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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published April 1970
Frequency seven times per year
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard Goldwater (managing editor)

Cover Details - "I Just Happened To Be Passing By"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
Synopsis Betty just "happens" to wander over to the Andrews house - - in waist deep snow.
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Betty And Me story "Wedded Bliss"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Ethel Muggs; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Ethel overhears Archie and Betty exchanging marriage what-ifs, assumes they're married and starts spreading the news around.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

Half page Dear Betty letters page "To Most Boys, I'm Cute"

Characters Betty Cooper
Synopsis "Betty" answers reader letters.
Script Eda Edwards [as Betty]
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Of Ownership"

Script Louis Silberkleit
Letters typeset
Notes Filed October 1, 1969; Listed owners Close-Up, Inc, and John L. Goldwater, both of 1116 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10021; Publisher Close-Up, Inc; Editor John L. Goldwater; Managing Editor Richard Goldwater; Total Paid Circulation, 12 month average: 306,058.

1 page Betty cartoon "What A Moon"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Betty and Archie are alone under a romantic moonlit sky, so naturally Archie says the least romantic thing he can think of.
Genre Teen
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Betty And Me story "Help The Needy"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Hal Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Betty decides the way to impress Archie is to show him how capable she is at any endeavor.
Genre Teen
Script Dick Malmgren
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

5 page Betty And Me story "That's The Breaks"

Characters Betty Cooper; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Betty is the epitome of bursting teenage excitement because Archie actually asked her to go rollerskating, in front of Veronica no less.
Genre Teen
Script Dick Malmgren
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Fill 'er Up"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday
Synopsis Hap tries to diagnose why Jinx has an upset stomach.
Genre Humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards

6 page Betty And Me story "The Mechanic"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Alice Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Betty's new prowess with auto mechanics impresses Archie so much that he asks her to the dance over Veronica.
Genre Teen
Script Dick Malmgren
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes On page 3, panel 2, Betty states that she read some auto manuals to learn auto mechanics so she and Archie would have something in common. This may be the start of Betty's knowledge of auto mechanics that came to characterize her in the eighties and beyond.