ARCHIE COMICS - November/December 1954
(PEP COMICS #107 cover-dated January 1955, on newsstands November 10th, 1954, with cover art unknown, but my guess is Bill Vigoda)
One of the characters that they feature in Pep is Wilbur, a book that lags behind most of the other Archie titles. Here, Writer/Artist Joe Edwards manages to get the word 'asinine' in an Archie Comic!
(PEP COMICS #107 cover-dated January 1955, on newsstands November 10th, 1954, with art by Joe Edwards)
An AD for Wilbur, disguised as a comic book story...
(PEP COMICS #107 cover-dated January 1955, on newsstands November 10th, 1954, with art by ?)
Joe Edwards would do a fair amount of Wilbur stories but... that's a George Frese cover. I'm a big fan of Freses's work, and he sure was a workhorse in his day, but... I wonder why Archie Comics never much mentions or remembers him?
Laurie looks different than Betty, but Linda sure does look like Veronica.... and this joke... WOW! How'd they get away with that???
The book is almost all one page or half page gags with a variety of artists. The one multi-page story features a scene that would be viewed as a bit Politically Incorrect in this day and age!
The first issue was a whopping 15 cents (and 52 pages), but it must've not sold as well as they hoped, because issue #2 is 36 pages and 10 cents. Didn't help apparently, as this would be the last issue of Archie's Mechanics.
(ARCHIE'S MECHANICS #2 cover-dated 1954, on newsstands December 15th, 1954, with cover art by Bill Vigoda?)
There was actually a tremendous amount of useful information in these - everything from how to make a umbrella cover from old neck ties to how faucets work - but I guess it just didn't go over. No gags or stories at all...
(ARCHIE'S MECHANICS #2 cover-dated 1954, on newsstands December 15th, 1954, with art by various)
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