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Issue: Archie's Pal Jughead #22
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/15/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 8, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, January-June, 1954.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US, then Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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Digital Edition
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Title Page
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Yeah… Reggie said he'd buy me a drink if I'd get him a date with Veronica!
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Later redrawn for the cover of Archie's Pal Jughead #72
Easel Said Than Done!

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humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
Boy! You look lower than a snake with fallen arches!
Reggie impresses Veronica with his paintings, but Jughead helps Archie by planting small doubts about the portrait Reggie paints of Veronica. Veronica ends up smashing the painting over Reggie's head.
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Using the Old Beanie!

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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Hey Jug -- aren't you ashamed of wearing that stupid looking beanie?
After Jughead explains all the beneficial uses of his beanie, Archie and Reggie both decide to get matching beanies too.
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Dixie Doodles!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
Hey Arch, dig this dodo! He claims he could kiss Midge right in front of Big Moose and not be scared!
Jughead dresses up as a woman, the fictional Agatha Culpepper with a Southern accent. After buttering up Moose, he exclaims his joy in meeting Midge and kisses her. Later, looking completely beat up, he explains to Archie and Reggie that Midge beat him up thinking he (as she) was trying to steal Moose away from her.
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Ginger Snapp; Ickky; Tommy Turner; Patsy; Bunny Clarke
If you knew Ginger, like we know Ginger
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Promo for Ginger comics
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Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Repeat performance!
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Promo for Archie's Pal Jughead Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #2 and Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #2.
Peanuts To You!

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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Suzie
A peanut butter sandwich for lunch ... I'm not too fond of it!
Suzie complains about having peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day, but she admits she makes them herself.
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Speech-Less!

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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
I just wrote my election speech! I'm a cinch to win now!
Jughead bets Reggie that he has seen every word of Reggie's speech in a book. Reggie bets him a dozen sodas he hasn't. Jughead proves it by bringing in the book: the dictionary.
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Super Duck
Hey, kids!.... Climb on the band wagon
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Promo for Super Duck comics
Real Gone Guy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy
Jughead, where did you say Betty and Veronica are?
Jughead says the incorrect "they have went home," so Miss Grundy makes him write "gone home" on the board 100 times. When he finishes, she isn't there, so he leaves a note to her, saying, "I have went home."
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It's All Mental

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Mr. Weatherbee; Professor Snodgrass; Jughead Jones
Kaff! Kaff! Harrumph! This psychological test, Mr. Weatherbee, requires the assistance of one of your typical students!
Professor Snodgrass tries a word association test with Jughead, but Jughead responds every time with the word "hamburgers." Mr. Weatherbee sends him to lunch and when Jughead returns, he continues to respond with "hamburgers."
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Wilbur Wilkin
How's your arithmetic, gang?
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Promo for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring Wilbur adding up the formula for his eponymous series on a blackboard.
The Lawn Ranger!

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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Wilbur Wilkin; Mr. Wilkin
Oh boy!
Wilbur is so distracted while mowing the lawn, that he doesn't get any of the grass cut, so his father fixes the problem by putting blinders on his head.
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What the Doctor Ordered

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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Wow! Look at this sign!
Pop Tate offers to sell a sundae of the customer's design for only one dollar. Jughead designs an enormous sundae which Pop Tate builds, finishing it off with a key on top so that Jughead can close the shop when he's done eating it.
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Miscellaneous
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Movie News
Actor's life not all fun, says Cagney.
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Miscellaneous
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Twelve items of movie gossip
Tape A Chance!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Hey look! -- A dead-head at a live mike -- what's he up to?
Jughead records his lessons on tape and learns them by playing them while he sleeps. Reggie tries this trick by switching Jughead's tape with an old tape of crooner music. However, Jughead recorded History but Reggie was taking a Chemistry test. When he looks in on Jughead's History class, he sees that Jughead has the room of girls in a swoon by singing.
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FlagJughead's Double Digest #200 [Direct Edition] published April 2014
as Tape A Chance! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Credits from the reprinting in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #200. Early appearance of a Samm Schwartz background gag - black smoke is seen coming out of the cooking classroom on page 2.
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Fun Page
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Miscellaneous
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Includes two coloring activities, rearrangement of letters, drawing activity, and riddle.
Cat and Mouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
What's this I hear about you going to the cat show with Veronica?
Archie wants out of a date with Veronica to the Cat Show, so he takes advice from Jughead and makes her ashamed to be seen with him by making up his eye to look as if he's been in a fight. Reggie has overheard this trick and makes his eye up too, to avoid the Cat Show. In the end, Jughead is stuck going to the Cat Show with Veronica.
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FlagJughead's Double Digest #200 [Direct Edition] published April 2014
as Cat and Mouse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2.6
This is a rare instance of Jughead's clever ideas not turning out in his favor.

Credits from the reprint in Jughead's Double Digest (Archie, 1989 series) #200.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
Archie, the Pied Piper!
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FlagJughead's Double Digest #200 [Direct Edition] published April 2014
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Promo for Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) featuring Archie as the Pied Piper leading the gang to a comic book.

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