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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published April 2002
Cover Price $1.99 USD
Pages 36
Editing Victor Gorelick; Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details - "The Love Bug Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
Genre teen; humor; suspense
Pencils Fernando Ruiz (signed)
Inks Rich Koslowski (signed)

6 page Archie's Weird Mysteries story "The Love Bug Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out! (Chapter One)"

Characters Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Professor Benjamin Flutesnoot; Wendy Wistful; Mr. Svenson (cameo); Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Dilton Doiley; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Ethel Muggs
Synopsis Professor Flutesnoot invites Wendy Wistful -- a leading expert on aromatherapy, and an old crush of the Professor's-- to help him teach a class on the effects of aromatherapy. Suddenly, a butterfly is doused in a powerful pheromone and sprinkles the potion over the class, causing all the couples to spontaneously change partners.
Genre teen; humor; suspense
Script Paul Castiglia
Pencils Fernando Ruiz (pg. 1 (signed); 2-6)
Inks Rich Koslowski (pg. 1 (?); pgs. 2-6)
Colors Stephanie Vozzo
Letters Vickie Williams
Notes The opening splash page is signed by Fernando Ruiz only. He may have been the inker as well as the artist.

2 page Know Your Heroes! story "The Origin of Black Jack"

Characters Black Jack [Detective Jack Jones]
Genre superhero
Script Paul Castiglia
Pencils James Fry
Inks Andrew Pepoy

5 page Archie's Weird Mysteries story "The Love Bug Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out! (Chapter Two)"

Characters Archie Andrews; Professor Benjamin Flutesnoot; Waldo Weatherbee; Wendy Wistful; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle; Ethel Muggs; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley; Midge Klump; Pop Tate
Synopsis Concerned with the love-drugged class, Professor Flutesnoot breaks Archie out of his narcissistic spell. Then, the two of them go to see the only man who might help them: Beaumont.
Genre teen; humor; suspense
Script Paul Castiglia
Pencils Fernando Ruiz
Inks Rich Koslowski
Colors Stephanie Vozzo
Letters Vickie Williams

2 page letters page "Sightings"

Letters typeset

6 page Archie's Weird Mysteries story "The Love Bug Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out! (Chapter Three)"

Characters Archie Andrews; Professor Benjamin Flutesnoot; Beamount; Waldo Weatherbee; Wendy Wistful; Betty Cooper; Moose Mason; Midge Klump; Dilton Doiley; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Chuck Clayton; Nancy Woods; Reggie Mantle; Ethel Muggs; Beatrice Beazly;
Synopsis Beamount says to give the aromatherapy time and it will wear off naturally. So, at the dance, Professor Flutesnoot breaks Wendy out of the spell by complimenting her. Archie then briefly shorts the lights at the dance, and when they come back on, the potion's effects have worn off. Everyone is back to normal, except Reggie and Ethel, who find they really like each other.
Genre teen; humor; suspense
Script Paul Castiglia
Pencils Fernando Ruiz
Inks Rich Koslowski
Colors Stephanie Vozzo
Letters Vickie Williams

1 page Archie's Weird Mysteries advertisement "The Attack Of the Hybrid Monster!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper
Genre teen; humor; suspense
Pencils Fernando Ruiz (signed)
Inks Fernando Ruiz (signed)
Notes Picture from the next issue with a hybrid monster made up of all the creatures Archie has met in this series.

5 page Sam Squatch story "How Not to Capture A Bigfoot!"

Characters Sam Squatch (a Bigfoot monster); Waldo Weatherbee; Hiram Lodge
Synopsis Sam Squatch narrates a story of how not to catch a Bigfoot when Mr. Lodge and Mr. Weatherbee come after him.
Genre teen; humor; suspense
Script Paul Castiglia
Pencils Fernando Ruiz
Inks Rich Koslowski
Colors Stephanie Vozzo
Letters Vickie Williams

1 page Archie's Weird Mysteries advertisement

Characters Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Geraldine Grundy
Genre teen; humor; suspense
Pencils Fernando Ruiz
Notes Shows the cover for Archie's Weird Mysteries #20.