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Issue: Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #44
Publication Date: August 1959
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Issues: #44 of 347 Issues (382 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Starting with this issue, this title is published monthly. It would remain a monthly until the early '80s.
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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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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: Doesn't the last day of school make you feel sort of sad?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Later redrawn for the cover of Laugh Comics Digest #6
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School Daze

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Synopsis: With the end of term impending, Betty and Veronica go around the school browbeating the other students into not thinking it's a good thing as a favor to Miss Grundy.
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Pages: 6
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Elvis Presley

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Betty Presents the Star of the Month
Synopsis: Short biography of singer Elvis Presley.
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Pages: 1
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A Pat Hand

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Genres: teen
Synopsis: Veronica thinks Reggie is double-jointed.
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Pages: 0.5
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Subject to Failing

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Genres: teen
Synopsis: The good news is that Veronica didn't fail Algebra.
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Sheep Skinned

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Genres: humorous, teen
Synopsis: Jughead and the other boys accuse the girls of being "sheep" because they always start wearing the latest fashions, whether or not the boys find those new fashions appealing.
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In Content Item: FlagArchie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo #1 published May 2010
as Sheep Skinned [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This story incorporates many fashion trends of the late '50s. Betty and Veronica begin the story wearing a combination of short pleated skirts and thick stockings, which were advertised in magazines of the period as a style for college girls. Bermuda shorts and Italian suits for men are among other styles referred to.
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Designing Woman

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Genres: teen
Synopsis: When Betty shows off the dress she made herself, and it turns out to be a duplicate of the dress Veronica just bought from Paris, Veronica decides to make sure that Betty never wears that dress.
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Pages: 5
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Third-Class Male

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Genres: teen
Synopsis: Jughead gets a little revenge for having to stand in a postal line behind two gossiping women.
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Pages: 0.5
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All Cracked Up

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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Jenkins
Synopsis: Shrimpy has a unique way to clean up spills.
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Time Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Jenkins
Synopsis: Jenkins has an appointment to keep.
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One Big Pane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica attempt to convince Archie that an empty window frame actually contains a pane of glass.
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Pages: 6

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