CATALOG RECORD
Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual #4
Dates
- Cover date
- 1956
- On sale
- January 3, 1956
- Pages
- 100
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- All Work and No Hay! · 6 pages
Betty and Veronica both spend time with Jughead to settle whether blondes or brunettes are more alluring to men.
- A Switch in Time · 3 pages
Veronica's date with Moose convinces Mr. Lodge that Archie isn't so bad after all.
- Girl's Eye View · 1 pages
Archie tries to look good for Veronica at the football game, but Veronica only pays attention to the other women watching.
- Heartless · 1 pages
Veronica is heartbroken by the felling of the local heart tree until she falls for the cute lumberjack who cut it down.
- Aches and Dames! · 4 pages
Archie has car trouble on the way to the dance with Betty.
- Party Smarty! · 1 pages
Betty gives up on the idea of receiving a surprise party until she's getting ready for bed.
- Dogged Detour-Mination · 3 pages
Mr. Lodge and Veronica become snowbound in their forest cabin with Archie and a St. Bernard.
- Fancy Flops · 1 pages
Betty tries to show off her skating skills.
- Arrow Escape · 2 pages
Archie tries to teach Betty how to shoot with a bow and arrow.
- Beauty and Her Best · 1 pages
Archie finds one area where men are superior to women.
- All Gassed Up! · 1 pages
Betty pays for Archie's gas and then makes him drain it when he says he plans to pick up Veronica after dropping her off.
- Just Desserts · 3.75 pages
Jughead acts as a judge for the home economics class dressmaking contest, which works in Betty's favor when Veronica intentionally stains Betty's identical dress with food.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Reggie asks Archie for money.
- No Comment · 1 pages
Veronica entertains the mayor until her father arrives home.
- Dress Mess · 1 pages
Betty spends an hour picking her outfit for Archie's visit.
- A Good Reason · 1 pages
Veronica decides to buy a blouse she dislikes because she knows Betty will borrow it and look bad in it.
- Pin Strip Suit · 2.67 pages
Reggie steals Archie's matching pinstripe suit to Veronica's dress and wears it to the dance, not realizing it's only pinned together.
- A Word to the Unwise · 0.33 pages
Archie tells Reggie that an extradition is not a late newspaper.
- Planned Planting · 1 pages
Leroy puts flower pots in the refrigerator to grow frozen food.
- Fur What? · 3.75 pages
Archie has to get Betty a fur piece after she tips him off to Veronica's new fur stole.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Archie and Reggie joke about Jughead's fish stories.
- Seeing the Light! · 2 pages
Betty asks the mayor to install a streetlight on her block.
- Rif Raffle · 2.75 pages
Jughead tries to sell Archie his winning half of their lottery ticket.
- Snow Use! · 0.25 pages
Jughead says that an igloo is an icicle built for two.
- Veronica in Dreamland... · 0.75 pages
A look at Veronica's dreams.
- Betty's Lending Library... · 0.25 pages
Humorous book titles and authors including The Kiss in the Dark by Noah Peekin, Gas Station Romance by Axel Grease, Love in the Rockies by Cliff Dweller, and Hide and Go Seek by Count Von Hundred.
- Caught in the Facts! · 4 pages
When Veronica steals Betty's date with Archie by offering to watch the fights on her "super" 36-inch television, Betty steals Archie back with ringside seats.
- Movie Madness! · 1 pages
Veronica loses her date with Archie because she refuses to see a Gary Lancaster movie.
- Embarrassing Moment! · 0.5 pages
Betty spends time planning her entrance and then slips on a toy on the stairs.
- Sailor Beware! · 0.5 pages
Betty confuses the reaction to her dress with the reaction to a new Gina Lollobrigida movie.
- Early Start! · 0.5 pages
Archie asks for the whole story of Veronica standing him up, so Veronica begins with her birth.
- Lend Lass! · 0.5 pages
Betty offers to pay for Reggie's movie ticket, with the caveat that he pay her back.
- Jean Jam · 2.75 pages
Miffed at having to do all the work on a picnic, Archie and Reggie decide to interpret Betty and Veronica's instructions to bring blue jeans as bringing two women named Jean.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Jughead asks Reggie about shoes.
- All Wet! · 0.5 pages
Betty delivers an umbrella to Archie in the rain.
- Present for Pop! · 0.5 pages
Betty and Alice give Hal a loafer jacket for his birthday.
- Just Friends · 2.75 pages
Archie starts paying more attention to Betty because she has influence with Veronica as her best friend.
- Mushy Love · 0.25 pages
Archie says that if he used the term mush, he'd be traveling with Veronica.
- Form Fitting! · 1 pages
Betty sews a dress that ends up with the same form as the mannequin.
- Heap Cheap · 1 pages
Veronica buys a two-seater so that Betty can't tag along on her dates with Archie, but Betty decides to just sit on Archie's lap instead.
- Gone for the Dogs! · 0.5 pages
Betty hides from company since she has her curlers in.
- Scrapped Heap! · Archie and His Folks · 0.5 pages
Fred and Archie end up keeping everything Mary put in the junk pile.
- Photo Finish! · 2.75 pages
Betty and Veronica try to sabotage Archie and Reggie's photo contest entry by loosening the section of rail along the footbridge where their model will pose.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Reggie agrees that the new girl is striking because she gave him a black eye.
- Dot's a Plenty · 1 pages
Betty and Veronica misunderstand the exchange student's accent.
- Crash on Delivery · 0.75 pages
Betty misunderstands Archie's instruction to brake for the fire hydrant.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Betty goes to a secondhand store for a watch repair.
- Respectable Receptacles! · 2.75 pages
Reggie arranges for Jughead to give his collection of ash receptacles to Veronica, but she rejects them because she thinks they're simple ash trays and has Jughead give them to Betty. They turn out to be antiques collected by Jughead's uncle in the Navy.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Jughead says he asked for two dollars to learn the value of one.
- A Real Snapper · 1 pages
Betty hurries into a hardware store to buy a mousetrap before catching the bus.
- Bulletin Bored · 0.5 pages
Veronica points out the special bulletin board high up on the wall for basketball team notices.
- Sleep Happy · 0.5 pages
Betty tries hypnotizing herself.
- Designing Female · 2.75 pages
Jughead misunderstands Betty's comment about teaching Veronica how to tat and believes that Veronica wants to tattoo Archie.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Archie says that he doesn't feel like going when his conscience is his guide.
- Ice Box Cake · 1 pages
Jughead helps Betty carry a cake, not realizing it's a cake of ice.
- Off the Records! · 1 pages
Archie buys a bunch of classical vinyl records so that he and Jughead can use them as shooting targets.
- Blue Plate Special · 2.75 pages
Veronica orders Archie to find a replacement dish for the one he breaks.
- Untitled · 0.25 pages
Reggie shares what happens to girls who know all the answers.
Characters
Reprinted in
Archie Annual (1951), Archie Giant Series Magazine (1954), Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (2010)