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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published May 1964
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "Pepper! Josie! Look!"

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.

8 page Josie story "Tower of Trouble (Chapter One)"

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).

6 page Josie story "Pipe Dream (Chapter Two)"

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.

5 page Josie story "Oh, Johnny, Oh! (Chapter Three)"

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.

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Growing Pains!"

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

5 page Josie story "September Song (Chapter Four)"

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).

1 page Melody cartoon "Melody's Pin-Up"

Characters Josie; Melody; Pepper
Synopsis Josie, Melody and Pepper each wear a different costume for the school play.
Pencils Dan DeCarlo