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| Date | | Number: 65 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Pep Comics 65 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: bi-monthly | Editing: Harry Shorten? |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1948. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Teen |
| Characters | Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Mr. Cooper |
| Pencils | Al Fagaly (signed) |
| Inks | Al Fagaly (signed) |
| First Line | Mr. Cooper, will you please tell Betty it's time for me to go home! |
| Publisher advertisement | Bulletin No. 43 - Shield G-Man Club (1 page) |
| Feature | Shield G-Man Club |
| Script | ? [as Joe Higgins] |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | The Shield [Joe Higgins] |
| First Line | Merry Christmas, gang! |
| Notes | Interior front cover. Features an illustration of the Shield G-Man Club badge. Indicia information included. |
| Comic Story | Weeny Roast! / Archie (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Archie invites Veronica to a weenie roast, but discovers he has to work his job delivering weenies. When Veronica comes up with the idea of placing an order, so that Archie can deliver it to her, Reggie tries to double cross Archie. |
| Genre | Teen |
| Characters | Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Mr. Schmidt; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper |
| Pencils | Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| First Line | Why, Archie! What are you doing, driving a delivery truck? |
| Notes | This story doesn't seem to be a new Archie story, but rather a redrawn Wilbur story. The character models and layouts do not match other Vigoda stories of the time period, and Vigoda's signature (which also does not match his usual signature) appears to the left of an empty signature box. |
| Activity | Story Quiz |
| First Line | Color me!! |
| Notes | A maze, color the pirate and unscramble the letters. |
| Publisher advertisement | You Can't Beat Him For Laughs! / Archie |
| Characters | Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Miss Grundy |
| Pencils | Bill Vigoda |
| Inks | Bill Vigoda |
| First Line | He's Archie...America's typical teen-ager! |
| Notes | Hyping Archie's appearing in Laugh Comics and Archie Comics. |
| Comic Story | Katy Keene The Pin-Up Queen / Katy Keene (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Katy has won a date with "The Cinderella Man", which doesn't go down well with her various boy friends. |
| Genre | Teen |
| Characters | Katy Keene; Sis; K.O. Kelly; Randy Van Ronson; Eddie McCracken; Doctor Kildear |
| Script | Bill Woggon (signed) |
| Pencils | Bill Woggon (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Woggon (signed) |
| Letters | Bill Woggon (signed) |
| First Line | Yes! This is Katy Keene --- and you say I've been picked by station W-O-G as the lucky girl to go on a date with "The Cinderella Man"? |
| Notes | Station W-O-G is a reference to creator Bill Woggon. Fashions designed by June Logan, Barbara Yoerger, Jean Aronson, Elda Bernardi, Lucille DiMartino, Ardeth Jenkins, Joan DuGay, Dolores Rice, Gay Skagg, Dorothy Jean Ballard, Josephine Haywood, Lila Hoff, Barbara King |
| Story | Li'l Jinx (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Li'l Jinx wants to get mail, so she answers advertisements to get something back. |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Characters | Li'l Jinx; Mr. Krakback; Bill Bubblegum |
| Script | Joe Edwards |
| Pencils | Joe Edwards |
| Inks | Joe Edwards |
| Letters | Joe Edwards |
| First Line | Is there any mail for me? |
| Notes | The final panel is a promo for the Li'l Jinx Pen Pal Club. |
| Activity | Pep Quiz (1 page) |
| Characters | Archie Andrews; The Shield (Joe Higgins); Fred Andrews; Li'l Jinx |
| Pencils | Joe Edwards |
| Notes | A maze, identify the first word in each question and use the first letter as the start of the second answer, and an optical illusion. |
| Story | The Shield (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Scott has invented a serum that can bring people back from the dead. In order to find out if it works he kills a man but is caught by the police before he can administer the serum. Tried and convicted of murder, he's sentenced to the electric chair. He convinces his assistant Dr. Green to dig up his corpse and inject him with the serum so he can return from the grave to enact his revenge. Professor Scott electrocutes Dr. Ray for turning him in to the police. While trying to kill the district attorney he's stopped by Dusty and kills himself with a lethal injection. Never to return. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Joe Higgins [The Shield]; Dusty; Dr. Ray; Professor Jonathan Scott; Dr. Green; the District Attorney |
| Pencils | Irv Novick |
| Inks | Irv Novick |
| First Line | The state contends that Jonathan Scott murdered a man while experimenting with an elixir to revive the dead. |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Swift's Premium Franks |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Characters | Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge |
| Pencils | Bill Vigoda |
| Inks | Bill Vigoda |
| First Line | Hot ziggidy dog! We're coming in on the frank beam |
| Notes | Advertisement for the Archie radio show and their sponsors, Swift & Company. |
| Story | Willy the Wise-Guy (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Willy disobeys a bunch of signs and then gets angry when others disobey a sign. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Willy |
| Pencils | Red Holmdale (signed) |
| Inks | Red Holmdale (signed) |
| First Line | Hey! Whatsamatter with you lunkheads - can't you read signs? |
| Text Article | Star Dirt (2 pages) |
| Colors | ? (page color) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | What actors are doing and what films are in production. |
| Text Article | Pep Contest Page (1 page) |
| Colors | ? (page color, text color) |
| Notes | Contest for a year's subscription to Pep Comics. |
| Story | Gloomy Gus (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gus and Gabby inhabit the bodies of two dead policemen. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Gloomy Gus; Gabby; Junior; Jake the Lug; Casey |
| Script | Edward Kean ? |
| Pencils | Red Holmdale (signed) |
| Inks | Red Holmdale (signed) |
| First Line | I still say you don't find any respectable stiffs in a morgue! |
| Advertisement | Do You Want Spending Money? (1 page) |
| Feature | Craft Honor Sales |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Sell these beautiful patriotic and religious mottoes! |
| Advertisement | Advice to "Pep" Readers for Bad Skin / Viderm Skin Products (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Stop worrying now about pimples, blackheads and other externally caused skin troubles |
| Advertisement | Premiums Given Cash Commission / Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve (1 page) |
| Pencils | ?; ? (photo) |
| Inks | ?; ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Send name and address on coupon |
| Notes | Interior back cover. |
| How a 97-Lb. Weakling Became the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" (1 page) | |
| Pencils | ?; ? (photo) |
| Inks | ?; ? (photo) |
| Colors | ?; ? (photo) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Characters | Charles Atlas |
| First Line | Charles, you poor boy! |
| Notes | Back cover |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |

