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Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #40 (1959) · The Collector

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Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (1950)
#40

Archie#40

Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica

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Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #40

Joyful Journey / Season's Beatings / The Warning! / Fish Fried / Tree to Get Ready / Nope! / Those Are the Breaks!

Publisher: Archie
Cover date: January 1959
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writers: Frank Doyle, Tom Moore, Joe Edwards
Pencillers: Dan DeCarlo, Tom Moore, Joe Edwards, Bill Vigoda
Inkers: Rudy Lapick, Tom Moore, Joe Edwards, Mario Acquaviva
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After hearing Mr. Weatherbee's lecture on the importance of spreading happiness, Betty decides to spread joy to everyone in her life, but her "joyful" pronouncements set off a class war between the Andrews and Lodge families.

Vincent DeCarlo, Tom Moore, Joe Edwards, Mario Acquaviva

Cover

Harry Lucey

Editor

Richard H. Goldwater

Cover letters

Harry Lucey

Characters

Archie Andrews
Betty Cooper
Chuck Thomas
Fred Andrews
Geraldine Grundy
Greg
Jughead Jones
Leroy
Li'l Jinx
Midge Klump
Mr Lodge
Mrs. Cooper
Reggie Mantle
Veronica Lodge
Waldo Weatherbee

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