UNDERCOVER ARCHIE - The Sexy, Suggestive side of Archie Comics! (and other news and reviews!)
Ickky in Drag!
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with cover art by George Frese)
I need to get caught up with the rest of these Ginger Issues!
I think it's very under rated, the environment these artists created for the characters... simple but very effective storytelling.
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Samm Schwartz)
Reprinted in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #194 (November 2011)
This house style that Dan DeCarlo would somewhat perfect, was originally created by George Frese (here used by Samm Schwartz). It's funny but DeCarlo hasn't even come to Archie full time at this point, but I'd possibly be fooled into thinking this was HIS art....
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Samm Schwartz)
Reprinted in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #194 (November 2011)
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And here...!
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Samm Schwartz)
Reprinted in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #194 (November 2011)
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Archie Comics Ad for those Annuals...
Ginger never got one...
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Unknown)
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Here's a bonus... Harry Lucey, who's not yet a regular artist on these Archie books has a story and... what a great splash page!
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Harry Lucey)
Last Reprinted in B & V Friends Double Digest Magazine #256 (November 2017)
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We get some of his physical humor in the story as well...
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Harry Lucey)
Last Reprinted in B & V Friends Double Digest Magazine #256 (November 2017)
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But Joe Edwards, who I probably don't bring up enough, is the real star of this issue with 'Spies and Dolls'... the girls decide to go on 'strike' and they dress Ickky up as a girl to spy on them...
That's not going to end well...
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Joe Edwards)
Reprinted in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #195 (December 2011)
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Needless to say, he's not too keen on the idea at first...
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Joe Edwards)
Reprinted in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #195 (December 2011)
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The girls aren't impressed!
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Joe Edwards)
Reprinted in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #195 (December 2011)
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Good Clean Fun for the Whole Family!
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Unknown)
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Ginger Fun Page and a Pep Comics Ad
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by A.W. Nugent)
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Our Undercover Archie Moment you won't see in today's Archie Comics, courtesy of Samm Schwartz.
It was a much simpler time...
(GINGER #5 - cover-dated 1953, on newsstands December 30th, 1952, with art by Samm Schwartz)
Reprinted in Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #195 (December 2011)
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LAUGH COMICS #68
Fun AND Laughs
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with cover art unknown, but my guess is Bill Vigoda)
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In 1955, Rock n Roll hadn’t quite made it onto a list like this! The ‘NOW That’s What I Call Music’ of the early to mid-50’s!
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955)
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This has disaster written all over it…
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by George Frese)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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Wait, where WAS he going to sleep?
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by George Frese)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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A Bill Woggon ‘Fun’ Page for Katy Keene.
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by Bill Woggon)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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And an Archie Blueprint for High School of the Future!
None of these made it!
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by Samm Schwartz)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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I don’t remember ever being much interested in these ‘fun pages’, though by the
1970’s they were pretty much a thing of the past…
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by Unknown)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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And here’s our Undercover Archie ‘You Won’t See This in Today’s Archie’!
Archie CORRECTLY obeying Veronica’s ‘No Means No’ and then Veronica
protesting that he gave up too easily!
It was a different era….
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by Samm Schwartz)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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Another Undercover Archie ‘You Won’t See This in Today’s Archie’! With
Jughead taking a Cooking Class and Archie and Reggie making fun of
him. Archie even calls him a ‘Sissy’! LOL
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by Red Holmdale?)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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But actually its genius when you consider the endless stomach of Jughead,
that for some reason here ISN’T so endless…
(LAUGH COMICS #68 - cover-dated April 1955, on newsstands February 11th, 1955, with art by Red Holmdale?)
As far as I know this has never been reprinted
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