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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published March-April 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Harry Shorten

Cover Details

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Genre teen
Pencils Harry Sahle (signed)
Inks Harry Sahle

1 page illustration "Jughead pin-up"

Characters Jughead Jones
Genre teen
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle
Letters Harry Sahle
Notes inside front cover

1 page Archie foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "preview page"

Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

11 page Archie story "Double Date"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones (cameo)
Synopsis Archie accidentally ends up with two dates on the same night and he tries to keep them both.
Genre teen
Script Ed Goggin
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Janice Valleau (Ginger)
Notes Betty and Veronica are definitely rivals for Archie now!
Reprinted in Archie: His First 50 Years (Abbeville Press, 1991 series) #[nn]; in Archie Americana Series, Best Of The Forties (Archie, 1991 series) #1

6 page Bumbie story "Hocus pocus! Hocuspocus!"

Characters Bumbie; Buzzie (Bumbie's nephew); Hocus; Pocus
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards

4 page Oscar story "Oscar Pulls a Boner"

Characters Oscar; Mr. Whipple (introduction); Mrs. Whipple (introduction)
Script Ed Goggin
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Janice Valleau (Ginger)
Notes Story title from contents page.

6 page Veronica and Betty story "Ration Trouble"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Tim Paine; Tom Paine
Genre teen
Script Ed Goggin
Pencils Janice Valleau (Ginger)
Inks Janice Valleau
Notes Story title from contents page; nothing to do w/ rationing

2 page Archie text story "Archie's Victory Garden"

Characters Archie Andrews
Genre teen
Script Curley Cole
Letters typeset

7 page Archie story "Archie and Grandpa"

Characters Archie Andrews; Grandpa Andrews
Genre teen
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Janice Valleau ?

6 page Cubby story "I've got to rush this first aid kit..."

Characters Cubby
Genre funny animals
Script Joe Edwards ?
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards

5 page Li'l Souphead story "Quiz Kid"

Characters Souphead Jones; Prof. Albert Birdbrain (introduction); Remington Salisbury, Jr. (introduction)
Genre humor
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Janice Valleau ?

6 page Archie story "Time Trouble"

Characters Archie Andrews
Genre teen
Pencils Harry Sahle ?
Inks Janice Valleau ?