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Issue Details

Issue #316
Published April 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief); Victor Gorelick (art director)

Cover Details - "Girl's Pants, Boy's Pants"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Archie Andrews; Dilton Doiley; two unidentified female students
Synopsis The fashion pants the Home Economics class is working on meets with the approval of the male students.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Inks Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page Betty And Veronica story "Call Of The Wild"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
Synopsis Veronica gives Archie a pager so she can keep tabs on him. Jughead takes the pager surreptitiously and gives Veronica something to keep tabs on.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Jim DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

Half page Li'l Jinx's Chum, Charley story "What A Flake"

Characters Charley Hawse; Li'l Jinx
Synopsis Charley has fun in the snow with Jinx.
Genre humor
Script Joe Edwards (signed)
Pencils Joe Edwards (signed)
Inks Joe Edwards (signed)
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards (signed)

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

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis Archie and Reggie reminisce about pelting the girls with snowballs as kids.
Genre Teen
Script Michael Gallagher ?
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards
Notes This is a reprint of a late-seventies era Archie syndicated newspaper strip.
Reprinted from ?

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Of Ownership"

Script Louis Silberkleit
Letters typeset
Notes Filed October 1, 1981; Owners Close-Up, Inc, and Archie Enterprises, Inc, both of 1116 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10021; Publisher Close-up, Inc, Editor John L. Goldwater, Managing Editor Richard Goldwater; Total Paid Circulation, avg 12 months: 90,586.

1 page Veronica activity "Memories"

Characters Veronica Lodge
Synopsis Code-solving puzzle with a theme of reminiscing.
Genre teen
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Joe Edwards

5 page Betty And Veronica story "Royal Treatment"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Prince Chandu; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis Veronica refuses to believe that Betty is bringing an actual Prince to her ball.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Jim DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Dear Betty And Veronica letters page "There Is A Guy"

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

5 page Betty And Veronica story "Pride Goeth Before A Sale"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis Betty's pride won't let her take a hand-me-down coat from Veronica, so Mr. Lodge comes up with a plan to get the coat in Betty's hands while saving her pride.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo Jr. ?
Inks Jim DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Betty's Fashions illustration "Country Classics"

Characters Betty Cooper
Synopsis No story; Betty models fashion designs submitted by readers.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Inks Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Veronica's Fashions illustration "USA"

Characters Veronica Lodge
Synopsis No story; Veronica models fashion designs submitted by readers.
Genre Teen
Pencils Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Inks Dan DeCarlo (signed)
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes Bill Yoshida mistakenly credits Betty Cooper as modeling one of the designs in the credit cut line.

5 page Betty And Veronica story "The Cold Facts"

Characters Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis Veronica is livid that Archie didn't stand in a raging snowstorm waiting for her to be fashionably late for their date. But she's not as livid as Mr. Lodge becomes when he hears his daughter's reasoning.
Genre Teen
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Jim DeCarlo
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida