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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published 1958
Frequency annual
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 82
Editing Harry Shorten

Cover Details - "Boys Always Think They're Doing Fine"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews (as a fish); Reggie Mantle (as a fish); Jughead Jones (as a crab)
Synopsis Betty and Veronica sit on a pier, fishing for aquatic life that bear a resemblance to their male friends.
Genre Teen
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Terry Szenics ?

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Poor Little Rich Girl"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis When Betty falls and hits her head at the Lodge Mansion, she gets the inspiration to pretend she thinks she's Veronica, hoping it will let her get a few dates with Archie.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

6 page Betty And Veronica story "A Matter Of Degree"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Moose Mason; Elvis
Synopsis Sick of Jughead's nasty comments about them because they're women, Betty and Veronica dress up as men to see if he'll react differently to them.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Scent-sational"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Veronica comes down with a virus and can't make the dance, so Betty volunteers to substitute and accompany Archie. When Veronica discovers Archie is allergic to her new $60 an ounce perfume, she gives it to Betty so Archie won't get too close.
Genre Teen
Pencils Bill Vigoda

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Rash Promise"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Veronica forces Archie to ask Betty out on a pity date. Then the school moves the Fall Festival dance to that evening. Rather than go back on her word, Veronica tries to use Betty's naive suggestibility to convince her that she's too sick to keep the date.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

1 page Betty story "Safety Worst"

Characters Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Reggie takes Betty for a ride in his new sports car, despite her doubts that the car is safe.
Genre Teen
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

Half page Archie story "Tracked Down"

Characters Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Reggie feeds Archie a sports scoop for the school paper.
Genre Teen
Script Tom Moore
Pencils Tom Moore
Inks Tom Moore
Letters Tom Moore

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Sheer Nonsense"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Alice
Synopsis When Veronica insults Betty over her cheap, coarse stockings, Jughead gets an idea to give Betty a measure of payback.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Triple Threat"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis In order to break up a shopping trip that Veronica has commanded Archie to attend, Betty plants two man-hungry coeds at the store and tells them that Archie is available.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Fun Page activity

Characters Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Various word scramble and word fill-in puzzles.
Genre teen

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Clean Defeat"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Clayton
Synopsis Betty and Veronica compete to impress a handsome professional cleaner getting the Lodge Mansion in shape for Veronica's party.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Leaders In Laughs"

Notes Advertisement for the 1958 Archie Comics Annuals.

5 page Betty And Veronica story "Sweater Boy"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Veronica buys a sweater for Archie. Unfortunately, it matches the sweater Betty just bought for herself and now everyone assumes Archie and Betty are going steady.
Genre Teen
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

3 page Betty And Veronica text story "Gown And Out"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis When Betty finds out that Veronica plans to wear the original gown she bought a copy of to the big dance, she hatches a plan to keep her friend from attending the dance all together.
Genre Teen
Pencils Bill Vigoda ?
Inks Bill Vigoda ?
Letters typeset
Notes The text illustration on page two is a cropped reprint of the Betty figure from the cover of Archie's Girls, Betty And Veronica #27. The other two illustrations may also be cropped reprints from other previously printed stories.

5 page Veronica story "Sea Sore Affair"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper
Synopsis Mr. Lodge notices that Archie and Jughead don't seem to like him much. At Veronica's urging, he tries to be buddy-buddy with the two teens.
Genre Teen
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

Half page Betty And Veronica story "Tatler-Tale"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Betty notices the society page in the school paper is dominated by Veronica. Jughead shows her why.
Genre Teen
Script Tom Moore
Pencils Tom Moore
Inks Tom Moore
Letters Tom Moore

6 page Moose story "Paint It The Truth"

Characters Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Moose has started painting landscapes in oil. He's also selling everything he paints, mainly by threatening the other students if they don't buy.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

5 page Betty And Veronica story "Switchcraft"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis When Archie begins giving Veronica flowers for no reason, Betty hints to her that he's probably got another girl on the side. Then when Veronica blows up at him, Betty hints to Archie she did it because she's got another guy on the side.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

1 page Betty And Veronica story "Daffy-Nitions"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee
Synopsis Humorous definitions of common words, based on the lives of Betty and Veronica.
Genre Teen
Pencils Bill Vigoda
Inks Bill Vigoda ?

1 page Fun Page activity

Characters Archie Andrews
Synopsis Various puzzles and activities, including a lesson on how to draw Archie.
Genre teen

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Maiden Missed"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge; Midge Klump; Alice
Synopsis When Veronica detects traces of a different perfume on Archie, she surreptitiously enlists the help of Betty, Archie, Reggie and Jughead to help her track down what girl he's been cuddling up to.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo