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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published April 1965
Frequency 7 times a year, February, April, June, August, september, October, December
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36

Cover Details - "Another Great Josie Double-Header"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Socrates "Sock"
Genre teen humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo ?
Reprinted from splash page of interior story

14 page Josie story "Music Hath Charms"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Socrates "Sock"; Alexander "Alex"
Synopsis Seeing how Albert's guitar playing drives Josie wild, Sock tries to attract Pepper by playing a variety of different musical instruments. When that doesn't work, Albert tries to arrange for Sock to impress Pepper by being a hero.
Genre teen humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo ?
Notes Script identifiable as Frank Doyle by his style and by DeCarlo's statement that Doyle wrote all the early Josie comics.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Swing Into Spring With Betty and Veronica"

Characters Betty, Veronica
Synopsis Ad for Betty and Veronica Spectacular#32 (Archie Giant Series Magazine. Includes reproduction of cover by Dan DeCarlo
Pencils Harry Lucey

10 page Josie story "Odor Wise"

Characters Josie; Pepper; Alex; Alexandra; Cricket O'Dell; Albert
Synopsis Alex loses a briefcase full of money, and then Cricket sniffs down Albert, who's on the run.
Genre Teen Humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo ?
Notes Cricket O'Dell's only appearance in a Josie comic (she had previously appeared in Archie and Jughead comics). Her design here is completely different from her previous and later look; she doesn't even have her trademark freckles.

Half page Archie; Bendix advertisement "Archie Gets All the Breaks"

Characters Archie; Jughead; Betty; Veronica
Genre teen
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Harry Lucey
Notes ad for Bendix automatic 2-Speed, featuring Archie and friends on bicycles.

1 page text article "Teen Career Opportunities - the Dietician"

Genre fact
Letters ?; typeset

1 page Li'l Jinx story "The Right Change"

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