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Issue Details

Issue #139
Published August 1963
Cover Price .12 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?

Cover Details - "Pitch Black Sun Glasses"

Characters Arche Andrews; Betty Cooper
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey

6 page Archie story "Alphabet Soup"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Miss Grundy; Mr. Weatherbee; Midge Klump; Big Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley; Big Ethel Muggs; Cricket O'Dell; Mr. Lodge
Synopsis The Archie characters are represented by a strange alphabet: ABVJRGWmBMDECL.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Harry Lucey

1 page Li'l Jinx story "That's Different"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Greg
Synopsis Instead of carving hearts with their initials in a tree, Li'l Jinx and Greg opt for something different.
Genre children; humor; gags
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Archie story "Photo Fin-Ish"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Archie and Veronica are plagued by photograph peddlers.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey

6 page Archie story "Head Work"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Archie gets an expensive vase stuck on his head.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey

5 page Archie story "Career Boy"

Characters Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Reggie accuses Archie of being a gold-digger, that he would only marry Veronica for her money.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Harry Lucey

2 page Archie Club News letters page

Characters Archie Andrews
Pencils Bob Montana ? (Archie images on a club press card and a club button)
Letters typeset
Notes A letter from Michael McIntyre

5 page Archie story "Fast Company"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mr. Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Mr. Lodge is chasing Archie, who's chasing Reggie, who's pulling Veronica with him. And all of them run over Jughead.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey