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Issue Details

Issue	#3
Published	October 1963
Cover Price	0.12 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "I hope they don't recognize me in this disguise!"

Characters	Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink
Genre	humor; adventure
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Notes	Re-colored version of the splash page from part 4 of the issue's main story.

8 page Josie story "Sweater Girls (chapter 1)"

Characters	Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink; un-named cop
Synopsis	Melody buys a sweater that, unknown to her, has real diamonds sewn into it as part of a smuggling operation. The smugglers follow the girls up to Alex's beach house to steal the sweater back.
Genre	humor; adventure
Script	Frank Doyle
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Notes	Script identifiable as Doyle by his style and DeCarlo's statement that Doyle did "all the writing" for early Josie comics.

6 page Josie story "Bad Sort (chapter 2)"

Characters	Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink
Synopsis	The Boss sends his incompetent underling, Waldo, over to the Cabot beach house to steal back the diamond-covered sweater.
Genre	humor; adventure
Script	Frank Doyle
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo

5 page Josie story "Native Nuisance (chapter 3)"

Characters	Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink
Synopsis	Alex comes up with a plan to lure the smugglers out into the open and capture them at the annual Beach Comber's Ball.
Genre	humor; adventure
Script	Frank Doyle
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo
Notes	The manifesto Alex recites ("Breathes there a man with soul so dead who hasn't heard of Alexander Cabot III?") is a mangled version of a passage from Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel."

1 page text article "Brian Hyland, the Bashful Blond"

Genre	fact; music
Letters	Typeset

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Sweet Talk!"

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

5 page Josie story "Force Feed (chapter 4)"

Characters	Josie; Melody; Pepper; Alexander Cabot III; Alexander Cabot II; The Boss; Waldo U. Fink; Ernie Watiko
Synopsis	The smugglers see Pepper wearing the diamonds in her hair and force her to give them up.
Genre	humor; adventure
Script	Frank Doyle
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo