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Issue Details

Issue #263
Published November 1977
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.35 USD
Pages 36
Editing John L. Goldwater (editor); Richard Goldwater (managing editor)

Cover Details - "Good Putt, Veronica"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis While Veronica and Reggie are concentrating on their game at the miniature golf links, Archie and Betty are concentrating on each other - - to Veronica's annoyance.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Dan DeCarlo

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Verse Than Ever"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Veronica thinks that she and her friend should be referred to as "Veronica and Betty," because it's easier to rhyme "Betty" in case someone wants to write a song about them.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Josie; Hostess advertisement "So Spoiled"

Characters Josie McCoy; Valerie Brown; Alexandria Cabot
Synopsis Hostess ad.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick

Half page Li'l Jinx's Pal, Fat Charley story "How's The Weather"

Characters Charley Hawse, Li'l Jinx
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; Hiram Lodge
Genre Teen
Script Bob Montana
Pencils Bob Montana
Inks Bob Montana
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Notes Judging from the style of clothing and the four-panel continuity, this is probably a reprint of two late fifties to early sixties era Archie syndicated newspaper strips.
Reprinted from ?

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Ploy Play"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Midge Klump; Hal Cooper; Alice Cooper
Synopsis Betty tries to attract Archie by playing hard to get.
Genre Teen
Script George Gladir
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman ?
Letters Bill Yoshida

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Archie's Digest"

Characters Dilton Doily; Moose Mason; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Advertisement for Archie Comics Digest #27.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Archie's 3 For $1.00 Offer"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Advertisement for Archie Comics "Three Issues For $1.00" offer.

5 page Betty And Veronica story "Video Vexation"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Midge Klump; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Pop Tate; Dilton Doily
Synopsis All the boys are more interested in video games than girls. The girls decide to become experts at video games and beat the boys, in the hope that it'll kill their interest in the games.
Genre Teen
Script George Gladir
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman
Notes The script for this story is a partial remake of the story "Speed Deed" from Betty and Veronica # 126, also by Gladir and DeCarlo. In that story, the girls and boys took up model car racing; here that's replaced by video games.

1 page Veronica activity "You Name Them"

Characters Veronica Lodge
Genre teen

5 page Betty And Veronica story "Cover Up"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Frankie Valdez; Maria Rodriguez; Midge Klump; Moose Mason
Synopsis Frankie doesn't have any problem seeing the other girls on the beach in revealing swimwear. However, the sight of Maria in swimwear drives him to possessively try to cover her up.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman ?