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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published June 1960
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Harry Shorten

Cover Details - "I Trust Archie"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Cousin Sally (Andrews?)
Synopsis Archie is walking a pretty girl around and Veronica isn't upset in the least.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo ?

6 page Betty And Veronica story "I Trust Him"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Cousin Sally (Andrews?); Jughead Jones; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis To the disbelief of everyone, Archie is escorting a beautiful young woman around Riverdale and Veronica isn't the least bit concerned.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo
Notes Both Betty and Jughead break "the fourth wall" and address the readers directly during the story.

1 page text article "The War Of 1812"

Synopsis A brief overview of the War of 1812 between the United States and England.
Genre historical
Letters typeset

Half page Archie story "Curfew Blues"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Archie objects to Mr. Lodge's curfew demands concerning Veronica.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo
Notes The Archie faces in this story may be production paste-ups by a different artist.

Half page Moose story "A Woman's Intuition"

Characters Moose Mason; Midge Klump
Synopsis Moose can't figure out how Midge knows he's following her.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Winner Take All"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; unidentified Riverdale co-eds.
Synopsis In order to raise funds for the United Sororities Fund, Veronica donates an evening with Archie as a prize.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "They Said It Couldn't Be Done!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Harry Lucey
Notes Advertisement for Archie Annual #12.

4 page Betty And Veronica story "Chris-Crossed"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Betty tries to keep Veronica away from a handsome new boy at Pop's, not knowing that the boy is Veronica's cousin Chris.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Dan DeCarlo; Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

Half page Reggie story "Fite Fright"

Characters Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason
Synopsis Reggie trains for a boxing match against Moose.
Genre Teen

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Draw Flaw"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday
Synopsis Jinx is disappointed by the picture she's painting.
Genre Humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

Half page Archie story "Baseballitis"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Veronica is disappointed with Archie's dedication to baseball.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo

Half page Archie story "Double Play"

Characters Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; unidentified spectators
Synopsis Jughead and Archie commiserate about the high school baseball team being short-handed.
Genre Teen
Script Bob White ?
Pencils Bob White
Inks Bob White

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Glad To Be Bad"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Weatherbee; Mr. Flutesnoot; Jughead Jones
Synopsis The Riverdale faculty are at wits end over the distraction Veronica is causing among the male students.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Vincent DeCarlo
Letters Vincent DeCarlo
Notes Dan DeCarlo caricatures himself as one of the students getting into a violent argument over Betty on page 5. The other "students" may be caricatures of other Archie Comics staffers.