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Issue Details

Issue #164
Published August 1969
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard Goldwater (managing editor)

Cover Details - "Catching Winks"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; unidentified beach studs
Synopsis While Betty seeks sleep at the beach, Veronica prefers to bask in the attention.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Dan DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman ?

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Touch Me Not"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Midge Klump; Moose Mason; Hot Dog
Synopsis Jughead maintains he can't stand the touch of a female and that he'd even know a feminine touch blindfolded.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman ?

1 page Li'l Jinx story "Early Bird"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Hap Holiday
Synopsis Hap exhorts Jinx not to procrastinate.
Genre Humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Dear Betty And Veronica letters page "A Boy I Like"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis "Betty" and "Veronica" answer reader letters.
Script Eda Edwards [as Betty and Veronica]
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Joe Edwards

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Pre-Season Warm Up"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Smithers the butler; Gloria Tiltsnoot
Synopsis Veronica buys a very expensive, original, designer swim suit that is very revealing (for 1969, anyway). But everybody thinks that the suit has been attacked by moths.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman ?

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Make The Summer Scene"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
Pencils Harry Lucey
Inks Harry Lucey
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Notes Advertisement for Archie Giant Series #164.

5 page Veronica story "Excluded"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Smithers the butler; Hiram Lodge; Betty Cooper
Synopsis After a lover's spat, Veronica's plans to keep Archie out of the Lodge estate net everyone but Archie.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Joe Edwards ?
Colors Barry Grossman ?

1 page Veronica story "Lonely Night"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis Veronica can't understand why no one has called asking her for a date.
Genre Teen
Colors Barry Grossman ?

6 page Veronica story "String Along"

Characters Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Veronica manages to get The Archies booked at Mr. Lodge's country club, then goes about remaking their images and song catalog to fit the upscale club's image.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman ?