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Issue: Suzie Comics #85
Publication Date: February 1952
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Issues: #85 of 52 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An Archie MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/19/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; later Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Suzie; restaurant manager; customer
First Line: Suzie, are you sure you've had experience at flipping flapjacks?
Synopsis: Once again Suzie's latest job requires more physical dexterity than she's capable of.
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Ginger Snapp; Reggie Mantle; Wilbur Wilkin; Suzie; Super Duck; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Katy Keene
First Line: The all-American newsstand!! Because all America is buying the Archie comic group!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Comics publications featuring Archie at newsstand surrounded by issues of each title.
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Throne For A Loss!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Ferdie; Angela; Gregory Van Dripp
First Line: Have you heard about the big roller skating contest, Ferdie?
Synopsis: Suzie wants Ferdie to babysit Angela so she can enter a roller skating competition with Gregory. Angela suggests that she and Ferdie go enter the competition on their own.
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Pages: 6
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A Kick In The Plans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Suzie's father
First Line: What're you doing, Dad?
Synopsis: Suzie's father is on vacation and determined not to do anything during that vacation. However, that means Suzie has to do all of the household chores.
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Suzie Fun Page
First Line: How To Make A Doll Bed
Synopsis: How to make a doll bed out of a wicker basket, plus riddles.
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
First Line: Love will find a way!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (Archie, 1950 series) featuring Archie climbing a cliff to reach Veronica as Betty watches.
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Information Please

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Angela
First Line: Suzie, what makes rain?
Synopsis: Angela peppers Suzie with questions about life.
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Pages: 1
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White In The Night

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Ferdie
First Line: Hi, Suzie, it's a lovely night, let's go for a walk.
Synopsis: Ferdie learns the hard way why it's a good idea to wear white when walking at night.
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Take It Easel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Ginger Snapp; Mr. Snapp
First Line: Oh nuts! That's the third one this week!
Synopsis: Ginger convinces her father to take up painting as a hobby, with disastrous results.
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Pages: 4.67
Disclose Notes: Art previously thought to be Harry Sahle, but it matches Schwartz's other stories in the issue.
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First Line: Read Laugh 'cause the world reads Laugh with you!
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) featuring a globe laughing while reading an issue.
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Out Of Sorts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Suzie's father
First Line: Why certainly, Gladys, I'd be glad to help you...
Synopsis: Suzie helps her friend sort strawberries over the phone.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Suzie's Movie Diary
Character(s): Suzie
First Line: Star Silenced By Too Much Screaming
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustration of Suzie writing in her diary added with this issue. Archie Comics added an illustrated heading to its Hollywood articles across titles around this time.
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Nurse To You

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Ferdie; Uncle Blunderbuss
First Line: See you later, Uncle Blunderbuss! I'm going to visit Suzie at the hospital!
Synopsis: After hearing another one of Uncle Blunderbuss's tall tales about his surgical operation on the Maharajah of Kalamazoo, Ferdie goes to visit Suzie at her new job as a nursing attendant at the local hospital. There, he falls asleep and dreams that he falls at the hospital and has Uncle Blunderbuss as a surgeon.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: "Blunderbuss" is spelled with one 'S' in this story. Plot and portions of script adapted as the Jughead story "Operation Nightmare" in Archie's Pal Jughead Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #7.
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A Miss In The Dark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Ferdie
First Line: It's sure dark in here!
Synopsis: Suzie and Ferdie take a Tunnel Of Love ride, but someone else ends up kissing Suzie.
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Feature(s): Suzie Puzzle Page
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Includes match your wits, peanut man activity, optical illusion, and name the state.
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A Long Dog Tale

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Katy Keene; Randy Van Ronson III; Sis
First Line: Our story opens at the Randolph Van Ronson's 10,000 Acre Ranch in Santa Ynez Valley in California...
Synopsis: Katy thinks Randy is entertaining a beautiful French model.
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Pages: 6.5
Disclose Notes: Katy's costume and pose by Marjorie McMaster (Tyler, TX); smart argyle on dachshund by Lida Jancar (Arcadia, CA); cowboy outfits by Carole L. Grover (Fredonia, NY); hat designed by Betty Hazelett (Tampa 4, FL); Randy's outfit by Mary Persons (Roxbury 19, Boston, MA); lounging P.J.'s by Gail Henry (Rochester 11, NY); dog tail car by Carrol Brandon (Lennox, CA); lollypop dress and bracelet by Trudy Holz (Paterson, NJ).
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Super Duck
First Line: You kids be the judge!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring judge handing Super Duck a paper reading "Best Award for 1952."
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Don't Let It Puzzle You!
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Disclose Notes: Includes rebus, sudoku puzzle, and making animal shadows on wall.
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First Line: Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! That Wilbur is so funny, he kills me --- he's always getting into hot water!
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring explorer about to be boiled alive by stereotypical African tribe while reading an issue of Wilbur.
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Off Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Suzie; Suzie's father; Angela; Suzie's mother; Ferdie
First Line: Get that kid outta here!
Synopsis: Suzie's father's day off is anything but restful.
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Pages: 6
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Suzie Fun Page
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Includes drawing hippo, fill-in-the-blanks, and riddles on parade.

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