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Issue: Archie Comics #63
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #63 of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An Archie MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/11/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 25 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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FlagThe Best of Archie Comics #[1] [unnamed variant] published August 2011 as Touch and Go [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
First Line: Why do you say the way Archie feels about me is just puppy love, Betty?
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Silence Isn't Golden

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Pop Tate
First Line: Why, Fred! I didn't hear you come in!
Synopsis: Fred shoos Archie and his friends out of the house so he can concentrate on work, then can't concentrate in all of that peace and silence.
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Disclose Notes: Pencils previously credited to Harry Lucey; they match Frese's signed stories of the period.
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Get Lost, Cord!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: opinion
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: Hi, Jug! Whatcha doing?
Synopsis: Archie lectures Jughead on the danger of using a bare light socket as a flashlight.
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Groan Ups

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: No doubt about it, Betty, we've been foolish - foolish - foolish!
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica decide to stop wasting their time with boys.
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Egg-scuse Me

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper
First Line: What are we doing about Easter?
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica decide to throw an Easter party as an excuse for romantic games with the boys.
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Pages: 5
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Top Secret

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
First Line: Hi Archie, come on in!
Synopsis: Veronica models the gown she made herself.
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Dish-orderly Conduct

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Uncle Elwood
First Line: Sugarplum, would you like to catch the holiday show at the Bijou Theater tonight?
Synopsis: Archie tries anything to make enough money to keep his date with Veronica, and Reggie tries anything to sabotage him.
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Feature(s): Archie Puzzles
Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Includes unscrambling names of seven flowers and insect crossword puzzle.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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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).
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Ready soon! Archie Annual #5
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Annual (Archie, 1949 series) #5 with mail-in coupon. Cover is depicted, along with original art.
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Snack's All, Brother!

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Hey! You fellows ease up on those peanuts!!
Synopsis: Betty is cooking dinner for the boys and doesn't want them filling up on snacks.
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Safe Unsound

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
First Line: Why Archie, what's wrong?
Synopsis: Archie buys an expensive combination lock to keep Reggie out of his locker. Then he makes the mistake of giving Veronica the combination to keep safe.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Marie Windsor playing wicked gals at Warners
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Pages: 1.5
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Polio Facts for 1953

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes card trick and ring/rubber trick. Also includes promo for Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #1.
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Spring Fever

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Beautiful spring day, isn't it, Miss Grundy?
Synopsis: To try to shake Miss Grundy's class out of its spring lethargy, Mr. Weatherbee takes them on a field trip to the woods.
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Pages: 5.33
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: The spotlight is on Archie's Pal Jughead
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie's Pal Jughead (Archie, 1949 series) featuring Jughead standing in the spotlight on a stage with Archie and Reggie in the band.
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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 with first-prize report from Donald Kunimitsu (Honomu, HI) on sending care packages to soldiers in Korea and second-prize report from Suzan Reese (Syracuse 6, NY) on her horse hobby.
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Net Loss

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
First Line: Beautiful shot Arch! That's the set!
Synopsis: Reggie is very sporting about losing a tennis match to Archie - - up to a vanishing point.
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Used Cars

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
First Line: Okay Ronnie honey! I'll pick you up at eight!
Synopsis: Archie wants to borrow the car.
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Touch and Go

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Oh-h-h, Archikins! I don't know if I want to see this show!
Synopsis: Archie and Veronica go to a scary movie but it's not Veronica that gets scared.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Best of Archie Comics #[1] [unnamed variant] published August 2011
as Touch and Go [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Archie Andrews
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Includes printing four girls' names that rhyme with boys' names, finishing expressions, drawing giraffe, and visual gag (bridge table).
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: You can't miss!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Comics publications featuring a blindfolded Archie aiming an arrow at a target consisting of the Archie titles.
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The Calumnist

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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Great day in the mornin', Juggy, where did you dig up that crazy outfit?
Synopsis: Jughead gets a job as a gossip columnist and quickly learns that it pays more to promise not to publish his friends' incriminating stories.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee
First Line: Archie, who is the speaker of the house?
Synopsis: Archie gets taken to the principal's office for making an accidental joke in class, and Mr. Weatherbee, in need of jokes for his lodge speech, decides to keep him as a writer.
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Pages: 3

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