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Issue: Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #17
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Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
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Volume: 1
Pages: 36
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Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 21 (14 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
teen
Betty and Veronica
Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
What's that, Betty? A television antenna with legs?
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Miscellaneous
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Four-panel story.
Bigger and Bitter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Vigoda
George Frese
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Subject Matter
humorous
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones (cameo); Reggie Mantle (cameo); Adrian (photographer)
Betty is going to give Archie a professional photo of herself for his birthday. Veronica finds out and goes to the same photographer and has a much larger photo made of herself. The sympathetic photographer finds a way for Betty to come out ahead.
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Miscellaneous
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Credits from the reprint in Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest (2016 series) (Archie) #4.
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Fun Page
What's This?
Activity page: What's This?, Draw Me, Color Me, Draw the Design, Finish the Faces, Picture Words
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Miscellaneous
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No characters appear.
Snooty Cuties!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Veronica invites Archie to a party she's hosting for some high-class girls. He thinks he's doing fine until he overhears them making fun of him.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon
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Subject Matter
humorous
Katy Keene Jokes
Katy Keene; Sis
Sis! What do you want to take your castor oil with?
Two single panel jokes: Taking castor oil with a fork and Sis wants a rabbit to help her with her arithmetic.
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Miscellaneous
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Jokes and fashions by Ellen Dobson (San Francisco, Calif.) and Patricia Meagher (Richmond, Va.).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon
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Subject Matter
humorous
Sis the Candy Kid
Sis; Bertha
Somebody's at the door!
Bertha complains about Sis's grammar.
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Three-panel strip plus a panel of jokes. Fashions and jokes by Joanne Kingdom (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), Patricia Gantes (San Diego, Calif.), Lenda Norcross (Snyder, Texas), K. Ron Zabo (Parma, Ohio), and Raymond Morales (Lubbock, Texas).
Wiser Adviser

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Bill Vigoda
Joe Edwards
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Joe Edwards
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Betty
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Archie gets mad when Betty knows more than he does. Jughead advises Betty to play dumb the next time she sees him, but that backfires.
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Credits from the reprint in B&V Friends Double Digest #237.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead
Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
Wonder what it's like to be married to the same man for fifty years?
Looking at an elderly couple on a park bench, Veronica wonders what it would be like to be married for many years.
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Miscellaneous
0.25
Parents, Teachers, Pupils All Agree!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Archie Comics
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Generic promo for Archie comics. Illustrated, but no characters appear.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Al Capp]
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Subject Matter
Fearless Fosdick; Wildroot Cream-Oil
Fearless Fosdick; Anyface; Enzio
That giraffe stole my diamond necklace!
A giraffe swallows a woman's diamond necklace. Fosdick thinks the giraffe is the criminal "Anyface."
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Ad in comic format for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair dressing. Signed "Al Capp," but probably is by his studio.
On the Other Foot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Doyle
Harry Lucey
Herb Holmdale
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Terry Szenics
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Reggie reads that a shoe store has a case of shoes only for the right foot. Betty remembers that Jughead bought a grab bag box at an auction that only had left foot shoes. Reggie and Betty are able to acquire both boxes, but it doesn't work out as intended.
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Miscellaneous
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Veronica does not appear. Credits from the reprint in B&V Friends Double Digest #237.
Plots to You

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?; typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Veronica refuses to talk to Archie and he doesn't have any idea why.
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Miscellaneous
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Text story with two-panel header.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Debby's Diary
Debby; Oliver; Wagner Twins
Dear diary: I need eight more dollars to invest...
Debby wants to earn some money for an investment. She gets a baby-sitting job, but needs some help from her father.
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Fashions by Phyllis Cousino (Erie, Mich.), Phyllis Farrington, (North Fairfield, Ohio), Betty Palmer (Troy, N.Y.), Ruth Leith (Toledo, Ohio), Lola Gravitt (Sunland, Calif.), Bernice Ashferd (Weston, Ontario, Canada), and Carole Peterson (St. Petersburg, Fla.).
Memories

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Veronica
Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Archie and Veronica are listening to records. Songs bring back good memories for Veronica and bad memories for Archie.
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Miscellaneous
1
The Hic Parade

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Joe Edwards
Joe Edwards
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Betty tries to cure Veronica of the hiccups.
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Miscellaneous
2.75
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Reggie
Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
What are you two pondering about?
Reggie gives a suggestion for a motto for the girls sorority house.
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Number Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Samm Schwartz [as Samm.] (signed)
Samm Schwartz [as Samm.] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Betty thinks Archie "has Veronica's number" after she broke a date with him to go with Reggie. She's horrified when Archie takes a hammer to Veronica's house.
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"Has her number" is slang for "knows the true story."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Samm Schwartz ?
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Subject Matter
humorous, war
Reggie
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
I'm throwing a big party!
Reggie throws a party. Reggie tells a joke that ends in a pun on Tibet.
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Miscellaneous
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Two jokes in unusual format. One is three panels presented as the page of an partially-open comic book. The other is head shots and text presented in negative (yellow on black) format.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Archie Giant Series
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Calling all kids!
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Miscellaneous
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Promo for Jughead Annual #3 and Betty and Veronica Annual #3. Covers are depicted, along with original artwork.
One of Those Daze

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Betty
Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones
No matter what Reggie says to Moose about Midge, he gets beaten up.
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Baby Ruth; Curtis Candy Co.
Delicious for Folks of Action!
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Back cover. Western-themed cartoon ad for Baby Ruth candy bars. Curtiss Candy Company.

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