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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published November 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Now stay close behind me, Jughead"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Genre teen; humor; adventure
Pencils Bob White
Inks Bob White

25 page Life With Archie story "A-Haunting We Will Go"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Moose Mason; Waldo Weatherbee; Dilton Doily; Geraldine Grundy
Synopsis As part of an initiation, the boys make Moose spend the night in the local haunted house and try to make him think the place is actually haunted. But when an actual ghost seems to appear in the house, Archie and Jughead go back to solve the mystery of who -- or what -- is behind these scary spooks.
Genre teen; humor; adventure
Script Sy Reit
Pencils Bob White
Inks Bob White
Letters Marty Epp
Notes An issue-length story divided into four chapters: "A-Haunting We Will Go," "Calling All Spooks," "Ghost Busters" and "Ah -- Sweet Mystery." The format of this story is similar to what would later become the formula for "Scooby-Doo."

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Easy Street!"

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

1 page text article "Superstition"

Genre fact
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Letters Typeset