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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published September 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "My Selfish Heart"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe
Genre teen
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Jon D'Agostino
Letters Jon D'Agostino

10 page That Wilkin Boy story "My Selfish Heart"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Buddy Drumhead; Tough Teddy; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Uncle Herman
Synopsis Samantha narrates the story of how she felt Bingo wasn't paying enough attention to her and started to transfer her affections to Teddy, only to find that Teddy was a cad.
Genre teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Archie Doll advertisement

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis $2.00 for the Archie Doll
Genre teen

2 page Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe story "Tell It Like It Is!"

Synopsis Letters answered in an advice column.
Genre teen
Script Eda Edwards [as Bingo and Samantha]
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Wishbone Boner"

Characters Roz
Genre children

13 page That Wilkin Boy story "A Moving Scene"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Willie Wilkin; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe
Synopsis Mr. Smythe becomes furious when he learns that a Japanese-American family is moving into the neighborhood, and starts a petition to get them kicked out.
Genre teen
Script Dick Malmgren
Pencils Gus LeMoine
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes This was one of a number of serious, issue-oriented stories the title did in the early '70s, turning Mr. Smythe into a sort of Archie Bunker character. Smythe even uses racist epithets to describe the neighbors, and other characters refer to him as a "bigot." Art identifiable as Gus LeMoine due to the style (see http://www.toonopedia.com/fastwill.htm) Script identifiable as Dick Malmgren due to his distinctive writing style.

1 page Archie Quarter Comics story "Giant Fun-In!"

Genre teen

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Snack Fact!"

Characters Greg
Genre children
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

10 page That Wilkin Boy's Family story "Fairy Tales Can Come True"

Characters Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Uncle Herman Wilkin; Willie Wilkin
Synopsis Uncle Herman claims to have a date, but Willie and Mr. Smythe follow him and discover that he's actually following a pretty nurse home from work without having the nerve to talk to her.
Genre teen
Script Dick Malmgren
Pencils Stan Goldberg
Inks Mario Acquaviva
Letters Bill Yoshida