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Issue: Archie Comics #48
Publication Date: January 1951
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Issues: #48 of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An Archie MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/20/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (5 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 Golden & Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: Betty, do you wanna spoon?
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Pages: 1
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You're Breaking My Art!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Fred Andrews
First Line: Archie, what are you trying to do ... rewrite history?
Synopsis: Archie decides to enter the school art contest, but since Veronica is not free to pose for a portrait, he decides to use Betty as a model and add Veronica's head. When Betty finds out, she vandalizes the painting, which ends up winning the contest for creativity.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes visual riddle, rebuses, how to make a flying wing, filling in missing word in common expressions, rhyming names, and making a canoe.
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The Big Shot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: What are your plans for our All Sports Nite, Coach?
Synopsis: Jughead beats Reggie in a boxing match--after he gets a triple dose of novocain!
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: Archie's Pal Jughead is here to stay!!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) announcing that the series has been popular enough to become a bimonthly publication.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
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 featuring first-prize report from Marion Caco (Cleveland 9, OH) and second-prize report from Barbara Ann Bordeaux (Niles, MI).
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Winter Blunderland

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Look, Pop! Snow!
Synopsis: Mr. Andrews battles with Archie, Mother Nature, and a police officer to keep his sidewalk clear of snow.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art previously thought to be Samm Schwartz, but it matches Vigoda's stories of the period.
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Disclose Notes: Includes drawing lesson and sudoku.
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Hot On Ice

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: You people can work up a sweat walking around the lake, I'm taking a short cut across the ice.
Synopsis: Reggie disregards Archie's warning about walking on thin ice and falls through.
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Disclose Notes: Berg places his signature in a real estate sign in the first panel (Lots for Sale: Berg).
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hollywood Tattle Tales
First Line: Going To Dinner Made a Star Of David Brian
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Disclose Notes: Archie (Hollywood report)
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Disclose Notes: Includes connect-the-dots and maze.
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Ice Follies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Miss Hybarr (introduction)
First Line: Archie! Why aren't you out there playing ice hockey like a man instead of just sitting there?
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee attempts to teach Archie how to play ice hockey.
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Pages: 6.67
Disclose Notes: Art previously thought to be Samm Schwartz, but it matches Vigoda's stories of the era.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Fauntleroy
First Line: Extra! Extra! Extra!
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Promo for Fauntleroy Comics (Archie, 1950 series) featuring newsboy announcing the issue.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
First Line: The Three Mirthqueteers
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie, Reggie, and Jughead stories, appearing in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series), Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series), and Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series). Drawings of each character appear to be taken from stories.
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The Christmas Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Santa Claus; Roscoe (introduction); Ichabod (introduction); Nutzy Mutz (introduction)
First Line: In the hearts and minds of men, there'll always be a Santa Claus!
Synopsis: Hoping to see an act of selflessness among the younger generation, Santa looks in on Riverdale using his "Santavision" TV. There, he watches as Archie sells his jalopy when Betty loses the money collected by their class for a Christmas party.
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Pages: 8

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