Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1958-06-19
Editing: John L. Goldwater (editor-in-chief); Richard H. Goldwater (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) #49 Edit Cover
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Jughead / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Jughead!... You're not singing the right words!
Characters:
Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle

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On-sale date from copyright registration.

Stripe Gripe
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Jughead / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • Feature Logo:Archie's Pal Jughead
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Archie, you impetuous egghead! What's the scoop on your locking horns with Mister Weatherbee?
Characters:
Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis:
Archie is repainting the horizontal stripe along the school's interior walls. When Mr. Weatherbee sees the new good-looking girl in school, he knows Archie will be too distracted to paint a straight line, so he gets Jughead to do it. Jughead decides it will be quicker to do it on roller skates, which works fine until he hits the stairs. He makes such a mess of it that Mr. Weatherbee decides to paint the stripe himself.
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Gardening News
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Li'l Jinx / comic story / 2 pages

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  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Boy, our club house looks pretty bad!
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Li'l Jinx Holliday; Hap Holliday; Greg
Synopsis:
Li'l Jinx's father tells her that daffodil and other flowers come from bulbs, so she takes every light bulb out of the house to plant them.
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My Favorite Fiend
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Jughead / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Excuse me, Ronnie! Here comes someone I want to see!
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Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis:
Everyone is selling raffle tickets to help the children's hospital. Jughead claims he only wants to win the television set for selling the most, because he knows some guys who he can unload it on. The others make a point to outsell Jughead at every place he tries to sell tickets just so he won't win. They all end up selling 50 tickets apiece but Jughead still wins by selling 80. Mr. Weatherbee points out that because of Jughead's actions, everyone sold more tickets and then he shows them who Jughead unloaded the television on: the children at the children's hospital.
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Archie / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Johann Gregor Mendel
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Giants of Science / text article / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:For centuries man searched for the answer to the riddle of inheritance.
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A Bird to the Wise
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Jughead / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
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Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
Synopsis:
Archie gives Jughead a talking bird. Jughead cooks the bird and eats it. Archie says that it spoke three languages and Jughead asks why then, didn't it say something.

Don't Kid Me
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Jughead / comic story / 3 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hey! Look at Jughead!
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Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Peanuts
Synopsis:
Archie and Reggie try to play a joke on Jughead by telling the girls he is keeping a kid in the tool shed. Meanwhile, Peanuts, a local boy, has told Jughead they put the young goat in the tool shed, and Jughead tells him to stay there and wait for them to come back. When the girls come and find a real child in the tool shed, they thrash Archie and Reggie.
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The Raccoon
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Nature's Notebook / text article / 1 page

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  • Genre:animal; math & science
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Raccoon is one of nature's most adaptable creatures.

Fizzician
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Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:No money for sodas, eh, Jug?
Characters:
Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate
Synopsis:
Jughead convinces the girls that sodas are fattening. The scale shows they have gained weight, so they offer their sodas to Jughead. Pop checks the scale and says it's ten pounds over.
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Joker's Wild!
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Reggie / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:humor; teen
  • Feature Logo:Archie's Rival Reggie
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Betty, have you ever seen a day so crushingly dull?
Characters:
Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones
Synopsis:
Reggie pretends to be injured to get a soda and play a joke on the girls. Archie sends Reggie to get a practical joke idea from Jughead. Reggie says Jughead was pretending to have measles, but Jughead wasn't pretending.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Jughead!... You're not singing the right words!"]
    Jughead
  2. Stripe Gripe
    Jughead
  3. Gardening News
    Li'l Jinx
  4. My Favorite Fiend
    Jughead
  5. ["Out of this world!"]
    Archie
  6. Johann Gregor Mendel
    Giants of Science
  7. A Bird to the Wise
    Jughead
  8. Don't Kid Me
    Jughead
  9. The Raccoon
    Nature's Notebook
  10. Fizzician
    Betty and Veronica
  11. Joker's Wild!
    Reggie
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