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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published April 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "That Silly Backbone"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Tough Teddy; Buddy Drumhead
Genre teen
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Letters Jon D'Agostino

8 page That Wilkin Boy story "Separate Lives"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe
Synopsis Bingo and Samantha decide they should date other people.
Genre teen; romance
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page That Wilkin Boy story "No Respect"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe
Synopsis Mr. Smythe makes fun of the new generation's wild new threads.
Genre teen
Script Dick Malmgren
Pencils Gus LeMoine
Letters Bill Yoshida

2 page Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe letters page Bingo and Samantha "Tells It Like It Is!!"

Genre teen
Script Eda Edwards [as Bingo and Samantha]
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Li'l Jinx story "A Bad Spell!"

Characters Charley Hawse
Genre children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

Archie Quarter Comics promo (ad from the publisher) "Giant Fun-In!"

Genre teen

1 page That Wilkin Boy's Buffoonery story "I See"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Shiela Smythe
Genre teen; gags
Pencils Gus LeMoine

1 page That Wilkin Boy's Buffoonery story "Daddy Digs Best"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Willie Wilkin; Tough Teddy
Genre teen; gags
Pencils Gus LeMoine

1 page That Wilkin Boy's Buffoonery story "Picky Picky"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Shiela Smythe
Genre teen; gags
Pencils Gus LeMoine

1 page That Wilkin Boy's Buffoonery story "Making A Hit"

Characters Tough Teddy; Buddy Drumhead
Genre teen; gags
Pencils Gus LeMoine

1 page That Wilkin Boy's Buffoonery story "A Broke Joke"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe
Genre teen; gags
Pencils Gus LeMoine

1 page That Wilkin Boy promo (ad from the publisher) "It's a Three-mendous offer"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Melody Valentine
Synopsis Subscriptions for That Wilkin Boy, Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina.
Genre teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo

15 page That Wilkin Boy story "That Silly Backbone"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Tough Teddy; Buddy Drumhead
Synopsis Bingo goes to get revenge after Samantha is brutally beaten by a couple of thugs.
Genre teen
Script Dick Malmgren
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Bill Yoshida