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| Publication | November 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Archie Andrews |
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| Text Article | Bulletin No. 42 (1 page) |
| Featuring | Shield G-Man Club |
| Credits | Script:? [as Joe Higgins] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: The Shield [Joe Higgins] |
| Notes | "Joe Higgins" lists the names of more children who would like to be pen-pals. |
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| Comic Story | No Body's Dummy (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Archie gets a dressmaker's dummy for Veronica's sewing class, but several people mistake the manikin for a real girl, which leads to lots of problems. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Joe; Henry; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy |
| Notes | In the book Archie: His First 50 Years (Abbeville Press, 1991), author Charles Phillips describes this story as "possibly the funniest (Archie) story to appear during the 1940s."
Pencil credits from World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #51. |
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| Activity | Pep Contest Page (1 page) |
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| Synopsis | When Eddie Van Clacken invites Katy to a party, Katy has to decide which reader-submitted design to wear. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Katy Keene; Eddie Van Clacken; Sis |
| Notes | Fashions supplied by Ruth Brown, Marjorie Trammell, Patty Gill, Jeanne Shern, Joan Allore, Arthur Taylor, Barry Waddle, Lupe Serna, Marion Yee, Harriet Kruss, Ivan Kirov, Peggy Sue Coleman, Jean Carpenter, Frances Yates, Estella Dowling, Terry Saraceno, Kay Binder, Eleanor Goldman, Joyce Smith, Emmalee Freeman, Mrs. Earl Sands, Frank Knight |
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| Featuring | Katy Keene |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Woggon (signed) | Inks: Bill Woggon (signed) | Letters: Bill Woggon (signed) |
| Content | Characters: Katy Keene |
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| Comic Story | Death Takes No Holiday (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Shield and Dusty investigate a series of accidents at a circus. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daro; Risa; Strongo; Midge; The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty [Dusty Simmons]; Phil; Leo |
| Notes | This is the final non-reprint appearance of the rotating "The Shield [MLJ/Archie]"/"The Shield with Dusty the Boy Detective" features in Pep Comics.
"The Shield [MLJ/Archie]" feature will next appear in Fly Man (Archie, 1965 Series) #34 or The Mighty Crusaders (Archie, 1965 Series) #1, both dated November 1965.
"The Shield with Dusty the Boy Detective" feature does not appear again.
Final non-reprint Golden Age appearance of The Shield [Joe Higgins]. He appears next in The Mighty Crusaders (Archie, 1965 Series) #1 (November 1965). (His successor, The Shield [Bill Higgins], first appeared a few months earlier in Adventures of the Fly (Archie, 1960 Series) #31 (May 1965).)
Final non-reprint Golden Age appearance of Dusty [Dusty Simmons]. He appears next in The Mighty Crusaders (Archie, 1965 Series) #4 (April 1966). |
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| Text Story | Man's Best Friend (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Archie's dad wants Archie to get rid of his dog, Oscar. |
| Featuring | Archie |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Oscar; Mary Andrews |
| Notes | Rewritten from the story Oscar the Watchdog in Archie Comics #4. |
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| Synopsis | Gloomy Gus and Gabby take over the bodies of a dead president and prime minister of a revolutionary country. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Gloomy Gus; Gabby; Pete |
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| Activity | Pep Comics Hollywood Quiz Page (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Archie Andrews |
| Notes | Match the celebrity first and last names; cut out and piece together the caricature to identify him. |
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| Synopsis | Willy puts up a mirror which makes members of his family look fat. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Willy; Willy's sister; Willy's mom; Willy's dad |
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| Featuring | Pep Comics Puzzle Page |
| Content | Characters: Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Gloomy Gus; Suzie; The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper |
| Notes | A word square, a word ladder and a connect-the-dots. |
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| Synopsis | Li'l Jinx's dad gives her some pants to take to the tailor to be shortened. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Li'l Jinx; Bill Bubblegum |
| Notes | First appearance of Li'l Jinx's father in typical character design. |
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| Advertisement | America's Greatest Zipper Billfold Bargain! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Advertisement | Joe DiMaggio's Own Story! (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Joe DiMaggio (photograph) |
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| Advertisement | The 97 Pound Weakling (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Charles Atlas (photograph) |
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| Advertisement | Pals in Pleasure (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Baby Ruth ad.
Back cover. |
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