Archie's Girls, Betty and Veronica Annual #8

Dates

Cover date

[January] 1960

On sale

January 29, 1960

Pages

84

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Sweet Sorrow · 6 pages

  When Veronica shows Betty a new dress she bought, Betty becomes despondent because Veronica has so much more than she does.

• The Kiss-Off · 8 pages

  Betty has won a prize of ten kisses from Archie, which she can collect one at a time at any time she wants. Every time she collects a kiss, she turns into a drooling moron, so that some of her teachers think she's smart and others think she's stupid. This complicates matters when she's selected to represent Riverdale High in an inter-school debate.

• Cleaned Up! · 1 pages

  Li'l Jinx washes up.

• Cooking Caper · 4 pages

  Betty and Veronica overhear Archie and Jughead making nasty remarks about their cooking, and are determined to prove them wrong.

• Putting On the Dog! · 10 pages

  Archie and Veronica try to get an invitation to the home of Calvin Colcash, a man even richer than Mr. Lodge. They think they've found a way in when they find a dog that the Colcash butler lost.

• Father Pays Best · 0.5 pages

  Betty makes a catty remark when Archie says that Veronica knows how to dress.

• Show Biz · 6 pages

  Archie has promised to take Betty anywhere she wants for her birthday, but when she wants to go to the carnival, he says no, driving her into despair over his broken promise.

• Star of the Month: James Garner · Betty and Veronica presents · 2 pages

  Article on the star of TV's "Maverick."

• The Conquest · 6 pages

  Betty and Veronica both go to extremes trying to chase after a handsome new boy.

• Sorry, Right Number · 0.5 pages
• Secretly Speaking · 0.5 pages

  Betty thinks Veronica blabbed a secret to Midge.

• Great Skate · 4 pages

  Betty tries to break up Archie and Veronica's skating date on the frozen pond by causing them to skate over thin ice.

• Price War · 6 pages

  Pop Tate announces that he's going out of business because of rising costs. Betty and Veronica advise him to raise his prices, but he refuses. So the girls come up with a different way to lower Pop's costs.

• Big Mouth · 1 pages

  An argument is raging over whether Li'l Jinx is a "big mouth."

• Music Makers · 7 pages

  Veronica joins the school orchestra to be closer to Archie, so Betty joins too, even though she can't play an instrument.

• The Passer-By! · 2 pages

  Jughead makes a trek across town using every form of public transit.

• A Choice Choice · 8 pages

  To take his mother out on her birthday, Archie has to break a date with Veronica. Afraid to break the date, Archie tells Ronnie he's sick. When Veronica finds out, she's angry that Archie thought she wouldn't understand, so she decides to teach him a lesson.

Characters

Reprinted in

Archie Comics Digest (1973), Archie's Double Digest Magazine (1984), Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo (2010), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), Best of Archie Comics Betty and Veronica (2014), Archie Annual Digest (1975), Archie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine (1977), Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (1987), B&V Friends Double Digest Magazine (2011)