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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
STORY DETAILS
Title:
A Star Is Born
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Michael Angelo; Tom
Synopsis:
Mr. Lodge's friend swindles him out of $2,000 with a worthless painting. Later the friend overhears Archie and Veronica talking about the Lodge's gardener Michael Angelo and jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Lodge has acquired a real Michelangelo and offers to buy it.
Pages:
8.000
Pencils:
Bill Vigoda ?
Title:
Date Deflate
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Fred Andrews; Helen
Synopsis:
Betty's new friend sees Archie and Veronica together and wants an introduction. Betty stalls because she doesn't want her gorgeous friend to catch Archie. She talks to Archie, who conceitedly agrees to meet the new girl in the park so Veronica won't know about it. Reggie overhears the conversation and rushes to tell Veronica. So the park meeting has an extra attendee, but also an unexpected conclusion.
Pages:
6.000
Pencils:
Bill Vigoda ?
Title:
So's Your Aunt Mathilda
Characters:
Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
Synopsis:
Betty can't get her handsome new neighbor to notice her. She tells Jughead her problem and he suggests that she write to "Aunt Mathilda's Advice to the Lovelorn" column.
Notes:
Credits from the index to the reprint in Archie's Comic Digest #41 (April 1980).
Title:
Un-faithfully Yours
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
Synopsis:
Veronica is out of town, so Archie decides to ask Betty to the dance. He brags that Betty won't go anywhere without him, but gets deflated by her way of accepting his invitation.
Pages:
1.000
Pencils:
Bill Vigoda
Title:
What's the Pitch?
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Coach Kleats; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Elmer Gangle
Synopsis:
No one on the baseball team can pitch. Coach Kleats wanders the hallways and finds a tall boy who is great throwing an apple core. Coach hustles him to baseball practice where he proves to be just as good with a baseball. Unfortunately, when Monday comes, the pitching phenom is not around.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
George Gladir
Pencils:
Samm Schwartz
Inks:
Samm Schwartz
Notes:
Credits from the reprint in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #19.
Synopsis:
Jughead wants Reggie to help him clean out a garage for half of $10. Reggie refuses, saying he needs to rest up for the party he's hosting that evening. At the party, Jughead suggests a scavenger hunt, and just happens to give party-goers clues for finding items in a certain garage.
Synopsis:
Shrimpy wants Peggy to watch the hole he's been digging, while he goes home. She wonders if someone is going to steal it.
Pages:
0.500
Script:
Joe Harold (credited)
Pencils:
Joe Harold (credited)
Inks:
Joe Harold (credited)
Notes:
Shrimpy responds to his mother calling "George Smith." The dark-haired girl with the ponytail is called Peggy.
Title:
The Whole Truth
Characters:
Shrimpy; Peggy
Synopsis:
Shrimpy says he's not digging a hole, he's making a hill.
Pages:
0.500
Script:
Joe Harold (credited)
Pencils:
Joe Harold (credited)
Inks:
Joe Harold (credited)
Notes:
A follow-up to the previous sequence.
Title:
Stars and Gripes
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis:
Archie wins a contest and gets a date with movie star Jane Bustle. He doesn't know who she is, but Mr. Weatherbee does, and says she was quite a beauty--after World War I. Since there is food involved, Archie is able to palm off the prize to Jughead, who ends up getting escorted by some lovely young ladies.
Synopsis:
Reggie tries to pull a mean trick on the new kid, Tuffy, when he thinks Jughead told him Tuffy was "stone deaf." What Jughead really said was "tone-deaf," meaning he couldn't tell one musical note from another.
Pages:
4.000
Pencils:
Bill Vigoda ?
Title:
Art for Moose Sake!
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Moose Mason
Synopsis:
Moose tries to paint a portrait of Midge, but has to stop when he runs out of paint.
Pages:
0.500
Title:
Help Wanted
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis:
Archie's father decides to stay overnight on a business trip. Later he feels guilty about leaving his wife and Archie alone and takes a midnight plane back home. When he gets home, he finds they are perfectly able to take care of themselves.
Pages:
2.000
Title:
Batter Up!
Characters:
Li'l Jinx
Synopsis:
When none of Jinx's friends can help her with batting practice, she results to using a pop-up toaster and toast as a substitute.
Synopsis:
Jughead pulls a gag on Archie and Reggie by running a yelling that Biff Bolsen is coming! After Archie and Reggie panic, they realize that there is no Biff Bolsen. To get even, they go to the seedy part of town and hire a thug to chase them and tell everyone that he's Biff Bolsen. The revenge gag almost works, except that "Biff" decides to insult Moose.
Pages:
6.000
Pencils:
Samm Schwartz ?
Title:
John Brown
Characters:
John Brown
Synopsis:
Brief biography of John Brown as the leader of the anti-slavery movement in Kansas and as the leader of the attack at Harper's Ferry in 1859.
Pages:
1.000
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Text with 1/3 page illustration.
Title:
Diet Riot
Characters:
Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge (cameo); Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis:
Mr. Weatherbee is ordered to go on a diet, with Miss Grundy in charge of seeing he stays on it. Mr. Weatherbee eventually becomes so obsessed with food that he steals items off the student's trays in the cafeteria at lunch.
Synopsis:
Moose comes up with some fractured logic to justify not studying for his exams.
Pages:
1.000
Title:
No Help Wanted
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate (cameo)
Synopsis:
Archie's father gets two tickets to the boxing match. Archie already has a date with Veronica for that night. Jughead tries to help, but after unsuccessfully talking to Veronica, goes to Archie's father and explains the situation. His father decides to give the tickets to Jughead. Meanwhile, Veronica has had a change of heart and decides to let Archie go to the fights. Jughead and Veronica then meet and decide that the only thing to do is use the tickets themselves.
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
2
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
2
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
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