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Issue Details

Issue #575
Published July 2007
Cover Price $2.25 USD
Pages 44
Editing Victor Gorelick; Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details - "An Archie-Free Summer!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Stan Goldberg (signed)
Inks Bob Smith (signed)

6 page Archie story "Bee On The Lookout"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Waldo Weatherbee; Mr. Svenson; Fred Andrews
Synopsis After a particularly stressful year, Mr. Weatherbee and Archie try to avoid each other for 24 hours to officially start summer vacation.
Genre teen; humor
Script Angelo DeCesare
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Bob Smith
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Jack Morelli

5 page Archie story "Good Taste In Cars!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Pop Tate buys a hybrid vehicle that runs on gasoline or recycled cooking oil. The bad thing is that the exhaust smells like french fries.
Genre teen; humor
Script Mike Pellowski
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Bob Smith
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Jack Morelli

5 page Archie story "Baby Talk"

Characters Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Chuck Clayton; Mrs. Gray; Sidney Gray (her toddler)
Synopsis Reggie and Chuck ask Archie if he wants to go play basketball at the park. He declines, as he has to go babysit. Archie takes Sidney to the same park and within a few minutes has a number of girls "ewwing" and "ahhing" over both Sidney and Archie.
Genre teen; humor
Script Mike Pellowski
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Bob Smith
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Jack Morelli

8 page Batman; Big Chew Bubble Gum story "A Rare Catch"

Characters Batman; Penguin; Cal Ripken, Jr.
Genre superhero; ad
Script Ernest Mayes (story); Mike Spinnaraque
Pencils Christopher Jones
Inks Christopher Jones
Colors Giulia Brusco
Letters Pat Brousseau
Editing Michael Wright; Jessica Numsuwankijkul (assistant editor)
Notes This is an 8 page glossy insert for Big Chew Bubble Gum produced by DC Comics. It appears between pages 2 and 3 of the previous sequence.

2 page Archie filler "Fan Art"

Characters Archie Andrews
Genre teen; humor
Pencils (fan art)
Inks (fan art)
Colors (fan art)
Letters typeset

6 page Archie story "Summer Musings"

Characters Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Mr. Baxter (the city editor of the Riverdale Bugle)
Synopsis As Archie is heading to the beach, he gets a letter accepting him as an intern to the Riverdale Bugle, the local newspaper, but he has to start that same day. He begrudgingly accepts and gets sent on a bad assignment at the beach. But, as luck would have it, he ends up as a judge for a beauty pagent at that same beach.
Genre teen; humor
Script George Gladir
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Bob Smith
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Jack Morelli