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Issue: Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #1
Publication Date: January 1952
 
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/12/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 116
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 33 (19 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: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
I love Archie!
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Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Super Duck; Jughead Jones; Wilbur Wilkin; Katy Keene; Reggie Mantle; Red Wilson; Suzie; Fauntleroy; Ginger Snapp
It isn't raining rain yuh know, it's raining Archie Comics!
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Promo for Archie Comics magazines parodying the 1921 song "April Showers" and featuring Archie singing the song over a shower of comic books. Inside front cover.
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Beach Nuts

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Archie, what is it?? Did something bite you??
Archie and the gang are at the beach on a windy day. Archie sets up a cabana from Veronica which blows away so Archie nails it down to some wood. They start playing canasta but the wind blows the cards away so they decide to finish play in the cabana but it gets washed out to sea with them still in it when the tide comes up.
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All Balled Up

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Oh, Archiekins! Do you feel any different today than you've felt other days?
It's the first day of spring and the guys are interested in is baseball rather than girls.
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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Hey, kids! Look!
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Promo encouraging readers to purchase a gift copy of this issue for a friend.
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Archie Andrews
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Indian war paint designs, how to make Indian rattles, coloring activity and connect the dots.
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The Net Wit

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Professor Strudel
Golly! I never knew you were a lepidopterist, Prof. Strudel!
A lepidopterist is in town searching for a rare butterfly and takes the gang with him to try and catch one.
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Hoops My Dear

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Mr. Richbuck
What ho, my lovely! Tis I, Archie, Knight of the Dilapidated Flivver!
Mr. Lodge has a very important meeting with Mr. Richbuck with millions on the line and Archie keep disturbing Mr Lodge.
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Out in Front

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Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee
Boy! They're having a big sale in the school supply store!!
Archie and Reggie are waiting in line for the school supplies store to open and Reggie hits a guy who he thinks is cutting in line.
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Mr. Weatherbee is drawn off-model in this story with a different hair pattern and no glasses.
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Fountain of Youth

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Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Reggie Mantle
Weatherbee old boy, it was quite a battle getting the school board to appropriate funds for a new fountain in front of the west wing of the school, but you did it!
The new fountain that Mr. Weatherbee got school funds for is broken in half on the day that the superintendent is coming to do an inspection. Mr. Weatherbee is also having trouble with Archie getting him wet all day.
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Gun Fun

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Boy, what a day for hunting, eh, Jug!
Jughead gives Archie gun safety tips.
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Fair Game or Fowl

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
Ha, ha! --- Betty! Look at this pair of fowl balls waddling up the street!
Jughead is followed by a duck after he feeds him at the pond. The duck then follows Betty into school and goes into Mr. Weatherbee's office.
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Archie Puzzle Fun
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Includes identifying famous person (Thomas Dewey), pic-charade, and magic box.
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Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Let's have a little pep talk, gang!!
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Promo for Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) featuring Coach Kleats giving a pep talk to his football team.
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The More the Merrier

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Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Geraldine Grundy; Waldo Weatherbee; Mary Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Mayor Gibbons
Oh, Betty, I'm so unhappy!
Mr. Lodge is planning a Founders Day Celebration but when Betty overhears the plans she thinks he's planning a surprise birthday party for Veronica so she invites everyone over to his house.
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Babes in the Woods

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Hives (Smithers look-a-like); Fred Andrews
Wow! What's the rush for, Arch? House on fire?
Archie gets himself invited on a hike by Veronica but Reggie sabotages his plans and takes her instead.
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Never Count on a Dame!

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Archie chugged his jalopy to a stop in front of Jughead's house.
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Angle With a Mangle

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Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump
Well! What's eating our typical American teen ager today?
Moose and Midge break up so Archie tries to get Moose to go out with Betty to keep her from getting in between him and Veronica.
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Face Your Face

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Professor Kronk
Thank you, sir. Read this card!
A TV trivia show takes Jughead's picture and tells him to watch the program to see if his picture comes up. If they do show hi picture does then he can win money if he phones in and answers the question correctly and then shows up in person to prove it's really him.
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Archie Puzzle Fun
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Includes rebus for baseball player (Don Newcombe), drawing man, using toothpicks to make number 2, and optical illusion.
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Jughead Jones
Monkey business!
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Promo for Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) featuring Jughead swapping roles with an organ grinder.
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It's a Snap

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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Fred Andrews; Hiram Lodge
Okay, okay, everybody! Let's see the gleam of that china!
Jughead takes up photography and Archie, Veronica and Mr. Weatherbee pose for the pictures. When Reggie develops them they get shredded by his fan and when he pieces them back together it appears to show Mr. Weatherbee hitting and kicking Archie and Betty.
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Keep Cool

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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Betty! I think the house is on fire!
What to do when there's a fire.
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Safe on First

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Mary Andrews
Here's a book, miss, called "How to Get to First Base with a Man!"
Betty buys a book on how to get to first base with a man and uses it on Archie. When he sees the title of the book he thinks its a book about baseball and tries to borrow it from her.
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How Now Brown Cow

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Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Hiram Lodge
We simply must do something about that collection of ashes in the cellar, Mr. Weatherbee.
Mr. Weatherbee sends Archie to pick up a scow to get rid of garbage and he comes back with a cow. The farmer doesn't want it back so he takes the cow to his parent's house and then to Veronica's house after his parents make him get rid of it.
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The Moose Trap

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Pop Tate
Look out!
Jughead is tired of seeing everyone running away from Moose so he decides to use some psychology to handle him.
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Lottie Little is still Moose's girlfriend in this story.
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Don't Let It Puzzle You
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Includes dartboard puzzle, two rebuses, fill in the blanks, word square, and drawing things with letter "E."
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Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Know your ABC's!
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Promo for Archie Comics featuring the acronym ABC: Archie Best Comics.
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Leery Theory

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Waldo Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Good grief, Coach, how many catchers do you need on a team?
Mr. Weatherbee encourages Coach Kleats to use Archie as a pitcher in the baseball game even though he isn't very good. He says that modern psychology has proven that giving a job to someone with little talent sometimes inspires him to do better work.
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Study Buddy

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Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
I'm sorry Reggie! But Archie already asked me to Saturday night's dance!
Archie crams for a test that he has to pass in order to get an increase in his allowance. Reggie pretends to help him but gives him false information so Archie flunks his test.
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Archie Puzzle Fun
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Includes amazing color wheel, crow's word (crossword drawn within crow), and rebus.
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Read Laugh 'cause the world reads Laugh with you!
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Advertisement for Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) featuring a globe laughing while reading an issue.
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Caught with His Plans Down!

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Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Fred, dear -- since you're only working a half day tomorrow why don't you go out and play a little golf in the afternoon?
Archie's father says he can't go play golf tomorrow because he has too much to do around the house. When Archie overhears this he cancels all of his plans and tells his father that he'll do the work around the house so he can play golf. Fred thinks this must be a trick and he won't fall for it.
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