Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1953-09-11
Editing: John L. Goldwater (editor); Harry Shorten (managing editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #65 Edit Cover
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Archie / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Jughead! Hydrogen plus oxygen equals water! Can you give me another example of a chemical change?
Characters:
Miss Grundy; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
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Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Atomic Fishin'
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Archie / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Oh, you'd better not come over today, Archie! Daddy's in a terrible mood, and it certainly won't improve with you in the house!
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Smithers; Mr. Lodge; Mr. Pfluger
Synopsis:
Mr. Lodge can't catch any fish so Archie buys a bucket of fish and has Jughead hook fish to Mr. Lodge's hook.

Indexer Notes

Jughead is reading a copy of Archie's Pals 'n' Gals.

Confidentially It Sinks!
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Archie / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:How do you like my new canoe Veronica? I made it myself! It's prefabricated!
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis:
Archie takes Veronica for a ride in his new prefabricated canoe.

Mower or Less!
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Archie / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You heard me Archie, grab the lawn mower and get busy!
Characters:
Fred Andrews; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis:
Archie's dad tells him to treat lawn mowing as a game.

Hat Check!
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Archie / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It was nice of you, to baby sit with me Archie!
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis:
Archie is helping Veronica babysit, and to keep the kid busy he tells him he will give him a quarter for each man in a top hat he sees.

Sharp as a Tackle
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Jughead / comic story / 3 pages

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  • Genre:humor; sports; teen
  • Feature Logo:Archie's Pal Jughead
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Reggie, I thought I'd die laughing when you tore off his arm and hit him over the head with it!
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis:
Betty hears Archie and Reggie talking about what they did to Jughead, not realizing that the Jughead they are talking about is a tackling dummy.

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Archie / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Suffering Cats!
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Archie / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Archie! Jughead! I'm so glad you came! You must help me! She's stuck! She's gone up the flue!!
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Poopsie; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis:
Archie and Jughead try to get Veronica's cat, Poopsie, out of the chimney.

Mother's Favorite Recipe
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Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Say, Betty, let's bake a cake!
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Mrs. Cooper
Synopsis:
Betty and Veronica decide to bake a cake and use a recipe of Betty's mom.

Indexer Notes

Betty is accidentally colored with red hair for five of the six panels.

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Archie Club News / letters page / 0.5 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!
Characters:
Archie Andrews

Indexer Notes

Promo for Archie Club membership with first-prize report from Jo Ann Burchetta (Carmel, NY) on reading Archie Comics with her father and second-prize report from Shirleen Baxter (Los Angeles 19, CA) on her 10th birthday party.

Slink or Swim!
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Archie / comic story / 3 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Look! Just like on television!
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Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis:
Archie and Jughead keep accidentally annoying a burly lifeguard.

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Archie Fun Page / activity / 0.5 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Which six bricks would you take out of this wall to make a perfect square?

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Includes taking six bricks out of wall to make square, guessing lifespan of oil, finishing words ending in "-ink" based on definitions, and visual puzzle.

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page

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From Hollywood / text article / 2 pages

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  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Lancaster Puts Parlor Play Into Film Work
Characters:
Archie Andrews

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Movie news.

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Katy Keene / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Bill Woggon (signed)
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Bill Woggon (signed)
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Bill Woggon (signed)
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  • Genre:humor; fashion; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Begorra, Katy, I could go on living like this forever... if we didn't have to eat!!
Characters:
Katy Keene; K.O. Kelly
Synopsis:
Katy figures out a way to keep K.O. from seeing all the other beautiful girls on the beach.

Indexer Notes

Beach towel by Judy Weil (Stony Creek, CT); K.O.'s swim trunks by George Evans (Dickson City, PA); Katy's swim suit and pose by Eleanor Raymond (Venice, CA); Katy's pose and swim suit by B.A. Werner (Bronx 68, NY); K.O.'s jersey and swim shorts by Charotte Renna (Waterbury, CT); beach towel and radio by Dixie Heinz (Tulare, CA); Katy's pose and hot dog stand by Joyce Sinnemaki (Kellogg, ID); all suits on bathing beauties by Rochelle Small (Los Angeles 34, CA).

Final panel is order form for double pin-up and cut-out set of Katy and K.O.

No Peeking!
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Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Wow! Have you seen our new student, Lola La Verne?
Characters:
Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Synopsis:
Betty and Veronica make catty remarks about a new female student.

With a Smile!
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Archie / comic story / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Good day, sir!
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis:
Archie stops at a gas station that gives him an almost full service treatment.

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Dubble Bubble Gum / advertisement / 0.5 page

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The Nose Knows
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Archie / comic story / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A snappertunia? I never heard of such a plant!
Characters:
Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy
Synopsis:
Archie bring a snappertunia, a cannibal plant, as a gift for Miss Grundy.

As Young as You Spiel
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Archie / comic story / 5.67 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Man! You should have piped this peasant as he ankles into the froth-parlor! You'd have split a spleen!
Characters:
Fred Andrews; Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones
Synopsis:
Archie's dad decides to show Archie how silly teenagers look and sound when he has some cats over for a stomp and shout session.

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Wilbur / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page

Girls, Girls, Girls
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Archie / comic story / 2 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Wowie! This looks like a good spot to squat, Betty!
  • Keywords:swimsuits
Characters:
Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
Synopsis:
Betty is annoyed that Archie has taken her to the beach, but he keeps looking at all the good-looking women.

Musically Inclined!
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Jughead / comic story / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:All together now! One... two... three... sing!!
Characters:
Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis:
Miss Grundy thinks Jughead should stop singing and play an instrument and he reveals he used to be an organist.

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Archie Fun Page / activity / 0.5 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:After you complete this drawing, try coloring it with your crayons!

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Includes completing and coloring the drawing, tic tac toe, a question, and find a path.

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Jughead / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page

Fight Knight!
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Archie / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Desist!
Characters:
Miss Grundy; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
Synopsis:
Miss Grundy teaches Archie to fight.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Jughead! Hydrogen plus oxygen equals water! Can you give me another example of a chemical change?"]
    Archie
  2. Atomic Fishin'
    Archie
  3. Confidentially It Sinks!
    Archie
  4. Mower or Less!
    Archie
  5. Hat Check!
    Archie
  6. Sharp as a Tackle
    Jughead
  7. ["Jughead, how can you sit there eating? Aren't you excited about our brand new Pals 'n' Gals comic book?"]
    Archie
  8. Suffering Cats!
    Archie
  9. Mother's Favorite Recipe
    Betty and Veronica
  10. ["Get a real candid camera for only 50ยข"]
  11. ["Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!"]
    Archie Club News
  12. Slink or Swim!
    Archie
  13. ["Which six bricks would you take out of this wall to make a perfect square?"]
    Archie Fun Page
  14. ["Laugh it up! With Laugh Comics"]
  15. ["Lancaster Puts Parlor Play Into Film Work"]
    From Hollywood
  16. ["Begorra, Katy, I could go on living like this forever... if we didn't have to eat!!"]
    Katy Keene
  17. No Peeking!
    Betty and Veronica
  18. With a Smile!
    Archie
  19. ["I'm scared! This really is a tough neighborhood!"]
    Dubble Bubble Gum
  20. ["You can't miss!"]
  21. The Nose Knows
    Archie
  22. As Young as You Spiel
    Archie
  23. ["For a king-size laugh... buy Wilbur Comics"]
    Wilbur
  24. Girls, Girls, Girls
    Archie
  25. Musically Inclined!
    Jughead
  26. ["After you complete this drawing, try coloring it with your crayons!"]
    Archie Fun Page
  27. ["Monkey business!"]
    Jughead
  28. Fight Knight!
    Archie
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