Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual #7

Dates

Cover date

1959

Pages

84

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• The Sad Sack · 10 pages

  Betty agrees to wear a sack dress to school to help increase sales at a store in exchange for her choice of dress. She gets laughed at by everyone at school but a fashion photographer snaps her picture and puts it in a magazine. The sack dresses that everyone laughed at become popular.

• Open Secret · 6 pages

  Betty wants to prove to Veronica that Archie can't be trusted around other women so she writes an anonymous note to him as a secret admirer to see if he'll respond. The note ends up being read by dozens of different boys.

• Come to Grips · 6 pages

  Reggie wins a suitcase for selling the most tickets but he thinks Jughead won and decides to get Jughead beaten up.

• Fish or Foul · 6 pages

  Archie and Reggie won't invite Betty and Veronica on their fishing trip because they think the girls are too prim and proper to be around them on a men's fishing party.

• Merrily Yours · 5 pages

  Mr. Weatherbee starts his day full of the Christmas spirit but gets hit with a snowball, trampled by shoppers, slips on the ice and breaks a gift he bought and then gets fined for littering because of the broken gift. His spirits rise again after receiving a gift of a book of Christmas carols.

• Brain Washed · 4 pages

  Betty has a date for the hayride with Archie but Veronica tricks her into canceling the date.

• Pleasant Schemes · 5 pages

  Jughead devises a scheme to get Betty a date with Archie for the school dance.

• Till Debt Do Us Part · 3 pages

  Archie puts his health in danger to acquire five dollars desperately needed by Jughead.

• Stage Fright! · 2 pages

  Veronica keeps tripping over things at the play because of her false eyelashes.

• Pigskin Happy · 4 pages

  Coach Kleats has a terrible team except for Archie and Reggie but one new player shows a lot of skills. That player turns out to be female.

• Dis-Miss · 0.75 pages
• Untitled · 0.25 pages

  Veronica is tired of Betty chasing after Archie.

• Irresistibly Yours · 3 pages

  Betty buys a new perfume to attract Archie.

• The Scheme of Things · 6 pages

  Veronica's mother interferes in Veronica and Archie's relationship and tries to run schemes to make Veronica look less available.

• Some Total · 0.5 pages
• On Borrowed Time · 0.5 pages

  Jughead is reading a book on how to get rich.

• Play No Favorites · 6 pages

  Miss Grundy is wary of students trying to butter her up when an exam is upcoming.

• Photo Finish · 6 pages

  Betty's tired of always taking second place to Veronica in Archie‘s eyes. Thankfully, Jughead is determined to show Archie the error of his ways... over and over again, by plastering Betty’s photo everywhere!

Characters

Reprinted in

Archie Annual (1951), Archie Comics Digest (1973), Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (1987), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (1977), Archie's Double Digest Magazine (1984), Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (2010), Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (1992), Archie's Favorite High School Comics (2015)