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Issue: Archie Annual #1
Publication Date: January 1950
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Issues: #1 of 26 Issues (31 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/27/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 116
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 24 (17 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US, latter issues standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
First Line: To read this letter...
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Archie Andrews]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: It's a great thrill for me to write you this personal letter, because I feel that I know a great many of you.
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Notes to You!

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Inker(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Mrs. Cooper; George Cooper
First Line: Hi, Archie! Going to the dance, tonight?
Synopsis: When Archie passes up Betty to talk to Veronica, Betty gets mad and writes him a poison pen letter.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Betty's father is named George in this story.
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Gym Dandy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Coach Kleats; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mrs. Lodge; Mr. Lodge [John Lodge]
First Line: You wanted to see me, Mr. Weatherbee!
Synopsis: When the gym falls apart Archie organizes a dance to raise money to build a new gym.
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Pages: 9
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The Battle of the Rattle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
First Line: May I borrow your car, Archiekins? I'm supposed to pick up my little cousin today and both our cars are busy--
Synopsis: Archie tries to fix a rattling noise after he loans his father's car to Veronica.
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Who's Zoo?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
First Line: You? A job at the zoo?
Synopsis: Jughead's working at the zoo and accidentally lets a monkey loose.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: What makes Archie lead the field?
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) featuring anthropomorphic issue jumping hurdle that reads "Millions of Sales."
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Feature(s): Archie Puzzle Fun
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: Can you arrange the digits 1 through 9 in the empty squares shown above so that the combined numbers will add to exactly 15 in the six rows indicated by the arrows.
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Disclose Notes: Three activities, arrange the numbers, connect the dots, and turn lead into gold.
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Stop! You're Breaking My Glass

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Archie, would you ask Pop Tate to add a little more soda water in here? It's too sweet.
Synopsis: Pop loses his customers after banning Archie from the Chok'lit Shop for accidentally breaking too many glasses.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Earliest appearance of Pop Tate resembling his current character model. Previous appearances depicted Tate as a skinny, older man with gray hair and a mustache. Here, he is taller, heavyset, and bald. Bob Montana would use this model in Tate's earliest known newspaper strip appearance on May 2, 1950. Both models would be seen interchangeably in Archie stories as this model was phased in.
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The Rug Cutter!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mr. Cooper; Fred Andrews
First Line: Let's go for a little ride, Betty! We can decide which movie we want to see tonight!
Synopsis: Betty can't go to the movies with Archie until she does some chores around the house, and Archie decides to help.
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First Line: Oh boy! Will you have extra pep if you read Pep Comics
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) featuring boy energetically racing to newsstand.
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The Mystery Finger

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Archie Puzzle Page
Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Disclose Notes: An illusion and a word building puzzle.
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No Soap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
First Line: I hate to interrupt you, children with your homework -- but is the new laundromat open in town? -- I have two huge bundles to go on the back porch--
Synopsis: Archie and Betty decide to wash and dry the clothes Archie's mom wanted taken to the laundromat.
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The Pin-Up

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Mr. Brown; Mrs. Brown; Charles Augustus Brown; Archie Andrews
First Line: That's what I said, Archie -- I'm baby-sitting at the Browns' tonight!
Synopsis: Jughead is babysitting and he thinks the baby has swallowed a pin.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Santa Claus
First Line: Hey, kids! Look!
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Annual #1 encouraging readers to buy an additional copy as a Christmas or birthday gift for someone.
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The Bugaboo Buster!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
First Line: Hi, Veronica!
Synopsis: When Veronica decides to hold a hard luck party for Friday the 13th, Archie experiences a run of bad luck, only for Veronica to find out that it's actually Thursday the 12th.
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No Pool Like an Old Pool

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Mr. Cooper
First Line: Hi, Archie! Want to go for a swim?
Synopsis: It's winter so Archie decides to set up an indoor pool in the attic to swim in.
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The Little Squirt

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee
First Line: Hey, Egghead! Want to see my new picture ring?
Synopsis: Archie keeps accidentally squirting Mr. Weatherbee with various liquids.
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What Makes Jughead Run?

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mr. Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Coach -- do you mean to say our track team doesn't stand a chance in tomorrow's inter-high school half mile race?
Synopsis: In need of a runner for the upcoming race, Coach Kleats sends scouts around Riverdale, one of whom finds Jughead running away from a baseball game where he broke a window. Once he discovers the reason for Jughead's speed, he places a receiver in Jughead's hat during the race and blackmails him into winning the race for Riverdale.
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Disclose Notes: One of several similar stories from this era in which Jughead becomes Coach Kleats' unlikely savior in a given sport, including boxing (Archie Comics #40), baseball (Laugh Comics #35), and wrestling (Pep Comics #76).
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Nifty Fifty

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: "Hi, Archiekins!" Veronica called.
Synopsis: Archie finds a wallet with a fifty dollar bill in it.
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Knights to You

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge
First Line: This museum is too spooky, Arch... what are we hanging around all this dead stuff for?
Synopsis: Archie and Jughead go to the museum and Archie puts on a suit of armor.
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Fat's the Spirit

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Fred F. Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Coach Kleats
First Line: Hey, Archie, look! A new kid -- just moved in next door!
Synopsis: After making fun of an overweight teen moving into the neighborhood, Archie is knocked unconscious by a lamp falling out of the moving truck and dreams of suddenly becoming overweight, helping him become more sensitive to making fun of others' appearances.
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Disclose Notes: "Samm's Furniture Moving" logo on truck in splash page, a reference to artist Samm Schwartz.
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My Job Is Your Job

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mrs. Best; Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Sullivan; Mrs. Holley; Fifi; Mrs. Lee
First Line: Jughead! I've been looking all over for you! Lend me five bucks!
Synopsis: Archie needs to earn five bucks to take Veronica out so he has Jughead line up jobs for him to do.
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Disclose Notes: The Mrs. Jones in this story is not Jughead's mother.
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There's a Patch to It!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Dilbert Doiley [Dilton Doiley]; Mr. Weatherbee
First Line: Well girls, the Patch Hop is here again! As you know the rules are that a girl has to put a patch on the boy she wants to take her to the dance!
Synopsis: There's a patch hop on tonight and Archie wants to avoid being patched by anyone but Veronica.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Dilton is called Dilbert in this story. While a character named Dilbert had appeared in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #34, this story marks the first use of the "Doiley" surname. The Dilton Doiley character had already debuted in the Archie newspaper strip dated February 16, 1948, albeit with the surname spelled "Doily."

Archie reveals his birth month as December.

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