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Issue Details

Issue #192
Published May 1971
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Listen to Jug pour his heart out on that love song!"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Midge Klump; Sabrina
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Jughead story "The Dragon Slayer"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason
Synopsis After Jughead insults him once too often, Reggie challenges him to a duel -- in the boxing ring.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

6 page Jughead story "First Love"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Prehistoric Archie and Reggie meet prehistoric Jughead, who discovers that a kiss from a woman makes him feel not love, but hunger.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

5 page Jughead story "The Consumer"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Professor Flutesnoot; Miss Beazly; Mrs. Jones
Synopsis On doctor's orders, Jughead is on a strict diet, but spends the whole day begging for extra food at school.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Hear Hear!"

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

6 page Jughead story "Accused"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mrs. Jones; Mr. Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Geraldine Grundy; Moose Mason; Midge Klump
Synopsis When Jughead is falsely accused of vandalizing the school, his friends, parents and teachers all assume he did it, and turn on him. Even after he's cleared of the crime, he's still miserable because no one believed him when it counted.
Genre teen; drama
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz
Notes One of the most downbeat stories in an Archie comic, with an unusually bleak ending.