Undercover Archie

ARCHIE COMICS #48

(On Newsstands in November 1950)

The new scanner works great and it's just in time for one of the more famous Bob Montana covers. This is some pretty forward sexual innuendo between two teenagers in 1950, even for an Archie comic.

(from Archie Comics #48 - November. 1950, artwork by Bob Montana)

Mr. Andrews looks a little more nervous than he should as Betty struts around in her 'revealing' swim suit.

Adults in Archie Comics always seemed to sweat and get big eyed around sexually charged situations...

(from Archie Comics #48 - November. 1950, artwork by Samm Schwartz?)

You'd have to have been there....

(from Archie Comics #48 - November. 1950, artwork by Samm Schwartz?)

The language and phrases of the day were different in 1950...

(from Archie Comics #48 - November. 1950, artwork by Bill Vigoda)

ARCHIE's GIRLS BETTY and VERONICA #2

(On Newsstands in November1950)

This was George Frese's book and he helped give it his own 'House Style' look. I can spot his art almost as fast as anyone...

(from Betty and Veronica #2 - November. 1950, artwork by George Frese)

The books of Betty and Veronica mirrored much of what Woggon would do with his Katy Keene book, in trying to get to know them by name and make them feel a part of a special club.

(from Betty and Veronica #2 - November. 1950, artwork by George Frese)

I never get tired of these stories where Betty and Veronica try and cook, especially when Jughead acts as melodramatic as this...

(from Archie’s Girls Betty and Veronica #2 - November 1950, artwork by George Frese)

and ESPECIALLY when they include some tasty Undercover Archie moments of 1950’s cultural stereotypes!

(from Archie’s Girls Betty and Veronica #2 - November 1950, artwork by George Frese)

Georege's splash pages were always nicely laid out in a traditional Archie style, yet he had a special feel to them all his own. Such an underrated, tragically short, history as an Archie artist...

(from Betty and Veronica #2 - November. 1950, artwork by George Frese)