Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #44

Dates

Cover date

August 1959

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• School Daze · 6 pages

  With the end of term impending, Betty and Veronica go around the school browbeating the other students into not thinking it's a good thing as a favor to Miss Grundy.

• Elvis Presley · Betty Presents the Star of the Month · 1 pages

  Short biography of singer Elvis Presley.

• A Pat Hand · 0.5 pages

  Veronica thinks Reggie is double-jointed.

• Subject to Failing · 0.5 pages

  The good news is that Veronica didn't fail Algebra.

• Sheep Skinned · 6 pages

  Jughead and the other boys accuse the girls of being "sheep" because they always start wearing the latest fashions, whether or not the boys find those new fashions appealing.

• Designing Woman · 5 pages

  When Betty shows off the dress she made herself, and it turns out to be a duplicate of the dress Veronica just bought from Paris, Veronica decides to make sure that Betty never wears that dress.

• Third-Class Male · 0.5 pages

  Jughead gets a little revenge for having to stand in a postal line behind two gossiping women.

• All Cracked Up · 0.5 pages

  Shrimpy has a unique way to clean up spills.

• Time Out · 0.5 pages

  Jenkins has an appointment to keep.

• One Big Pane · 6 pages

  Betty and Veronica attempt to convince Archie that an empty window frame actually contains a pane of glass.

Publisher’s description

Betty & Veronica star in their first comic book series! Take a trip back to the earliest days of Archie Comics as Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge show the town of Riverdale who's really in charge! Prepare to experience the original Betty and Veronica with stories like "School Daze", "Sheep Skinned" and more!

Characters

Reprinted in

Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (1983), The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (1977), Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (1985), B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (2011), Archie Comics Digest (1973), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (1977), Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (1987), Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (2010), Best of Archie Comics Betty and Veronica (2014)