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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published May 1964
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Relax, girls, Patient X will be all right!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Cover based on a scene from the story inside.
Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Bob White
Inks Bob White
Notes No credits, but art appears to be by White.

24 page Life With Archie story "The Strange Case of Patient X"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; "Patient X"; man with the red mustache; Dr. Ben Lacey; Nurse Burke
Synopsis Betty and Veronica become nurse's aides at the hospital, where one of the new patients is a comatose man known only as "Patient X." Betty notices a mysterious man with a red mustache peeking into "Patient X"'s room. When "Patient X" starts to come out of his coma, his only words are "Must protect Carezzo." Archie and the gang take it upon themselves to solve the mystery of who "Patient X" is, what he's trying to protect, and what the man with the red mustache has to do with all this.
Genre adventure; humor
Script Sy Reit
Pencils Bob White
Inks Bob White
Notes Script identifiable as Sy Reit by the style and by an in-joke in the story: a hospital P.A. announcer calls for "Dr. Reit" on p. 9. (On p. 7, the announcer calls for "Dr. White," referring to Bob White, the artist.)
Reprinted in Where's Archie? (Bantam Books, 1974 series) #S6461

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "E-Motion Pictures"

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