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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published June 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "I have such rich, young blood"

Characters Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Terry Szenics

6 page Jughead story "Paid In Fool"

Characters Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Midge Klump; Moose Mason
Synopsis Jughead becomes a gigolo, not only dating any girl who pays him but disguising himself as any type of man they fantasize about. He takes on Reggie as a junior partner in the business, but Reggie can't resist trying to make some trouble for his new boss by signing up Midge for Jughead's services and tipping off Moose about it.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

2 page Archie story "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Loretta
Synopsis Archie has to take his seven year-old cousin Loretta to a baseball game.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

2 page Jughead story "I Auto Know"

Characters Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Jughead tells the guys about his idea for "drive-in schools."
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Terry Szenics

Half page Moose filler "By the Numbers"

Characters Moose Mason; Waldo Weatherbee
Synopsis Moose argues that his grades aren't really that bad.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Terry Szenics

1 page Nature's Notebook text article "Cattle"

Synopsis Article about different types of cattle.
Genre fact; nature
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Letters Typeset

1 page Jughead story "Professor Jughead's Educational Corner"

Characters Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
Synopsis Professor Jughead lectures on self-defense.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Bill Vigoda ?

Half page Souphead filler "Act Your Age"

Characters Souphead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Souphead has trouble assembling a model airplane.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Bill Vigoda ?

4 page Jughead story "Tricks of the Trade!"

Characters Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
Synopsis Betty wants to spend time with Archie, who needs an old turtle for a science project, so Jughead writes something on the turtle's shell to make it seem like it's older.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Letters Samm Schwartz

1 page Science & Satellites text article "Stations In Space"

Genre fact; science
Pencils Ken Hultgren
Inks Ken Hultgren
Letters Typeset

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Buddies to the End"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Ga Ga
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Jughead activity "One Man Band"

Characters Jughead Jones
Synopsis Jughead asks us to guess what instruments he's pretending to play.
Genre teen; humor
Script Tom Moore
Pencils Tom Moore
Inks Tom Moore
Letters Tom Moore

6 page Jughead story "Foxy Proxy"

Characters Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Midge Klump; Moose Mason
Synopsis Reggie gets the coach to send Archie to a meeting as a proxy for him, so Reggie can take Archie's place with Veronica at a dance. But Veronica is sick, so Jughead chooses Midge to be her proxy for the dance. A terrified Reggie tries to explain to Moose that he's really just dating Midge as a proxy for Archie, and when that doesn't seem to work, he pays Jughead to be his proxy when Moose gets back.
Genre teen; humor
Script Tom Moore
Pencils Samm Schwartz
Inks Samm Schwartz
Notes Credits added in the 1994 reprint.
Reprinted in Reggie's Revenge! (Archie, 1994 series) #1