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Issue: Laugh Comics / Laugh #56
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/19/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Starting with this issue, Laugh Comics adopts a looser format, with more shorter stories and fewer regular features. While Katy Keene, Wilbur, Ginger, and Suzie will continue for now, when they end they will not be replaced with another regular feature -- instead, they will be replaced by stories featuring Archie supporting characters.

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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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teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
How do you like Veronica's figure eight, Arch?
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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Wilbur Wilkin; Ginger Snapp; Katy Keene; Super Duck; Suzie; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
You don't need a rocket ship for something that's out of this world, gang!
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Promo for Archie Comics magazines featuring various characters riding a rocket ship. Headshots of characters appear to be pasted in from stories instead of original drawings.
Socktical Illusion

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humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate
Hey! Aren't you gals going to stop off for a soda?
Betty and Veronica practice fighting to prepare for a big sale.
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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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Promo for Archie Club membership with first-prize report from Marilyn Jones (Orlando, FL) about poetry hobby and second-prize report from Carol Eliers (Atlanta, GA) about returning a baby bird to its nest.
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Archie Andrews
What's my line?
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Promo for Archie Comics publications in which Archie appears in the style of the game show "What's My Line?"
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, informational
Katy Keene; Randy Van Ronson III; Randolph Van Ronson II
This short story begins in the Van Ronson's Winter Lodge at Lake Arrowhead--
Randy uses his father's trick of placing a phony "thin ice" sign on the lake so that Katy will skate too close and fall into his arms.
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Katy's pose, costume, scenery, etc. by Alla Crossi (Petaluma, CA); ski suit by Linda Gutknight (Poland, OH); Mr. Van Ronson's togs by Mary Harriet Vaughn (North Augusta, SC); Randy's sweater by Celeste Erwin (Watertown, NY); Katy's skating dress by Kay Bergerson (Silverton, OR); shoes by Geraldine Houlihan (Utica, NY); pheasant by Bruce C. Pratt (Maumee, OH); pipe by Otto Pelch (Santa Barbara, CA).
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informational
Katy Fashions
Katy Keene
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Fashions by Michele King (Margate City, NJ); Harlean Hilderman (Yorktown, Saskatchewan); Barbara Balch (Utica, NY); Beatrice Coker (Hot Springs, AR); Rose Courtright (Appin, Ontario); Rosetta Pryor (Caldwell, KS); and Mary Joyce (Chicago, IL). Also includes note on how to order the new Katy Keene pin-up and cutout outfit set #2. Page is numbered 6, indicating it was intended to be paired with a five-page Katy Keene story.
Katy Keene Jokes

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humorous
Katy Keene; Sis; Randy Van Ronson III
So! That's how you dry our clothes, eh, Katy?
Katy dries her clothes using a lasso; Randy proposes to a hungry Katy; Katy trips as a skating carhop waitress; Katy seeks a man at a military supply store.
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Series of four individually signed one-panel gags. Readers encouraged to send jokes to Bill Woggon, with selected writers receiving autographed pin-up of Katy.

Cowboy outfit on Sis by Linda Gill (Arcadia, CA); Katy's outfit and pose by Jana Felts (Fisk, TX); Katy's dress by Verna M. Kendall (Rochelle, IL); Katy's car-hop outfit by Miss Bobby Ann Steed (Baldwin Park, CA); Katy's outfit by Mary Anne Rushine (Santa Monica, CA).
Watch the Birdies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, teen
Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Red Wilson
It's swell of you, Laurie to be my model!
Wilbur tries to convince Red to get interested in his photography hobby. While trying to shoot a nature scene for a photography contest, Wilbur gets chased by a bull, which Red captures in the winning picture.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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childrens, humorous
Dubble Bubble Gum
Pud; Sis
If you make this jump, you win the event, Pud-
Pud uses Fleer's Dubble Bubble gum to set a high jump record.
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Ad in comic form.
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Archie Comics
Archie Andrews (cameo); Reggie Mantle (cameo); Betty Cooper (cameo); Veronica Lodge (cameo); Ginger Snapp (cameo); Jughead Jones (cameo); Super Duck (cameo); Suzie (cameo); Wilbur Wilkin (cameo); Katy Keene (cameo)
If you see this trademark, it's got to be the best!
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Promo for Archie titles with head shots of the characters surrounding a large version of the "An Archie Magazine Approved Reading" brand. Character portraits seem to be pasted in from other stories instead of original art. Ginger is incorrectly colored with blonde hair.
Odd Man Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, teen
Laurie Lake; Wilbur Wilkin; Red Wilson; Linda Moore; Slats Morgan
Hold up, Laurie!
Red has the idea to play odd man out to determine who will give up a seat in Wilbur's car to make room for Laurie, and Wilbur ends up getting kicked out of his own car.
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Turn on the Eat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, teen
Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Forsythe Jones
Jughead, you only had three sodas, four fudge sundaes, and a double banana split!
Archie bets Reggie that there's nothing edible that Jughead wouldn't eat. They arrive at the Jones house and discover that Jughead has just accidentally ate wallpaper paste and a taxidermy fish.
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Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Look! Big news!
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Advertisement for Jughead Annual and Betty and Veronica Annual.
The Rearing Twenties

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teen
Ginger Snapp; Ickky Jones; Mr. Snapp
Don't quiz me, Quincy, I'm no Wesbter!
Ginger's father is fed up with the new lingo the kids use and wishes they just spoke English until they throw a Roaring Twenties party complete with the fashions and slang of his youth.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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From Hollywood
Archie Andrews
Red-Headed Gals Warmer Than Brunette Sisters
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Archie is pictured at a typewriter and there are multiple small stories about Hollywood film gossip.
The Perfect Lamb

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humorous, teen
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Waldo Weatherbee
Don't be silly, Veronica, Mr. Weathebee will never give me the afternoon off from school!
Mr. Weatherbee responds like a perfect lamb when Betty asks for the afternoon off: he says "Baaa!"
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Batter-ed Up!

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humorous, teen
Reggie Mantle; Coach Kleats
What makes you think I can use you on the baseball field?
Reggie tries out for the baseball team.
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Antenna Antics

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humorous, teen
Suzie; Ferdie; Gregory Van Dripp
Of course you can watch the comedy show on my T.V. set tonight!
Ferdie disconnects Suzie's T.V. antenna so he can pretend to fix the T.V. set.
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Your Choice 4 for $1

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure, drama, humorous
Adventure Book Club
Ad for a children's book club.
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New, Amazing Offer - Now Easy to Own a Typewriter

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Remington Portable Typewriter
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Remington Portable Typewriter for $87.65

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