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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published December 1968
Frequency seven times per year
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard Goldwater (managing editor)

Cover Details - "How To Release"

Characters Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis At the bowling alley, Archie is instructing Betty on how to improve her game and Veronica thinks he's being a little too hands on.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Betty And Me story "Heroes Are Made"

Characters Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Hot Dog; Veronica Lodge; Roger
Synopsis Betty gets emotional when she thinks Archie has to part with Hot Dog.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes On page one, there are two sets of initials carved into the fence behind Archie and Hot Dog. One set is "DD" (for Dan DeCarlo) and the other is "RG" (possibly Richard Goldwater). In this story, Hot Dog is Archie's dog, not Jughead's.

1 page Dear Betty letters page "I've A Problem With The Girls"

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

1 page Li'l Jinx story "It's For Real"

Characters Li'l Jinx
Synopsis Jinx admires the realistic effects of some paintings.
Genre Humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

11 page Betty And Me story "Curtain Call"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Dilton Doiley
Synopsis Betty encounters Veronica and Archie rehearsing for a play and volunteers to direct them.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Betty illustration "The Betty"

Characters Betty Cooper
Synopsis Betty dances to the lyrics of "The Betty", a song written for the "The Archie Show", the CBS Saturday morning animated show.
Genre Teen
Script Richie Adams; Mark Barker
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

6 page Betty And Me story "Tool Fool"

Characters Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Betty decides to demonstrate her generation's "ability to fix the world that the older generation is destined to destroy" by fixing a broken down lawn chair in the yard - - without any general carpentry skills.
Genre Teen
Script Dick Malmgren ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes This and other stories of this era were made before Betty's character evolved into a general fix-it whiz.