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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published February 1973
Frequency seven times per year
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 48
Editing John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard Goldwater (managing editor)

Cover Details - "What's Developing"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Archie stops by a drive-thru photo kiosk to make out with the clerk, with Betty in the car.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick ?
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

8 page Betty And Me story "Grin And Bear It"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Midge Klump; Ethel Muggs; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge; Alice Cooper
Synopsis To reward Betty for helping him with his homework, Archie buys her a large teddy bear. But getting it her proves to be a threat to both his physical and psychological well-being.
Genre Teen
Pencils Gus Lemoine ?
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Betty And Me story "Prime Rhyme Time"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Sally Sneeke
Synopsis Betty's rival in a poetry contest steals her entry and tries to enter it under her own name.
Genre Teen
Script Bob Bolling ?
Pencils Gus Lemoine ?
Inks Gus Lemoine ?
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Betty And Me story "A Helping Hand"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper
Synopsis Betty has Archie over to her house, but her father keeps interrupting their time together to ask Archie to help move furniture.
Genre Teen
Pencils Stan Goldberg ?
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Getting A Head"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Charley Hawse
Synopsis Charley laments his lack of school achievement.
Genre Humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards

5 page Betty And Me story "Pedal Patter"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Betty and Archie go cycling, but Betty has a hard time keeping Archie's eyes off of other girls.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes Given Betty's odd hairstyle, for her, and occasionally odd behavior in this story, it may have originally been a Veronica story, with Veronica redrawn to be Betty.

5 page Betty And Me story "Fob Job"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Betty gets a job with a local record producer and is suddenly supremely popular with the local male musicians, a situation Veronica intends to remedy.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

2 page Dear Betty letters page "What A Terrible Problem"

Characters Betty Cooper
Synopsis "Betty" answers reader letters.
Script Eda Edwards [as Betty]
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards

5 page Betty And Me story "Rewards"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Betty saves Archie from injury. He insists on rewarding her, but it isn't the reward she was hoping for.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo (pgs 1, 4-5); Stan Goldberg (pgs 2-3)
Inks Rudy Lapick ?
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida