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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published 1960
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 84
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Target for tonight!"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Terry Szenics
Colors Victor Gorelick

6 page Betty and Veronica story "Sweet Sorrow"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis When Veronica shows Betty a new dress she bought, Betty becomes despondent because Veronica has so much more than she does.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

8 page Betty and Veronica story "The Kiss-Off"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot
Synopsis Betty has won a prize of ten kisses from Archie, which she can collect one at a time at any time she wants. Every time she collects a kiss, she turns into a drooling moron, so that some of her teachers think she's smart and others think she's stupid. This complicates matters when she's selected to represent Riverdale High in an inter-school debate.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo
Notes A later digest reprint deleted Mr. Weatherbee's line "Professor Flutesnoot has been sniffing too many chemicals."

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Cleaned Up!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Synopsis Li'l Jinx washes up.
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

4 page Betty and Veronica story "Cooking Caper"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Synopsis Betty and Veronica overhear Archie and Jughead making nasty remarks about their cooking, and are determined to prove them wrong.
Genre teen; humor
Script Sy Reit ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo
Notes In this story, Betty is as bad a cook as Veronica. The idea that Betty was a great cook, while it had occasionally appeared, did not take permanent hold until several years later.

10 page Archie story "Puttin' On the Dog!"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis Archie and Veronica try to get an invitation to the home of Calvin Colcash, a man even richer than Mr. Lodge. They think they've found a way in when they find a dog that the Colcash butler lost.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

Half page Betty filler "Father Pays Best"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Betty makes a catty remark when Archie says that Veronica knows how to dress.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

6 page Betty and Veronica story "Show Biz"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Archie has promised to take Betty anywhere she wants for her birthday, but when she wants to go to the carnival, he says no, driving her into despair over his broken promise.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

2 page Betty and Veronica presents text article "Star of the Month: James Garner"

Synopsis Article on the star of TV's "Maverick."
Letters Typeset

6 page Betty and Veronica story "The Conquest"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Betty and Veronica both go to extremes trying to chase after a handsome new boy.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

Half page Archie filler "Sorry, Right Number"

Characters Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

Half page Betty and Veronica filler "Secretly Speaking"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Betty thinks Veronica blabbed a secret to Midge.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick

4 page Betty and Veronica story "Great Skate"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Betty tries to break up Archie and Veronica's skating date on the frozen pond by causing them to skate over thin ice.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

6 page Betty and Veronica story "Price War"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate
Synopsis Pop Tate announces that he's going out of business because of rising costs. Betty and Veronica advise him to raise his prices, but he refuses. So the girls come up with a different way to lower Pop's costs.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Big Mouth"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Gigi; Merry Holliday
Synopsis An argument is raging over whether Li'l Jinx is a "big mouth."
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

7 page Betty and Veronica story "Music Makers"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Professor Fluteweed
Synopsis Veronica joins the school orchestra to be closer to Archie, so Betty joins too, even though she can't play an instrument.
Genre teen; humor
Script Sy Reit
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

2 page Jughead story "The Passer-By!"

Characters Jughead Jones; Martha Jones
Synopsis Jughead makes a trek across town using every form of public transit.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

8 page Archie story "A Choice Choice"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
Synopsis To take his mother out on her birthday, Archie has to break a date with Veronica. Afraid to break the date, Archie tells Ronnie he's sick. When Veronica finds out, she's angry that Archie thought she wouldn't understand, so she decides to teach him a lesson.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Victor Gorelick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo
Reprinted in Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo Volume 1 (IDW Publishing, 2010 series) #[nn]