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Issue: Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual #1
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #1 of 8 Issues (12 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/07/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 31 (17 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
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Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: Archie is taking me!
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica argue over who Archie is going to take to the Junior Prom. Meanwhile Archie takes a powder.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Suzie; Ginger Snapp; Super Duck; Wilbur Wilkin; Katy Keene
First Line: You can always judge a person by the company he keeps, kids!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Archie Comics line, appearing on the inside front cover. Art previously thought to be Bob Montana; it better matches Frese's promotional work of the era.
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Uncover Girl!

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Hi Betty, what are you doing, starting a private rogue's gallery?
Synopsis: Veronica refuses to give Betty a picture of herself for the yearbook, since all the pictures have her wearing out-of-date fashions, so Betty gets hold of one of Veronica's baby pictures and decides to publish that. Veronica finds out and gets revenge by pasting Betty's head onto the photo.
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Disclose Notes: Art previously credited to George Frese; it matches Schwartz's stories of the era.
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Character(s): Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Look! Big news!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Jughead Annual and Betty and Veronica Annual.
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Twin Killing

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Midge Klump; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Lila Smith; Lois Smith
First Line: Hi girls, have you heard about the new girls that registered this morning?
Synopsis: As a welcoming gesture to two new girls who just transferred to Riverdale High, Veronica and Betty agree to set them up with one time only dates with Archie and Reggie - - until they find out the Smith girls are gorgeous twins.
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Wrong Track

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Alice Cooper (cameo); Betty's cousin Herbert
First Line: Oh Betty, that was Aunt Lucy. She asked if you're not doing anything, would you baby sit for her.
Synopsis: Dateless, Betty agrees to babysit for her Aunt Lucy. When she runs into Archie on the way and he asks her out (since Veronica dumped him), Betty invites him along on her babysitting job.
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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Veronica Pencil Fun
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Character(s): Archie Andrews
First Line: Tell ya what ah'm gonna do!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) featuring Archie as a medicine show man selling the latest issue.
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Dyeing For A Date

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Betty! Betty I've got it! It's colossal!
Synopsis: Betty helps Reggie play a prank on Veronica so she won't go to the dance with Archie.
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Shop, Look and Listen

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee
First Line: Golly, what a nice surprise, getting half the day off from school because of a teachers' meeting!
Synopsis: Mr. Weatherbee assigns Archie and Reggie to rehabilitate his desk. Betty and Veronica would like to help, despite not knowing anything about carpentry.
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Gals Are Too Clever

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Elladay; Bill; Archie Andrews
First Line: Veronica could hardly wait for Betty to get home.
Synopsis: Betty and Veronica fret about losing Archie to the daughter of a Lodge business partner who is moving to Riverdale.
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For Better Or Verse

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
First Line: A surprise for me!
Synopsis: Archie pays Jughead to write a love poem, and then gives it to Veronica claiming he wrote it. Veronica is so impressed that she demands Archie write her another poem - - while she watches.
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Genres: sports
Feature(s): Don't Let It Puzzle You
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Character(s): Ginger Snapp; Mr. Snapp; Ickky Jones; Tommy Turner
First Line: She's Ginger and spice n' everything nice!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Ginger Comics (Archie, 1951 series) featuring chef dreaming of Ginger.
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Big Fad Mamas

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Say Reggie, did you ever see anything crazier than these mad fads that high school girls seem to dream up every year?
Synopsis: In order to embarrass the girls out of the fad fashions they've taken to wearing, Archie and Reggie dress up in clothing from the Gay '90s.
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Feature(s): Fun Page
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
First Line: For the laugh of your life, get Laugh Comics at your favorite newsstand now!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Laugh Comics (Archie, 1946 series) featuring various Archie characters and ordinary people laughing.
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Ugly Rumor

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Ophelia Glutenschnable
First Line: Reggie, what kind of a man are you anyway?
Synopsis: Reggie tells Veronica he saw Archie escorting another woman. To his surprise, that only makes Archie more appealing to her.
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Dream Girl

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Miss Grundy
First Line: Here are the papers you asked me to check, Miss Grundy!
Synopsis: Betty offers to use her dream interpretation book on a disturbing dream Miss Grundy had the previous night. The book forecasts Miss Grundy will have an accident.
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Debby Twist; Sandy; Oliver Twist; Lotta Twist; Virgil Gooney; Willie Woogie; Betsy Ross
First Line: Sandy! I don't mind you buying one soda with two straws...
Synopsis: Debby's dad organizes a taffy pull as a low-cost form of entertainment for the kids.
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Disclose Notes: Debby's jumper and blouse by Carol Penrod (American Fork, UT); Debby's sweater and skirt by Carole Johnson (Niagara Falls, Ontario); Debby's mother's dress by Elinor Leimkuhler (Harrisonville, MO).

Next appearance in Katy Keene Comics (Archie, 1949 series) #13.
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Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
First Line: The eternal triangle!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for comics in which Archie appears featuring Jughead explaining the Archie/Betty/Veronica love triangle.
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Feature(s): Fun Page
First Line: Soupy Slooth
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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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The Dim View

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Good grief Veronica, what happened to your eyes?
Synopsis: Archie and Reggie pretend to be impressed by Veronica's new sunglasses as a joke, but she thinks they're serious. So does Betty, who promptly runs right out and buys a pair herself.
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Shop and Go!

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Jeeves the butler
First Line: Archie, would you like to go down to Samm's Department Store with me?
Synopsis: Veronica goes shopping for a birthday present for her father. She drags Archie along to buy the gift while she shops for clothes for herself.
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Feature(s): Puzzle Fun
Character(s): Abraham Lincoln
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Disclose Notes: Includes spelling words using letters in "Lincoln" and rebus to spell famous person's last name (Marconi).
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With Mallet Toward None

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Wilbur
First Line: Where are the boys Veronica?
Synopsis: Veronica insists on teaching Archie and Reggie croquet, but the collateral damage is too much for Mr. Lodge.
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Cagey Capers

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Hermione Lodge
First Line: Betty, can you come over to my house?
Synopsis: Archie gives Veronica a parrot trained to say "I love you". When Reggie hears of it, he decides to teach the bird a few other phrases.
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Disclose Notes: Betty reads an issue of Ginger (Archie, 1951 series) in the splash panel. Pencils previously credited to George Frese; they more closely resemble Lucey's early work.
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My Type Is Your Type

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
First Line: Well Betty, if I want to be ready to go to the dance, I'd better run.
Synopsis: Betty offers to type Archie's essay for English class. Archie accepts, then uses the free time to go out with Veronica.
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It Takes the Cake

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Genres: teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
First Line: They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach!
Synopsis: Betty tries to bake a cake following the recipe being broadcast over television, with less than stellar results.
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Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Linda Moore; Red; Laurie Lake
First Line: Wilbur is in hot water again!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring Wilbur jumping out of a scalding bathtub.

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