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Issue: Archie Comics #56
Publication Date: May 1952
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Issues: #56 of 101 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An Archie MagazineView Brand Images
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
Indicia Frequency:
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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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
First Line: What! You're breaking our date, Veronica!
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Pages: 1
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Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin
First Line: Tic...tac...toe...whichever way you go...you always win with Wilbur.
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Disclose Notes: 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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First Line: More fun than a barrel full of monkeys!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) featuring laughing monkeys reading the series. Inside front cover.
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Character(s): Super Duck
First Line: Don't say "good" or "better" or "best"..say "Super Duck."
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Promo for Super Duck Comics (Archie, 1944 series). Inside front cover.
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Some Enchanted Evening

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Yes, Veronica -- you will? We can?
Synopsis: 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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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: Boy! Am I starved!
Synopsis: Archie unwittingly gets roped into chaperoning the Boy Sprouts' picnic with Betty.
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Kicking the Gang Around

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Nah-h-h! Why go to the Choklit Shop?
Synopsis: Fred gets frustrated with the gang's frequent visits to the Andrews house.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: 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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Feature(s): Archie Fun Page
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Disclose Notes: Includes drawing owl, blot pictures, optical illusion, dizzy quiz, and rebus (quilt).
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin
First Line: Wilbur is cookin' with gags!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring Wilbur following the recipe for the latest issue.
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Haste Makes Waste

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Superintendent Dooper
First Line: Okay! Okay! So I was wrong!
Synopsis: Miss Grundy jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Weatherbee is drunk after celebrating an imminent promotion from the superintendent.
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Pep it up, gang!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) featuring Archie and the gang in his jalopy.
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Feature(s): From Hollywood
Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Grant, Drake Do Musical Stint In New Picture
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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Look what you get by joining the Archie Club, boys and girls!
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Disclose Notes: 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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First Line: $500.00 for 500 copies of the 1st edition of the Archie Annual!!!
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Disclose Notes: 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.
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Dream Team

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Coach, at the principal's conference, we decided to form girl basketball teams and have inter-high school competition!
Synopsis: Jughead is put in charge of forming and training Riverdale High's girls' basketball team.
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Pages: 7
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Feature(s): Dubble Bubble
First Line: Gee! a new boy!
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Super Duck
First Line: You kids be the judge!
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Disclose Notes: 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.
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Mind Over Madder

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