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Genres: teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge

First Line: You going out for the school orchestra, Betty? I didn't know you could play an instrument!

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First Line: Whichever way you go

Synopsis: Promo for Wilbur, Laugh, and Super Duck comics.

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Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin

First Line: Tic...tac...toe...whichever way you go...you always win with Wilbur.

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Notes: Promo for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring Wilbur's head in the spaces of a tic-tac-toe board. Inside front cover.

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First Line: More fun than a barrel full of monkeys!

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Notes: Advertisement for Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) featuring laughing monkeys reading the series. Inside front cover.

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Character(s): Super Duck

First Line: Don't say "good" or "better" or "best"..say "Super Duck."

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Notes: Promo for Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series). Inside front cover.

Originality Breeds Contempt

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle

First Line: Do you realize we've got a weekend coming up and we haven't made plans to do anything?

Synopsis: Reggie comes up with the idea for a dance where the girls come dressed as the guys they want to date, but when the girls realize they've all asked Reggie and Archie for their outfits, Jughead becomes the most popular guy at the dance.

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Jester Gigolo

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump

First Line: If I'm not too personal, why all the mourning this morning?

Synopsis: Jughead opens an escort service to fund the girls' baseball uniforms. Angered by the need to go through Jughead for dates, Archie and Reggie attempt to have Jughead work as an escort for Midge, incurring Moose's wrath.

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Feature(s): Don't Let It Puzzle You

First Line: Puzzle

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Includes making 18 cuts along paper to produce unique pieces, rebuses, and riddles.

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge

First Line: Know your ABC's!

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Promo for Archie Comics featuring the acronym ABC: Archie Best Comics.

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First Line: This never happened to your bike before

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Forever Umbrella

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Suzie; Angela; Chubby

First Line: Please, Auntie Suzie (choke) do I have to wear all these clothes?

Synopsis: Angela finds several uses for an umbrella when playing in the snow.

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First Line: Double Bubble Gum

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Character(s): Archie Andrews

First Line: Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Promo for Archie Club membership featuring first-prize report from Sheila Goldzman (Westbury, NY) and second-prize report from Lottie Anderson (New York City, NY).

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis; K.O. Kelly

First Line: As our scene opens, Katy and Sis are awe-stricken as they listen to the newest recording of Mario Linchya...

Synopsis: A mixup at the radio station causes Katy to think that wrestler, The Great Carootzo, is an amazing singer.

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Notes: Splash page dresses by Mrs. Dee Williamson (Vancouver, WA), Jean Aronson (Torrington, CT), and Mary Ellen Jones (Pontiac 18, MI); Katy's coiffure by Cira Serros (El Paso, TX); shoes by Carole Watson (Lincoln, AR); Katy's blouse by June Billings (Carlsbad, NM); skirt by Doris Marshall (Newport News, VA); Carootzo's outfit by Paquita Del Rey (Santa Barbara, CA); K.O.'s T-shirt and pose by Waymon Darnell (Rattan, OK); Katy's dress by Geraldine Bradburn (Flint 5, MI); date dresses by Betty Adams (Aransas Pass, TX), Alma Mansfield (Port Arthur, TX), Dolores Carabin (Gary, IN), Barbara Halladay (Rosemead, CA), Marian O'Connor (Grayling, MI), Carol Gillspie (Houston 6, TX), Brandy (no address), and Kitty Grayson (Washington 10, DC); Sis's song dress by Jo Ann Wood (Mobile, AL); Katy's negligee by Robert Brooke Gittings (Washington, DC); P.J.'s by Marilyn Newquist (Brockton 7, MA); Katy's coiffure by Ray Nuss (Danville, PA) and Anito Spelay (Vernon, BC); Carootzo's song shorts by Joe Dal Pozzo (Santa Barbara, CA).

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Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis

First Line: Katy Keene America's pin-up queen now stars in her own book 4 times a year!

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Notes: Promo for Katy Keene Comics (Archie, 1949 series) promoting its new quarterly schedule featuring Katy looking through a hand telescope. Pose, costume, etc. by Marlene Kuhar (Falmouth, MA).

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle

First Line: Curtain going up!

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Notes: Promo for Archie Annual (Archie, 1950 series) #4 featuring the gang raising the curtain on the new issue.

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Feature(s): From Hollywood

Character(s): Archie Andrews

First Line: Doris Day's Life Made Significant By Three Cities

Synopsis: News from Hollywood.

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Feature(s): Pep Puzzle Page

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Notes: Includes anagrams for shorebirds, finding hidden owl in picture, rearranging letters in names as states, drawing cow, optical illusion, and connect-the-dots.

Gas Pains

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Slats Morgan; Mr. Dripwaite; Linda Moore; Red

First Line: I wonder if this rattle box will get us to school in one piece--

Synopsis: Wilbur's car troubles coincide with the need to pick up a school lecturer from the train station.

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My Achin' Back!!

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones

First Line: Hey, Jug, watch me make a sucker out of Archie.

Synopsis: Reggie ignores Archie's advice on safely lifting heavy boxes and injures his back.

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Notes: Berg disguises his signature in the pencil line of a bush in the first panel.

Sno' Man

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Bill Bubblegum [Hap Holliday]; Alvin; Merry Bubblegum [Merry Holliday]

First Line: Waaaa ... Daddy!! I don't want any more fresh air...

Synopsis: Bill tries to teach Li'l Jinx and Alvin how to sled and ends up frozen.

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First Line: Hi, Pen Pals: Our club now has thousands of members who have made many new friends through the mail.

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Notes: Li'l Jinx shares the names and addresses of 44 new club members.

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First Line: Try 20 vials of world-famous perfumes

Synopsis: Discount perfume samples.

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First Line: Newest records

Synopsis: Mail order records.

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First Line: The two best ways to fill a pen

Synopsis: Fountain pen ink.

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