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Issue Details

Issue #248
Published August 1976
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.30 USD
Pages 36
Editing John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard Goldwater (managing editor)

Cover Details - "Betty Stole My Archie"

Characters Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis Veronica is angry that Betty is flirting with Archie at the Lodge tennis courts. Her father can think of worse things.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Dan DeCarlo

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Love Starved"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Lovey Laverne
Synopsis The girls insist that Jughead eats all the time out of frustration, while Archie thinks that he just eats "'cause he's hungry." To prove that the love of a good woman can cure him of his eating habit, the girls set Jughead up with the irresistibly sweet Lovey Laverne, and Jughead promptly falls in love with her.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Bill Yoshida

Half page Li'l Jinx story "The Ears Have It"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday
Genre Humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Joe Edwards

Half page Betty And Veronica story "Betty And Veronica's Gag Bag"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones
Genre Teen
Pencils Bob Montana
Inks Bob Montana
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Notes Due to the style of dress and the four-panel continuity, these are probably two late fifties to early sixties era Archie syndicated newspaper strips.

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Pocketful Of Dreams"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Archie rips his coat pocket on a doorknob as he and Veronica are going out on a date. Veronica brings him over to Betty's house to get it fixed, and Betty tries to delay their date by taking as long over the sewing as she possibly can.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman ?

5 page Betty And Veronica story "State Of Mind"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Virginia Cleary
Synopsis The girls face a rival in the shapely form of Virginia Cleary, a seductive, boy-crazy girl who just moved to town.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Notes One of Doyle and DeCarlo's first attempts at creating a new character who would be more aggressively sexy than either Betty or Veronica. A similar character, Cheryl Blossom, emerged several years later.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Betty And Veronica Summer"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Advertisement for Betty And Veronica Summer Spectacular #250.
Pencils Rudy Lapick ?
Inks Rudy Lapick ?

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Laugh Digest"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Advertisement for Laugh Comics Digest #6.
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Dan DeCarlo
Notes Art is the same for ad for Laugh Comics Digest #5 (June 1976).

5 page Betty And Veronica story "Scheme Scream"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Pop Tate; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
Synopsis To get her away from Archie, Veronica gets Betty hired as the first female disc jockey at Mr. Lodge's radio station.
Genre Teen
Script George Gladir
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Bill Yoshida