identical twins.
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Story title from table of contents.
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- Curley Cole
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- typeset
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to make watering the plants easier.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Grandpa Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mrs. Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Grandpa Andrews goes with Archie on his picnic.
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Story title from table of contents.
Not the same Grandpa Andrews as the one in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #22 and #23.
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- ?
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- Harry Sahle
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- Janice Valleau ?
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Souphead Jones; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Prof. Albert Birdbrain (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Souphead claims he can solve any problem, so Archie challenges him to find a way to get Reggie away from Veronica.
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- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie breaks one of Mr. Weatherbee's clocks and tries to replace it.
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- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- The gang plants pumpkin seeds with unexpected results.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- gardening; watering cans
Reprint of the Archie #8 cover.
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Harry Sahle
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Harry Sahle
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- A Veronica pin-up. It is part of a series of five character portraits that ran in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #6-10. This one features Veronica hanging up and admiring pictures of Archie on her wall.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
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- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Miss Grundy; Mrs. Andrews; Veronica's doctor; Gabby; Dr. Bleed M. Enwepe (introduction)
- Synopsis
- On Friday the 13th, Archie gets punched by Reggie and goes home to clean up. Meanwhile, Jughead tells Miss Grundy Archie is absent due to a toothache. When Miss Grundy tells Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Andrews mistakes Archie's bruise for the toothache. Archie ends up at the hospital and nearly goes into surgery when he lies down in another patient's bed.
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2nd appearance of Gabby, the town blabbermouth.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mrs. Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie reads a horror story while alone and begins to imagine things.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- It's Mrs. Andrews's birthday. While shopping, Mrs. Andrews sees Mr. Andrews watching another woman model a coat. It turns out that the girl was Betty and the coat was a birthday present for Mrs. Andrews.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jump, Archie, jump!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Oscar (Archie's dog); Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to train Oscar and his dog friends to perform various tasks.
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- Script
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- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie inspired puzzle page.
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- Script
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- Harry Sahle ?
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- Janice Valleau ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Moe (introduction); Miss Bevans (introduction)
- Synopsis
- While wearing a zoot suit, Archie stains Mr. Andrews's pants. Archie leaves his zoot suit and goes to get his dad new pants. However, Archie doesn't come back and Mr. Andrews is left to work the office in his underwear. He eventually goes home in the zoot suit.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Janice Valleau
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- Janice Valleau
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- ?
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Tappa Haffa Keg sorority...
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle (cameo); Archie Andrews (cameo); Jughead Jones (cameo); Mr. Weatherbee; Sally Green (introduction); Kappa Tappa Keg sorority (introduction); Jasper (professor, introduction); Lucifer (professor, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Veronica and Betty nearly get into trouble by Professors Jasper and Lucifer for setting up a date bureau. However, Betty shows the professors some elderly women available for dating. Since they don't exist, Betty and Veronica dress up as the women and date the professors.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harry Sahle
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
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- Harry Sahle
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Bobby (introduction); Dawn Dove (introduction); Reggie Mantle (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Bobby lets Archie date his Hollywood cousin Dawn. Unfortunately, Dawn is not as attractive as it sounds.
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle [as Sahle] (signed)
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- ?
- Letters
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! How's that for a catch, Shield?
- Genre
- humor; superhero; teen
- Characters
- The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Archie Andrews (as a fish); Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- The Shield, Betty, and Veronica catch something unexpected while fishing.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- fishing; rowboats; swimsuits
Reprint of the Pep #48 cover.
- Script
- Ed Goggin [as Goggin]
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle [as Sahle]
- Inks
- Virginia Drury [as Ginger]
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Kappy (introduction); Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie gets a new camera and starts taking pictures that get him in trouble.
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed)
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- ?
- Genre
- humor; superhero; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; The Shield; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Reprints
- Keywords
- daydreaming; diving; swimming; swimsuits
Reprint of the Pep #49 cover.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle [as Sahle]
- Inks
- Janice Valleau [as Ginger]
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- ?
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But but -- I can explain everything, Mr. Weatherbee, honest!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie is caught trying to play a prank on Reggie and is sent to the principal's office. Mr. Weatherbee uses his latest readings in child psycology and gives Archie responsibility for a school picnic aboard a boat. Archie accidentally charters a garbage scow, but everything turns out all right in the end.
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- Harry Sahle (signed)
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- Harry Sahle (signed)
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! If the old battle-axe could only see herself now!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Miss Grundy
- Reprints
- Keywords
- art; chalk boards; drawings
First cover appearance of Miss Grundy.
Reprint of the Archie #9 cover.
- Script
- Harry Sahle
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
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- ?
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- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Arch-ee (caveman, introduction); Grun-di (cave woman, introduction); Veronica (as cave woman, introduction); Jughead (as caveman, introduction); King Bee [Weatherbee] (as caveman, introduction); Reg-gie (caveman, introduction); Betty (as cave woman, introduction); Oscar (as dinosaur, introduction)
- Synopsis
- A day in the life of teenage caveman Arch-ee and his friends.
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first "alternate Archie" story
Harry Sahle wrote a note at the end asking if readers liked this kind of story.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
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- Ed Goggin
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- ?
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- Letters
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- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- John Arden describes his hobby of stamp collecting, Bobby Wainwright discusses his name meaning hobby, and Rose Shorten talks about her hobby of collecting insects.
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First appearance of feature.
Rose Shorten probably related to editor Harry Shorten.
- Script
- Ed Goggin; Harry Sahle
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
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- Harry Sahle
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- ?
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- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Fred Andrews; Gabby; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie waterproofs the girls' dresses. Unfortunately, water makes the dresses shrink and when the sprinkler system goes off at the dance, chaos ensues.
- Reprints
Title from table of contents.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle ?
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- Harry Sahle ?
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- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie has trouble mailing a letter to Veronica.
- Reprints
An illustrated text story.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Ed Goggin
- Inks
- Ed Goggin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie performs magic tricks at Betty's birthday party.
- Reprints
An illustrated text story.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Thinking Archie is pulling a April Fool's joke, Mr. Andrews throws a box from the attic outside. Unfortunately, it contained his love letters to Mrs. Andrews and Mr. Andrews must go around town and find them.
- Reprints
This story takes place Apr. 1, 1944.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Janice Valleau
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
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- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And now, girls we'll have Miss Veronica practice on Betty Cooper!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Dr. George; Miss Neill (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Betty and Veronica are taking first-aid classes and decide to try out some methods on Archie.
- Reprints
Story is untitled.
The title "And Now, Girls" is used in the 2018 collection "Best of Archie Comics Betty and Veronica Vol. 2".
- Script
- Harry Sahle
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- Harry Sahle
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- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Oscar (Archie's dog); sidewalk paver
- Synopsis
- The sidewalk paver tries to keep Oscar from walking through the wet cement.
- Reprints
Title from table of contents.
- Script
- ?
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- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews
- Reprints
- Keywords
- gondolas; gondoliers; guitars; music; singing; Venice
Reprint of the Archie #10 cover.
- Script
- Harry Sahle
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; The Masked Marvels (trapeze artists; Joe and others; introduction)
- Synopsis
- While hiding from the circus ringleader, Archie disguises himself as a trapeze artist. Unfortunately, the rest of the trapeze artists mistake him for Joe and Archie ends up in the circus.
- Reprints
Monkey on page two is called a Goggintua, a reference to MLJ writer Ed Goggin.
- Script
- Harry Sahle
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Varlet!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Oscar (Archie's dog); Archie Andrews; Archie's bunny
- Synopsis
- Oscar tries to get rid of the new center of attention, Archie's bunny.
- Reprints
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Ed Goggin
- Inks
- Ed Goggin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie runs back and forth between the butcher and his house.
- Reprints
An illustrated text story.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Janice Valleau [as Ginger] (credited)
- Inks
- Janice Valleau [as Ginger] (credited)
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- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With his fangs, what does he need us for?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Craig (country club president, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead use Archie's new pet beavers to chop down trees to build a log dam at the country club. Unfortunately, the boys build the dam in the wrong place and flood the course.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- beaver; golf course
Title from the table of contents.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Ed Goggin
- Inks
- Ed Goggin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Archie and Jughead perform tricks with eggs.
- Reprints
An illustrated text story.
- Script
- Bill Vigoda
- Pencils
- Bill Vigoda
- Inks
- Bill Vigoda
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why, look, new neighbors moving in--
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Frank Tinsley (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Veronica and Betty cause a lot of trouble for Betty's new neighbor Frank Tinsley.
- Reprints
First Archie story by Bill Vigoda. Bill Vigoda would go on to be the primary Archie artist throughout the 1940s.
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Harry Sahle
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- G'bye, Archie!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie is interrupted by various people while trying to do his homework.
- Reprints
An Archie Short
- Script
- Ed Goggin
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Archie causes a lot of chaos when he takes Betty and Jughead on a picnic.
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; superhero; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; The Shield; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; The Black Hood
- Reprints
- Keywords
- diving; swimming pools; swimsuits
Reprint of the Pep #50 cover.
- Script
- Harry Sahle
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle
- Inks
- Janice Valleau
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mr. and Mrs. Abner Hassenfeffer (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Archie tries to sell an abandoned house for his father. When a couple comes to look at it, they are forced to spend the night due to rain. Meanwhile, Archie reads a story about treasure to Jughead and the couple tries to buy the house, thinking there is treasure in the cellar.
- Reprints
Title from the table of contents.
- Pencils
- Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Montana [as Montana] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; superhero; teen
- Characters
- The Shield [Joe Higgins] (also inset); The Hangman [Bob Dickering]; Archie Andrews; Captain Commando [John Grayson] (inset); Sgt. Boyle [Henry Boyle] (inset); Danny (inset); Bentley (inset)
- Reprints
- Keywords
- comic books; ice skating; reading; snow; winter
Reprint of the Pep #36 cover. This was the first issue to feature Archie on the cover.