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Issue: Laugh Comics #57
Publication Date: June 1953
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Issues: #57 of 381 Issues (401 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An Archie Magazine Approved ReadingView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/16/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: I hear Veronica gave you kissproof lipstick for your birthday, Betty!
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The Phew-Gilists

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
First Line: Don't hold me back, Ronnie! I'll pulverise that pipsqueak!
Synopsis: Archie and Reggie have a boxing match.
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Pages: 5
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Ready soon! Archie Annual #5
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Annual (Archie, 1949 series) #5 with mail-in coupon. Cover is depicted, along with original art.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis
First Line: Sis! I'll teach you not to eat all of my candy--
Synopsis: Inspired by a newspaper story about a lost girl being given ice cream at the police station while awaiting her parents, Sis decides to run away for some ice cream of her own.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Katy's "candy stick" costume, pose, etc. by Judith Berauver (Knoxville, TN); Katy's dress by Sandra White (Seattle, WA); bed, spread and panties by Mary Beth Ayers (Pueblo, CO); Sis's candy cane lamp by Elaine Perricone (Brooklyn, NY); P.J.'s by Judy Gremmert (Walnut Grove, MN); Sis's curtains by Delores Mathes (Chicago 15, IL); Katy's davenport by Frank Korourek (San Francisco, CA); dress by Shirley Connelly (Yakima, WA); stole by Sheri Micheils (Miami, FL); Sis's outfit by Ronald Freimark (Dearborn, MI).

Sis places the Archie Annual in her pants to soften the blow of Katy's spanking. Final panel consists of Archie promoting the forthcoming Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #1.
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Muscle Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Slats Morgan; Laurie Lake; Red Wilson
First Line: Ooop! My compact rolled under the juke box!
Synopsis: After Slats lifts the jukebox for Laurie to retrieve her compact, Wilbur makes a bet that he can pull something outside in a wagon that Slats can't pull back in - Slats himself.
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Gadget-Tears

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: Holy cow! That's not a stove, it's an engineering miracle!
Synopsis: Betty is so enamored with her new stove's special features that she forgot to put the turkey in the oven.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Club membership with first-prize report from Celia Peller (Albany, NY) about her lending library of Archie Comics and second-prize report from Janice Griffin (Wichita Falls, TX) about her Swedish pen pal.
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Star Dirt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Oh-h-h Archie! We must go!
Synopsis: Jughead buys a ten-cent bracelet and sells it to Betty as a gypsy love-charm bracelet for $1, with plans to use the proceeds to attend the grand opening of the Riverdale Planetarium. When Archie tells Betty the source of her bracelet, Jughead sees stars - no planetarium required.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): From Hollywood
Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Alfred Hitchcock Puts 'Signature' On Suspense Film
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Raw Deal!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Suzie; Ferdie; Gregory Van Dripp; Suzie's father
First Line: You'll come, Ferdie? Wonderful!
Synopsis: Gregory buys Ferdie's date with Suzie for $25, only to find out that Suzie is leaving town and wanted Ferdie to come play cards with her father.
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Veronica Lodge
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Disclose Notes: Includes name the state (Texas), visual trick, coloring Veronica's gown, and drawing face. Veronica's gown by Patty Harold (Philadelphia 32, PA).
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Ginger Snapp; Jughead Jones; Suzie; Wilbur Wilkin; Super Duck; Katy Keene
First Line: If you see this trademark, it's got to be the best!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Comics publications. Character portraits seem to be pasted in from other stories instead of original art.
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Nurse to You!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Ginger Snapp; Bunny Clarke
First Line: Ohhhhhhh! A cold is bad enough!
Synopsis: Bunny pays a house call to an ill Ginger and tries to make her illness worse.
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Pages: 3
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French Wench

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
First Line: Reggie, have you seen Archie?
Synopsis: Archie leaves school covered in lipstick after saying something to Betty in French during their tutoring session.
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