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Issue Details

Issue #149
Published August 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Of course it's Archie!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz

6 page Archie story "Black Book Bluff"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Veronica threatens to break up with Archie unless he shows the gang the little black book where he's been writing down all their secrets. After sending another black book ("The Wobbsey Twins At Haunted Lodge") as a decoy, he finally gives in and is about to read the mysterious book to them, until he plays on his friends' fears of having their guilty secrets come out.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Bill Vigoda
Inks Bill Vigoda
Notes This is part of a storyline that began in "The Little Black Book" (Archie # 129) and continued in "The Black Book Returns" (Archie # 132)

2 page Archie story "The Big Black & Blue Belt"

Characters Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Archie tries to get his black belt in karate.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Bill Vigoda
Inks Bill Vigoda

6 page Archie story "Moon, June, Ruin!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Archie is writing a song, which leads to his friends trying to figure out who he's writing it for, not to mention a lot of puns and mockery of his songwriting skills.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Bill Vigoda
Inks Bill Vigoda
Notes The song Reggie and Jughead sing is "You Always Hurt the One You Love," which writer Frank Doyle quoted in many stories well into the '80s.

5 page Li'l Jinx story "Hikes and Likes!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Ga Ga; Hap Holliday
Synopsis After the President calls for the youth of America to be more physically active, Li'l Jinx prepares to go on a fifty mile hike.
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards
Notes One of many Archie stories from 1962-3 based on President Kennedy's call for kids to exercise more.

5 page Josie story "Daddy's Girl"

Characters Josie; Mr. Jones; Albert; Pepper
Synopsis Josie accuses her father of raising her as a tomboy because he always wanted a boy. She decides she's going to be sickeningly feminine from now on.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Marty Epp