Issue | #6 |
Published | May 1964 |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Richard Goldwater |
Characters | Josie; Melody; Pepper; August September |
Synopsis | The cover consists of the splash page from the issue, with a new drawing of one of the villains added in a box on the right-hand corner. |
Genre | humor; mystery |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo |
Notes | No credits; but art is by DeCarlo. |
Characters | Josie; Melody; Pepper; June July; August September |
Synopsis | The girls notice that there's a light on in an old abandoned mansion. They go to investigate and find that the place is inhabited by two middle-aged people, June July and August "Augie" September. June knocks the girls out with drugged sodas and has Augie lock them in the tower room. |
Genre | humor; mystery |
Script | Frank Doyle |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo |
Notes | Part one of a four-part, issue-length story. Script identifiable as Doyle by his distinctive style as well as DeCarlo's statement that Doyle did "all the writing" for the early Josie issues (http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=1645). |
Characters | Josie; Melody; Pepper; June July; August September |
Synopsis | The girls discover that there's a network of secret passages and hidden entrances in the house. They escape from the tower room and discover that June and Augie are looking for the jewels stolen by June's late husband, the gangster Johnny July. Pepper comes up with a way to scare the crooks by convincing them that Johnny has come back from the dead. |
Genre | humor; mystery |
Script | Frank Doyle |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo |
Notes | Part two of a four-part, issue-length story. |
Characters | Josie; Melody; Pepper; June July; August September |
Synopsis | Using the secret passages, the girls make June and Augie believe that Johnny July has come back as a ghost. |
Script | Frank Doyle |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo |
Notes | Part one of a four-part, issue-length story. |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday |
Synopsis | Li'l Jinx doesn't agree that childhood is a happy time. |
Genre | humor; children |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Josie; Melody; Pepper; June July; August September; un-named cop |
Synopsis | After Melody gives away their scheme, the girls have to split up to try and escape from June and Augie. |
Genre | humor; mystery |
Script | Frank Doyle |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo |
Notes | Part four of a four-part, issue-length story. Pepper says that the only law June and Augie broke was trespassing, which isn't true (drugging people and kidnapping them is also a crime). |
Characters | Josie; Melody; Pepper |
Synopsis | Josie, Melody and Pepper each wear a different costume for the school play. |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo |