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Pep #141

Archie · Series began 1960 · September 1960

Dates

Cover date
September 1960
On sale
June 28, 1960
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Harry Lucey, Jack Sparling, Joe Edwardsinks: Jack Sparling, Joe Edwardsscript: Joe Edwards, Bill Woggonletters: Joe Edwards

Stories

  • The King Is Back · 6 pages

    Archie's newest music craze is the bongos. Mr. Lodge reviews Archie's previous music fads as an Elvis-style rocker and then a ukulele player from the Roaring '20s. This time the bongo rhythm captures Mr. Lodge and Jervis the butler and they do a set on the bongos and double-bass.

  • Mis-Count! · 0.5 pages

    Shrimpy and his friend count all the pebbles on the beach, but come up with conflicting numbers.

  • Keeping Score! · 0.5 pages

    A girl writes an impossibly large number on a fence (1 followed by many zeroes) and then tells Shrimpy that's how many times she hates him.

  • Knowledge Is Power · 1 pages

    Reggie gets the only "A" in the class for his composition. His trick was to write about "Our Underpaid Teachers."

  • Trapeze Trouble · 6 pages

    Katy plays a trapeze artist in a circus movie. She befriends a circus gorilla who saves her when a pole breaks.

  • Balloon Sur-Prizes · 4.33 pages

    Jinx's father is on the entertainment committee for the country club dance and is in charge of providing balloons. Jinx and Greg take some of the balloons and put slips of paper with prizes written on them in them, intending to use them for a party of their own. However, their balloons get taken to the adult dance and there's trouble when there are no prizes to match to the slips of paper.

  • Li'l Jinx Pen Pals · 0.67 pages
  • No Delay · 0.67 pages

    Jughead can't wait for dinner, so he sits and eats inside the refrigerator.

  • Unfair Tactics · 6 pages

    Archie gets in trouble with all his teachers and is ordered to report to the principal's office after school. Mr. Weatherbee uses some reverse psychology to get Archie to change his ways.

Characters

Li'l JinxHap HollidayGregMerry Holliday

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