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Issue: Archie Comics #56
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Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/14/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 20 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
What! You're breaking our date, Veronica!
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Wilbur Wilkin
Tic...tac...toe...whichever way you go...you always win with Wilbur.
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Promo for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring Wilbur's head in the spaces of a tic-tac-toe board. Inside front cover.
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More fun than a barrel full of monkeys!
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Advertisement for Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) featuring laughing monkeys reading the series. Inside front cover.
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Super Duck
Don't say "good" or "better" or "best"..say "Super Duck."
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Promo for Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series). Inside front cover.
Some Enchanted Evening

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
Yes, Veronica -- you will? We can?
Jughead brings along his dog as his date on a moonlight picnic with Archie and Veronica, much to Archie's chagrin.
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Don't Kid Me!

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Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
Boy! Am I starved!
Archie unwittingly gets roped into chaperoning the Boy Sprouts' picnic with Betty.
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Kicking the Gang Around

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Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Nah-h-h! Why go to the Choklit Shop?
Fred gets frustrated with the gang's frequent visits to the Andrews house.
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On page three, Reggie sings "Jezebel," a #2 hit from 1951; the singer Frankie Fane is a parody of Frankie Laine.
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Archie Fun Page
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Includes drawing owl, blot pictures, optical illusion, dizzy quiz, and rebus (quilt).
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Wilbur Wilkin
Wilbur is cookin' with gags!
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Promo for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring Wilbur following the recipe for the latest issue.
Haste Makes Waste

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Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Superintendent Dooper
Okay! Okay! So I was wrong!
Miss Grundy jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Weatherbee is drunk after celebrating an imminent promotion from the superintendent.
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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Pep it up, gang!
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Promo for Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) featuring Archie and the gang in his jalopy.
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From Hollywood
Archie Andrews
Grant, Drake Do Musical Stint In New Picture
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Archie Andrews
Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!
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Promo for Archie Club membership featuring first-prize report from Patricia Morehead (Muncie, IN) and second-prize report from Kay Henderson (Dallas 11, TX).
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$500.00 for 500 copies of the 1st edition of the Archie Annual!!!
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Promo from Archie Comics offering $1 to each reader who sends in a copy of Archie Annual (Archie, 1949 series) #1. First 500 copies received will be accepted. Issues are needed for the company library.
Dream Team

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Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Coach, at the principal's conference, we decided to form girl basketball teams and have inter-high school competition!
Jughead is put in charge of forming and training Riverdale High's girls' basketball team.
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Dubble Bubble
Gee! a new boy!
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anthropomorphic
Super Duck
You kids be the judge!
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Promo for Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring judge handing Super Duck a paper reading "Best Award for 1952." Recycles art from earlier version of promo with only change being the year of the award.
Mind Over Madder

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Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Charlie; Pop Tate; Gina; Terry; June
Hi, Veronica! How's about you and Betty going to the bunny hop with Reggie and me Saturday night?
Archie and Reggie can't afford to take Betty and Veronica to the dance so they borrow money from Jughead.
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