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Issue: Laugh Comics #61
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Rating: [no rating]
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/15/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 21 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Betty, you have brains! You'll go to the head of the class!
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Car Hop

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Archie! You better just pour oil on that jalopy, and burn it --- you're dead!
Reggie wins a midget hot rod in a contest and it attracts all the girls. Veronica decides that she wants to ride with Reggie instead of Archie. Betty remains loyal to Archie and he says he'll just let her ride in his car. Reggie wrecks his hot rod and fickle Archie wants to drive Veronica again. Betty says it will be over his dead body.
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Kiss 'n' Kill!

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humorous
Ginger Snapp; Ickky Jones
Oboy! Pucker up!
Ginger kisses Ickky just as a baseball flies through an open window and ricochets around the room.
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Re-Covered Fumble

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humorous, teen
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Baby doll!
Betty tries a complete make-over in order to get Archie to notice her. It's such a big change that Archie doesn't recognize her.
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Wilbur Wilkin; Red Wilson; Slats Morgan; Laurie Lake
For a king-size laugh...buy Wilbur Comics
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Promo for Wilbur Comics. Very small version of the cover to #52 is depicted, along with original art.
Whistle Stopped!

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humorous
Ginger Snapp; Patsy
Here she comes gang!
The boys hang around the school entrance and whistle at Ginger when she comes out.
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Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Repeat performance!
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Promo for Jughead Annual #2 and Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #2, with a mail-in coupon for ordering one or both for 25 cents each. Covers are depicted, along with original art.
Time Marches Back!

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humorous, teen
Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Linda Moore; Red Wilson; Miss Gargle
Last night was the first time, I really enjoyed doing my history homework!
Miss Gargle has the class write a composition through the eyes of someone in history.
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From Hollywood
Archie Andrews (heading)
Gary Cooper Relishes All Foreign Foods
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Gossip about current and upcoming movies. Stars mentioned include Gary Cooper, Lee Asker, Martha Hyer, Barbara Stanwyck, and Jane Wyman.
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March of Dimes
Join the March of Dimes
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All text announcement for the March of Dimes, showing a calendar for January and listing the campaign dates of January 2 to 31.
Clear as Mud

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
Ginger Snapp; Miss Take; Mr. Hummingbird
Gulp! The principal wants to see my composition!
Miss Take sends Ginger to the principal because of her sloppy homework.
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Dubble Bubble; Fleer
Pud; Sis; Tim
Let's hurry-We'll make the native village by nightfall-
Pud, Sis, and Tim are exploring the jungle. They find a tribe of pygmies who like bubble gum as much as they do.
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Ad in comic format for Dubble Bubble chewing gum. Frank H. Fleer Corp, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Archie Club
Archie Andrews (cameo)
Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!
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Promo for joining the Archie Club with mail-in coupon. Cost is 10 cents. Also first prize of $5.00 to Joycelyn Chong (Honolulu, HI) for paragraph on her school supporting homeless children in other countries. Second prize of $3.00 to Luanne Davis (Clint, Texas) for a paragraph on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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humorous, informational
Katy Keene; Sis; Danny O'Connel
Katy! Will you come down to the studio for some publicity pictures?
Katy takes Sis along on a studio photo shoot. The photographer has Katy say cheese before each photo, which makes Sis very hungry.
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Katy's pose, negligee, pin-up board, etc. by Rosemary Abbinanti (Chicago 36, Ill.); negligee, pose, and dressing table by Janet Witbroot (St. Louis 16, Mo.); undies and pose by Jean Kuratkowska (Toledo 7, Ohio); Katy's outfit by Vanda Nigels (Dunedin, Fla.); harem costume and pose by Andrew Robinson (no address); pose and costume by Margie Pietsch (Forest Grove, Ore); pose, swim suit, and hairdo by Lois Peebles (Decatur, Ill.); dress by Claudia Smith (Struthers, OH); Puritan costume, pose, etc. and pose, costume, and cake by Dolores Armacost (New Richmond, Ohio).
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Archie's Pals 'n' Gals
Archie Andrews
Good news!
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Reminder that there are still copies of Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Annual available for 25 cents each from the publisher.
Sport Fashions for Katy and Gloria

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Katy Keene; Gloria Grandbilt
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Two paper dolls with various outfits. Fashions, etc., by Mary Ann Kusko (Lenington, Pa.), Carol-Ann McNair (Little Rock, Ark.), Edna May Baunbarner (Maryland), Doris Coppola (Valley Steam, N.Y.), Mercedes Gonzales (Tampa, Fla.), Joan Katri (Ferndale, Calif.), Phyllis Jean Lott (Folkston, Ga.), Shirley Sue Hartley (El Paso, Texas), Jane Allen (Fresno, Calif.), Dolores Amacosy (New Richmond, Ohio), Kathleen Whelan (Westahaven, Conn.), Judy Marcil (Waterbury, Conn.), Melba Fairbairn (Ogdensburg, N.Y.), Connie Jurczak (Johnson City, N.Y.), and Howie Dawson (San Francisco, Calif.).
Man of the Hour

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Wilbur Wilkin; Laurie Lake; Miss Gargle
That's Wilbur Wilkin --- the first man to fly to the moon, all by himself!!
Wilbur daydreams about all the honors he can win in the future, then gets a rude awakening with his score on a test.
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Lucky Stiff!

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Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Lottie Little
Hi, fellas!
Moose demonstrates on Jughead the treatment he'll give any other boy talking to his girlfriend Lottie.
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Ginger Snapp
What's the recipe for Ginger Comics?
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Promo for Ginger Comics (Archie, 1951 series) with a cooking theme.
The Slow Shirker

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humorous, teen
Red Wilson; Miss Gargle; Mr. Dripwaite; Wilbur Wilkin
Miss Gargle, why isn't Red working on the school garden project like the other students?
Red spends his time sitting under a tree while the other students are working on a school garden project.
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Prize Package

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Suzie; Ferdie; Angela
Angela! For the last time - I want you to eat that bowl of Krispy Rice Flakes!
Suzie tells Angela that eating Krispy Rice Flakes will make her pretty and smart. Ferdie arrives and says he's been eating them for years. Angela throws the box of cereal out the window, saying she doesn't want to look like him.
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