Dates
- Cover date
- 1957-58
- Pages
- 100
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
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Stories
- For Betty or Worse · Archie · 6 pages
Archie makes a date with Betty, but Betty thinks Veronica will make Archie cancel for a ride in her new car. Betty sabotages Veronica's car. After Archie and Jughead spend the afternoon fixing it, Betty hides in the trunk to surprise Archie and Veronica. But when she pops out, all she finds is Jughead who is taking the car on a test run.
- Scent Sore · Archie · 6 pages
Veronica has an exclusive perfume made for her, which makes Betty jealous. Jughead is trying to invent an insecticide for roses, but his concoction ends up smelling just like Veronica's perfume. Betty takes advantage of the similarity to come up with a scheme to make Archie think Veronica is playing around with other boys.
- Past Performance! · 6 pages
Veronica and her parents are spending the summer in a rented cabin. They find a trunk of turn of the century women's clothes that was left in the cabin. When the rest of the gang arrives for a visit, Veronica plays a nasty trick on Betty by hiding her suitcase and forcing her to wear the out-dated clothes in the trunk. However, the antique clothes attract the attention of a handsome young man, ruining Veronica's plan.
- Slap Happy · Archie · 5 pages
Reggie tries to convince Archie that women like to be treated roughly. Archie and Veronica decide to trick Reggie with a stunt where Archie pretends to slap Veronica and Veronica claps her hands behind her back to provide a sound effect. They perform the stunt twice, knowing Reggie is hiding and watching. Reggie thinks that Archie did hit Veronica and decks Archie, thinking that will get him in good with her. Instead, Veronica decks him. Reggie now believes that girls do like the rough stuff, so when he sees Betty, he casually gives her a backhand slap. She responds with a fist to his face.
- A Loan and Blue! · Reggie · 6 pages
Reggie gives a lecture every time someone wants to borrow anything. After Veronica borrows Reggie's tennis racquet and accidentally ruins it, the gang is sitting through another lecture when Jughead discovers that the racquet was one that Reggie had borrowed from Veronica years before.
- Voice and Girls Together · Archie · 6 pages
Archie and Reggie are lovesick over the new girl Vilma. Betty and Veronica try pampering the boys, but that doesn't work. Jughead ends up being the solution to the problem when Vilma flips over him.
- Man's Best Friend · Reggie · 6 pages
Reggie torments a dog in a pet shop window. Later Veronica buys the dog and Reggie keeps tormenting it. Veronica, unaware of the abuse, gives the dog to Reggie for his birthday and the dog gets his revenge.
- Weak End · Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica · 6 pages
Reggie keeps jumping to conclusions and thinks Archie is going away for the weekend and Veronica will be free to date him. It doesn't work out that way.
- Gemini Crickets · Archie's Pal Jughead · 6 pages
Jughead's horoscope says today will be his lucky day. Instead he gets caught up in a scheme by Midge to teach Moose not to be so jealous.
- Fancy Pants · Archie · 3 pages
- Mutual Aggravation Society · 6 pages
Veronica says she and Archie are compatible because of "true love." Betty tests the theory by sending Jughead over for the afternoon, figuring if Veronica can stand Jughead when he's a complete nuisance, it's only because he's Archie's pal.
- Clothing Dummy · Archie · 6 pages
Every time Betty buys a new dress, Veronica buys the same style and comes up with a scheme to make Betty takes hers back. Betty finally catches on and gets her revenge.
- Fin-Angled! · 3 pages
Archie tries to keep Veronica away from Reggie at the beach. He comes up with a plan where Jughead wears a fin while scuba-diving and pretends to be a shark in order to impress Veronica. After going through with the stunt, he finds that the shark was real.
- Mooseketeer · Reggie · 5 pages
Jughead convinces Reggie that Moose, like all bullies, is a coward at heart. He uses padding and makeup to make Reggie look like a thug, figuring Moose will flee. However, Midge has made Moose promise not to fight anyone smaller than him, so when this large character appears on the scene; Moose thinks it's ok to demolish him.
- Fan My Brow · Archie's Pal Jughead · 5 pages
Mr. Weatherbee thinks it's too hot to grade the final exams. The gang is upset when Jughead brings a window fan for Mr. Weatherbee's office, but there's a method to his madness.
- Phony Pony · 6 pages
Archie plans on attending a masquerade party as a cowboy riding a horse, but Jughead and Reggie don't want to play the part of his horse. He manages to come up with a substitute.