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Issue: Archie Giant Series Magazine #520
Publication Date: September 1982
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Issues: #520 of 332 Issues (502 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie Giant SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/22/1982
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000698609
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This issue re-introduces the larger number of panels that Archie comics had used in the late '50s and early '60s, with at least four panels on the first page of most stories and at least one extra small panel on the other pages.
On sale date from the Comic Reader #203.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfect bound; later saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Boys are all alike, Betty!!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joke reused, with a gender switch, for the cover of Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine #5.
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Figures in the Sand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: The girls arrive at the beach to stun the boys with their new bikinis, but the guys are too occupied with building sand castles to notice them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Beach or Bust!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Smithers
Synopsis: Veronica refuses to go to the beach unless she can bring a ton of things that barely fit in Archie's car.
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In Issue: FlagArchie's Double Digest Magazine #60 [Newsstand] published August 1992
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Take It Off

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Someone is always wearing the same swimsuit as Veronica, no matter how expensive the suit. So she asks Betty to make her an original suit.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Jughead Jones Comics Digest #46 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1987
In Issue: FlagArchie's Double Digest Magazine #60 [Newsstand] published August 1992
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Sea Scene

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Veronica's Fashions
Character(s): Veronica Lodge
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Leroy Was Here

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Smithers
Synopsis: Cousin Leroy is visiting and makes life heck for Archie by putting green dye in the suntan lotion.
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Pages: 5

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