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Issue: Laugh Comics / Laugh #49
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Rating: [no rating]
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/19/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Archie! In this problem, you have the principal, the rate, and the time - but where's your interest?
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Miscellaneous
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Archie Andrews
The All-American Newsstand!!
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Promo for Archie Comics magazines featuring Archie as a newsstand worker surrounded by Archie titles. Inside front cover.
Time to Retire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, teen
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Dilton Doiley; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy
Gee! This is interesting!
Archie decides to hold an auction to benefit the teachers' retirement fund. While removing the frame from a portrait of Riverdale founder Joshua Rivers, he finds a treasure map and the gang goes digging.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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informational
Katy Keene; Sis; Randy Van Ronson III; Skipper Mason
I'm all through shopping so let's go home, Sis!
Katy, Sis, and Skipper Mason attend a roller skating contest.
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Miscellaneous
7.67
Katy's skating pose, etc. by Daisy Mae Harlamert (Upton, KY); costume also designed by Marilyn Newquist (Brockton 7, MA) and Iverne Carpenter (Vandling, PA); Katy's suit by William Beck (Tucson, AZ); Sis' outfit by Kay Anita Pritchett (Munford, TN); Katy's hat and bag and shoes by Marlene Gran (Chicago 24, IL); skating costume by Burniece Driggers (Daytona Beach, FL); costume by Donna Wright (Lindsay, CA); Randy's plaid jacket by Joann Bock (North Haven, CT); horse tie by Scott Fleming (Santa Barbara, CA); negligee by Carole Broncy (San Angelo, TX); Sis's bed pillow by Vichie Scarlato (Bridgehampton, NY); Sis's skating outfit by Leona Cleveland (Dewey, OK) and Darla Evans (Amarillo, TX); Katy's skating clothes by Peggy Sloan (Greenbrier, TN), Betty Jeon Wetzsteon (Corvallis, MT), and Judith Boncyk (Lafayette, IN).
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Katy Keene; Sis; K.O. Kelly
Look! You can send for these Katy, Sis and K.O. pin-ups...
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Promo for pin-up sets of Katy, Sis, and K.O. Kelly.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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informational
Katy Fashions
Katy Keene
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Miscellaneous
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Designs by Jean Sato (Denver, CO), Raymond Navarro (Sonora, AZ), Margaret Lloyd (San Angelo, TX), Jervis Hill (La Salle, IL), Ann Avalon Hill (Hopkinsville, KY), Linda Fashee (Nashville, AR), Pat Hauser (Seattle 55, WA), Judith Payson (Hallowell, ME), Eleanor Cohen (Dorchester, MA), Marilyn Zick (no address on design), Susie Garralt (Poughkeepsie 28, PA), and Charlotte Bates (Cincinnati 19, OH).
A Nose for News

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason
Quit a cute chick!
Jughead gets offered a modeling gig, but it turns out the ad agency wants to use his nose for a cold medicine ad.
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Miscellaneous
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Typo in first line.
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Laugh Puzzle Page
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Includes proverb rebus (old as the hills), rebuses for home furniture, rebus for tree, and riddles on parade.
Yes, My Darling Daughter!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, teen
Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Commodore Lake
It's true, girls! Not one boy has asked Laurie out on a date, in a month!!!
Laurie asks her father to be nicer to her boyfriends so they aren't scared to ask for dates, but Commodore Lake's change of heart means that Wilbur is too busy being friends with Laurie's father to date Laurie.
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Miscellaneous
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Archie Fun Page
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Includes party fun trick, riddles on parade, fill in the blanks, and do you know.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Archie Andrews
Tell ya what a'hm gonna do!
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Promo for Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) featuring Archie as a salesman promoting the series.
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Don't Let It Puzzle You
Archie Andrews
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Miscellaneous
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Includes coloring page, riddles on parade, word ladder (calf to bell), and music quiz.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Super Duck
Kids! Don't be stung by imitations or inferior comics.
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Promo for Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series).
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
From Hollywood
Archie Andrews
Steve Cochran Not Awarded "Colonelcy"
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Miscellaneous
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Don't Let It Puzzle You
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Includes making tin can roller and copying drawing of kangaroo.
Danger Men at Work

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Debby Twist; Lotta Twist; Oliver Twist; Honey; Betsy Ross; Virgil Gooney
Baby sittin' is a cinch ... all you have to do is give the child something to do!
Debby and her father babysit for the troublemaking Deal children.
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Miscellaneous
8
Debby's jumper and blouse by Ruth Wood (Hackensack, NJ); Debby's wallet by Angelique de Brebeuf (New York, NY); Debby's outfit by Beth Christopher (Greenville, RI); Debby's mother's dress and apron by Zlata Daniel (Yonkers, NY); formal by Bobbye Fowler (Richland, WA); bracelet by Mary Cutroni (Worcester, MA); Betsy's outfit by Sally Hetland (Camarillo, CA); Debby's sweater and skirt by Ann Gordon (Rochelle, GA); Debby's coat by Yvonne Rice (Grand Rapids, MI).
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Archie Andrews
Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!
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Miscellaneous
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Promo for Archie Club membership with first-prize report from Jeanette Shafer (New York 21, NY) and second-prize report by Annette Benjamin (Belmont, NY).
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Suzie; Suzie's father; Ferdie; Gregory Van Dripp; Uncle Blunderbuss
Suzie "the dreamboat special" is docked again at your favorite newsstand!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Promo for Suzie Comics (Archie, 1945 series) featuring an anthropomorphic globe dreaming of a giant Suzie riding a U.S.S. Suzie boat.

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