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Genres: teen

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mr. Cooper

First Line: Mr. Cooper, will you please tell Betty it's time for me to go home!

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Pages: 1

Bulletin No. 43 - Shield G-Man Club

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Writer(s): ? [as Joe Higgins]

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Feature(s): Shield G-Man Club

Character(s): The Shield [Joe Higgins]

First Line: Merry Christmas, gang!

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Notes: Interior front cover.
Features an illustration of the Shield G-Man Club badge.
Indicia information included.

Weeny Roast!

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Schmidt; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper

First Line: Why, Archie! What are you doing, driving a delivery truck?

Synopsis: Archie invites Veronica to a weenie roast, but discovers he has to work his job delivering weenies. When Veronica comes up with the idea of placing an order, so that Archie can deliver it to her, Reggie tries to double cross Archie.

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Pages: 10

Notes: This story doesn't seem to be a new Archie story, but rather a redrawn Wilbur story. The character models and layouts do not match other Vigoda stories of the time period, and Vigoda's signature (which also does not match his usual signature) appears to the left of an empty signature box.

Story Quiz

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First Line: Color me!!

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Pages: 0.75

Notes: A maze, color the pirate and unscramble the letters.

You Can't Beat Him For Laughs!

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Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy

First Line: He's Archie...America's typical teen-ager!

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: Hyping Archie's appearing in Laugh Comics and Archie Comics.

Katy Keene The Pin-Up Queen

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis; K.O. Kelly; Randy Van Ronson; Eddie McCracken; Doctor Kildear

First Line: Yes! This is Katy Keene --- and you say I've been picked by station W-O-G as the lucky girl to go on a date with "The Cinderella Man"?

Synopsis: Katy has won a date with "The Cinderella Man", which doesn't go down well with her various boy friends.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Station W-O-G is a reference to creator Bill Woggon.

Fashions designed by June Logan, Barbara Yoerger, Jean Aronson, Elda Bernardi, Lucille DiMartino, Ardeth Jenkins, Joan DuGay, Dolores Rice, Gay Skagg, Dorothy Jean Ballard, Josephine Haywood, Lila Hoff, Barbara King

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Li'l Jinx; Mr. Krakback; Bill Bubblegum

First Line: Is there any mail for me?

Synopsis: Li'l Jinx wants to get mail, so she answers advertisements to get something back.

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Pages: 6

Notes: The final panel is a promo for the Li'l Jinx Pen Pal Club.

Pep Quiz

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Character(s): Archie Andrews; The Shield (Joe Higgins); Fred Andrews; Li'l Jinx

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Pages: 1

Notes: A maze, identify the first word in each question and use the first letter as the start of the second answer, and an optical illusion.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Joe Higgins [The Shield]; Dusty; Dr. Ray; Professor Jonathan Scott; Dr. Green; the District Attorney

First Line: The state contends that Jonathan Scott murdered a man while experimenting with an elixir to revive the dead.

Synopsis: Professor Scott has invented a serum that can bring people back from the dead. In order to find out if it works he kills a man but is caught by the police before he can administer the serum. Tried and convicted of murder, he's sentenced to the electric chair. He convinces his assistant Dr. Green to dig up his corpse and inject him with the serum so he can return from the grave to enact his revenge. Professor Scott electrocutes Dr. Ray for turning him in to the police. While trying to kill the district attorney he's stopped by Dusty and kills himself with a lethal injection. Never to return.

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Pep Comics #57 published June 1946
was The Man Who Wouldn't Stay Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 9

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Feature(s): Swift's Premium Franks

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge

First Line: Hot ziggidy dog! We're coming in on the frank beam

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for the Archie radio show and their sponsors, Swift & Company.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Willy

First Line: Hey! Whatsamatter with you lunkheads - can't you read signs?

Synopsis: Willy disobeys a bunch of signs and then gets angry when others disobey a sign.

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Pages: 3

Star Dirt

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Pages: 2

Notes: What actors are doing and what films are in production.

Pep Contest Page

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Notes: Contest for a year's subscription to Pep Comics.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Gloomy Gus; Gabby; Junior; Jake the Lug; Casey

First Line: I still say you don't find any respectable stiffs in a morgue!

Synopsis: Gus and Gabby inhabit the bodies of two dead policemen.

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Pages: 6

Do You Want Spending Money?

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Feature(s): Craft Honor Sales

First Line: Sell these beautiful patriotic and religious mottoes!

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Advice to "Pep" Readers for Bad Skin

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First Line: Stop worrying now about pimples, blackheads and other externally caused skin troubles

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Premiums Given Cash Commission

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First Line: Send name and address on coupon

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Notes: Interior back cover.

How a 97-Lb. Weakling Became the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man"

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Character(s): Charles Atlas

First Line: Charles, you poor boy!

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Notes: Back cover