Archie (1943 Archie Comics) 26

Cover by Al Fagaly. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Vigoda and Irving Novick. Archie tries to escape an ugly girl named Esmerelda, who wants to sew her patch on him to take him to the patch hop, in the first Patch Day story "The Patch Hop"! Plus: Archie takes a skull from the school science room to practice his role in Hamlet, but causes chaos when he wears it to avoid Mr. Weatherbee in "The Play's the Thing"; Archie buys some invisible ink, but lands himself in hot water when his father mistakes it for real ink in "The Vanishing Act"; Betty and Veronica try out a ski slope inside Jonamaker's Department Store and end up wrecking the store; Archie and his father set up burglar traps around the house, just in time for rich Uncle Titus to visit, in "There Oughta Be a Law"; and Archie accidentally ends up on a ski trip that Mr. Weatherbee forbade him from attending! Also: 2-page text piece "Hollywood Tattle Tales"! And: "Archie Puzzle Page"! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.