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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published December 1964
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Melody can't be our water boy!"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper; Coach
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Notes Re-colored version of the issue's splash page.

8 page Josie story "Team Spirit (Chapter 1)"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Coach
Synopsis The football team has elected Melody water boy, and her body is distracting all the players. In exchange for getting Melody off the team, Josie and Pepper insist that the Coach allow the klutzy Albert to play.
Genre humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Notes This issue-length story features an early appearance of the evil school Central High, which would become a regular opponent for Archie's school in later comics.

6 page Josie story "No Help Wanted (Chapter 2)"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Jinx Molloy
Synopsis Melody tries to get Jinx Molloy, whose bad luck aura affects everyone except her, onto the football team. After Jinx's presence turns football practice into a disaster, the Coach makes Melody promise that she won't come near the team at tomorrow's game against Central High.
Genre humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick

5 page Josie story "Sideline Stars (Chapter 3)"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Jinx Molloy
Synopsis Melody shocks everyone by sitting on the Central High side of the stadium at the big football game. But it turns out that both she and Jinx Molloy are there to help Melody's school by "helping" Central High.
Genre humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick

5 page Josie story "The Last Man (Chapter 4)"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper; Albert; Alexander Cabot III; Jinx Molloy
Synopsis The presence of Jinx Molloy causes so many injuries on both sides that the Coach has only one player left to put into the game: the hapless Albert.
Genre humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Right Or Wrong!"

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