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Issue: Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #3
Publication Date: January 1954
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Issues: #3 of 224 Issues (304 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/14/1954
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 38 (30 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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Some/all of Issue reprinted as 2 Content Items in other Issues:
FlagArchie Americana Series #2 published January 1992 as There Oughta Be a Law [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWorld of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #30 [Direct Edition] published August 2013 as Starry Eyed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: On the one hand... Jughead eats, and Reggie bleats! Boy! What troublesome pals!
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Quit Your Kitten

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate; Mrs. Cooper
First Line: Doesn't he have the cutest little nose you've ever seen??
Synopsis: Veronica's kitten Galahad runs away so the gang all have the same idea to find cats to replace it.
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From Pillar to Post!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Waldo Weatherbee
First Line: For heaven's sake, Moose!
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica criticize Moose's English and when he explains what he's doing for Mr. Weatherbee they tell him that he's obviously misunderstood what Mr. Weatherbee was asking him to do.
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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Hey! What happened to you?
Synopsis: Reggie's back is hurting because his bed is too short. Jughead tells him that there's an easy fix: don't sleep so long.
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Station Break!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Archie! For heaven's sake!
Synopsis: Veronica calls Betty to tell her that she's coming into town and that she should tell Archie to pick her up. When Archie hears, he dashes off to the bus station but she's coming in by train. Betty lets him go because she wants Veronica to get mad at Archie for not showing up.
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Mixed Fix

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Mr. Moneybags
First Line: No answer, Arch?
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge has a bet with Mr. Moneybags that whoever loses will have to sell the other one their factories. Mr. Lodge is hoping to lose because his factories are losing money but Archie and Jughead have a plan to make him win by putting Mr. Moneybag's balls in tough spots and kicking Mr. Lodge's ball out of the woods and onto the fairway.
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Ankles Away!

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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Brunhilda
First Line: Well, if it isn't Dr. Kildare!
Synopsis: Jughead goes on a date with Brunhilda because she's cooking a turkey but he fakes a sprained leg so he won't have to dance with her.
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String You Sinner!

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Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Professor Flutesnoot; Jughead Jones
First Line: Ready for the chem test, Reggie?
Synopsis: Reggie tries to cheat on his chemistry test by attaching a book of formulas to a string outside the window but is caught by Mr. Weatherbee.
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From Rags to Switches

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Pop Tate; Professor Flutesnoot
First Line: Hmmmph! The way these kids dress for school is atrocious!!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee doesn't like the sloppy ways that the kids dress at schools and it's made worse when he hears the superintendent - who also hates sloppy dress - is coming to inspect the school.
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It's a Drawl

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First Line: Hmph! There goes that predatory pixie from Dixie!
Synopsis: A southern girl is in town and has Archie infatuated.
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First Line: Hey gang! Send in for your copy of the brand-new Archie Annual #6 and we'll send you this gorgeous, 4-color 1955 pin-up calendar... absolutely free!!
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Truce Is Stranger than Fiction!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge
First Line: Perhaps I have been a bit hasty in forbidding Archie to call on you, Veronica----
Synopsis: Archie lets Mr. Lodge’s parakeet out of its cage and smashes his plants and knocks over his butler while trying to catch it.
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Pie in Her Eye!

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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate; Reggie Mantle (illustration only); Betty Cooper (illustration only)
First Line: Jughead sat at the counter in the Choklit Shoppe munching a hamburger.
Synopsis: Jughead helps Veronica snap out of an obsession with a brooding movie actress.
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Starry Eyed

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First Line: Boy! What an exciting movie!
Synopsis: After watching a movie about a hunter killing a leopard, Archie, Betty, and Veronica all have different dreams about it.
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Rise 'n' Sign!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
First Line: Archie Andrews! -- He should be quintuplets, so I could hate him five times as much!!
Synopsis: Reggie sticks a sign on Archie's back that says "Midge Loves Me" in order to get Moose mad at Archie.
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Oyster Stew

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First Line: Hey fellas -- join me in some delicious oysters!
Synopsis: Jughead gets some oysters and invites Archie and Reggie to share them if they'll help shuck them, but they refuse and devise a plan - by buying a few pearls and hiding them in some of the oysters - to get Jughead to shuck them all.
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First Line: What is Archie doing on the cover of this magazine?
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From Hot to Cooler

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Reggie! -- Reggie!! Wait till you hear the awful thing that's happened to Archie!
Synopsis: Archie gets a job at the car wash wiping down cars, but Betty mishears it as swiping cars and thinks that Archie has joined a car theft gang to get enough money for prom tickets.
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Trapped!

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First Line: But Arch! - It's sure fire!
Synopsis: Reggie tries to borrow money from Archie and Jughead to buy traps for muskrat. After getting swindled by Reggie too many times, they refuse and convince Moose to invest so he can knock some sense into Reggie after he gets taken for a ride.
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Gun with the Wind!

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: Did you hear that Reggie lost his job at the gun factory?!
Synopsis: Betty says that Reggie lost his job at the gun factory because they didn't want anyone of his calibre working there.
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An Explosive Situation

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Betty Cooper
First Line: (Chuckle! Chuckle!) Jughead - you sly rogue!
Synopsis: In order to get back at Reggie for putting a lizard down his back, Jughead puts a gadget with an exploding cap under the lid of Reggie's desk, so that when Reggie opens it, the cap will explode. Mr. Weatherbee gets to Reggie's desk first, so Jughead tries to hold him back.
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There Oughta Be a Law

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Mary Andrews; Fred Andrews; Moose Mason
First Line: Archie!
Synopsis: Archie thinks there should be a law where kids run things instead of parents. He gets hit on the head with a baseball and has a dream about what that would be like.
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Character(s): Betty Cooper
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Dime Of Your Life!

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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: To cheer Jughead up, Archie lends his friend his copy of Archie's Joke Book #3.
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Special Delivery!

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First Line: How can you read those "lonely hearts" columns? What trash!
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica create a fictitious personal ad to see who will respond.
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Tooth or Consequences

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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Hi, Jug! All set for our picnic?
Synopsis: Jughead has to mow the lawn of one of his father's friends. Archie tells him to ditch it by pretending to have a toothache but the friend turns out to be a dentist.
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Good Losers

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Coach Kleats; Waldo Weatherbee
First Line: Stee-rike three!
Synopsis: Coach Kleats' team loses the baseball game and his team isn't upset and doesn't make excuses. Mr. Weatherbee commends Kleats on his team being good losers.
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Three Must-Get-Theirs

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy
First Line: Stop that ball-playing!
Synopsis: The guys try to stay out of trouble at school and it makes Mr. Weatherbee nervous that they're hatching some diabolical plan.
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Oven Lovin

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First Line: Sa-ay - isn't there something different about you today, Veronica?
Synopsis: Betty wonders why Archie fawns over Veronica but barely notices her. Jughead suggest that they way to a man's heart is through his stomach so she should make a marble cake for Archie.
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First Line: Everybody's Christmas present!
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Plug Ugly

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First Line: D-uh! Hey Archie! How about a swimmin' race?
Synopsis: Reggie insults Moose after he's finished swimming and gets away with it. Archie is amazed until Jughead mentions that Moose gets momentarily deaf when he gets water in his ears.
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Ship Shape

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First Line: I'm sorry Veronica, but I can't meet you after school!
Synopsis: Veronica has some studio pictures made of herself and gives one to Archie to stop from feeling lonely. He leaves it on Mr. Weatherbee's desk when Mrs. Weatherbee walks in and thinks it's a girl that her husband is seeing.
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First Line: Scientists claim there is nothing new under the sun!
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The Plot Thickens

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First Line: Movies? You bet I'll go!
Synopsis: Archie takes Betty to the same movie he took Veronica to last night.
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Double Trouble!

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First Line: ...Then I'll see you Saturday night Gloria
Synopsis: Jughead has a new girlfriend Gloria who has a twin. Reggie asks to be introduced to the twin.
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Let's Drop the Subject!

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Character(s): Souphead
First Line: How is your cousin Jughead, Souphead?
Synopsis: Souphead says Jughead hurt himself seeing who could lean furthest out the window.
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Top Secret

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First Line: Looks like someone flipped their wig!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee's wig comes off and Archie catches it. Mr. Weatherbee makes Archie promise to never tell anyone about the wig and he agrees in exchange for having his two weeks detention cancelled.
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