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Issue Details

Issue	#40
Published	September-October 1949
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Editing	Harry Shorten

Cover Details

Genre	Teen
Pencils	Bill Vigoda
Inks	Bill Vigoda

7 page Archie story "The Renting Agent"

Characters	I: A veteran, Peggy (his wife), and their two children
Pencils	Bill Vigoda
Inks	Bill Vigoda

5 page Archie story "The Close Shave"

Characters	Archie Andrews; Mr. Andrews; Mrs. Andrews; Jughead Jones; Tony (intro)
Genre	teen
Pencils	Bill Vigoda
Inks	Bill Vigoda
Notes	Archie attempts his first shave!
Reprinted	in Archie Americana Series, Best Of The Forties (Archie, 1991 series) #1

5 page Archie story "The Love Call"

Genre	Teen
Pencils	Bill Vigoda
Inks	Bill Vigoda

3 page Archie story "The Heat's On"

Characters	I: Jack
Pencils	Ray Gill
Inks	Ray Gill

2 page text story "Hollywood Tattle Tales"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Archie (Hollywood report)

6 page Archie story "Monkey Business"

Genre	Teen
Pencils	Ray Gill?
Inks	Ray Gill?

7 page Archie story "Prisoner of Love"

Genre	Teen
Pencils	Ray Gill
Inks	Ray Gill

8 page Jughead story "The Leather Pusher"

Genre	Teen
Pencils	Ray Gill?
Inks	Ray Gill?
Notes	Jughead's first official solo strip in ARCHIE