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Issue: Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #197
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/04/2012
Volume: none
Pages: 164
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UPC/EAN: 76281646950019711
Price: $3.99 USD
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Content Items: 67 (38 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Gorelick (editor-in-chief)
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Color: color
Dimensions: digest
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: ongoing series
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
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Angelo Decesare (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Mr. Lodge tries to break Betty and Veronica's texting habit.
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Betty and Veronica Friends Forever
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Veronica
Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Veronica reads her school composition to her father.
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Home Alone?

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Betty
Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Nancy
Betty is going to stay home alone while her parents go bowling.
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Ginger Lopez; Unnamed phone operator
Veronica, Betty and Archie play the call waiting game.
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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
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Archie
Hiram Lodge; Smithers; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
When I was young...
Mr. Lodge is no longer surprised by any of Archie's stupid stunts.
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Mike Pellowski (credited)
Jeff Shultz (credited)
Al Milgrom (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
Jon D'Agostino (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Pop Tate; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
On a ski weekend, Veronica travels to the resort by limo while Betty travels by bus.
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Betty's Hideaway

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Veronica Pin Up
Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
With all your millions...
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A Working Model

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Barbara Slate (credited)
Dan DeCarlo (credited)
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Veronica
Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Mr. Huxter; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
When Mr. Lodge tells Veronica to earn some money to support her lavish spending, Veronica applies for a job with a modeling agency.
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What Are Friends for?

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Kathleen Webb (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Celeste; Hiram Lodge; Hermione Lodge; Archie Andrews
There is a big dance but Betty doesn't have money to go. Veronica helps her out on the condition that Betty doesn't take Archie to the dance.
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The Bowl Game

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George Gladir (credited)
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Al Milgrom (credited)
Barry Grossman (credited)
Bill Yoshida (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Smithers; Hiram Lodge; Tabby
Betty gives Veronica a goldfish and she thinks her cat, Tabby ate him.
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The Throw Must Go On!

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Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Kevin; Joe; Mr. Davis
Veronica gets even with two boys who threw snowballs at her.
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Patience Is Not Her Virtue!

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Kathleen Webb (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Givens; Archie Andrews
Betty tries to teach Veronica to have patience.
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Henry Scarpelli (signed)
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
Okay, I've got all my equipment...
Archie hurts himself in a skiing simulator
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Borrow Sorrow

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Dan DeCarlo
Dan DeCarlo
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Archie
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Glen
Archie's school buddy Glen feels no shame about borrowing everything Archie has.
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Ginger
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Harry Lucey
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Ginger; Bunny Clarke; Patsy
Ginger tries to start a new fad by wearing her dad's suspenders with her skirt.
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Ginger; Ickky
Ginger's tropical fish remind her of Ickky.
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Ginger; Ickky
Ickky should use both hands while driving.
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Ginger; Ickky
Ginger's father tires of Ickky's "bop" slang.
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Ginger
Ginger is shopping for a watch for her father.
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Ginger; Ickky; Tommy
Tommy tries to out-do Ickky.
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Ginger; Ickky; Tommy; Thorny
Iccky makes a home-made dinner for Ginger but she's on a diet.
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Veronica thinks she has seen Archie buying Betty a present.
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Betty gets Veronica to imagine she is on a tropical island.
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Veronica
Veronica Lodge; Ted James; Hiram Lodge; Todd James
Veronica tries to help decorate for the school dance but ends up knocking Ted off a ladder and sending him to the hospital.
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Krista; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy
Krista, an exchange student from Norway, has problems with the idioms the gang uses.
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Sabrina
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Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Harvey
The more Hilda tries to be nice to Harvey, the worse she fares.
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Bodyguard

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Dick Malmgren (credited)
Dick Malmgren (credited)
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Sabrina
Sabrina; Harvey; Ambrose
Harvey warns Sabrina not to enter the bad part of town.
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Lunch Time

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Aunt Hilda
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Mike Pellowski (credited)
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Betty
Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Betty and her father discuss old sitcoms and how some of the Archie gang could have played roles in them.
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews; "King"; King's manager
Unable to get tickets to the sold out concert featuring "King", Betty and Veronica impersonate maids to gain access to their favorite recording artist's hotel room.
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The Fame Game

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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Veronica meets with local newspaper reporters for a piece on her figure skating but the reporters are more interested in Betty's teaching snowboarding to local kids.
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Betty's Gag Bag
Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper
Betty! You've been talking for an hour!
Betty's father thinks she talks on the phone too much.
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Katy Keene #12

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Katty Keene; K.O.
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Katy Keene; Danny; Gloria; Errol Swoon
Danny calls to Katy...
Gloria tries to take Katy's movie role.
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A Cat Tale

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Katy Keene; Sis; Skipper Mason
Skipper shows Katy and Sis a talking cat.
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Katy Keene Gets a Big Laugh

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Katy Keene; K.O.; Gloria; Chubby; Sis
Katy goes shopping for a new dress but everybody laughs at it.
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The Best of Archie Comics
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The Write Stuff

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Kathleen Web (credited)
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Betty's Diary
Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Miss Grundy
Betty discovers she has a talent at writing.
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The Archie Babies
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At a Disadvantage

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Mike Pellowski (credited)
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Betty and Veronica
Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones
Betty and Veronica tell Archie they are not dating him anymore until he can pay for the dates. Archie then takes a job delivering phone books.
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Trait Fate

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Reggie
Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
Jughead is learning ventriloquism.
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News Muse

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Reggie
Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Archie missed the bus and can't join the gang.
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Pro-Skate

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Veronica
Veronica Lodge
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Mike Pellowski (credited)
Bob Bolling (credited)
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Barry Grossman (credited)
Pat Owsley (credited)
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Betty
Betty Cooper
Betty volunteers at the library reading stories to children and wears herself out.
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Subscribe Today
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Everything's Archie
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