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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Archie
Title: Archie's Pal Jughead
Page Count: 36
Genre: Humor, Teen
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1954
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Country: United States
Reggie and Archie decide to have a duel over who gets to take Veronica to the dance. Archie chooses a custard pie duel in their evening clothes. Veronica only hears "duel" and rushes a doctor to the site. She arrives in time to get hit by a errant pie.; Jughead gets in trouble with Miss Grundy by completing a "connect-the-dots" drawing of her on the blackboard. Reggie set Jughead up, so turnabout is fair play when Jughead sets up a "connect-the-dots" drawing for Reggie to complete.; Reggie makes fun of Jughead's painting. When Mr. Weatherbee is going to have a door added to his office, Jughead paints a realistic door and Reggie bangs into the wall. The next day, after the door has been installed, Reggie still thinks it's a painting and gets in trouble with Mr. Weatherbee.; When Dilbert only gets a 99 on a test instead of 100, he is depressed and goes to the chemistry lab. Reggie tells Archie and Jughead that Dilly drank some monacetic-acidester of salicylic acid. Finding Dilly lying down in the locker room, Archie and Jughead both assume the worst and call a doctor and Mr. Weatherbee, not realizing that Dilly had just taken some aspirin for a headache.; Jughead thinks Reggie has drunk a glass of turpentine, thinking it was soda pop, and rushes him to the school dispensary. After treatments to clear Reggie's stomach, including use of a stomach pump; Jughead returns to tell Reggie it was all a mistake and the liquid was soda after all.; Jughead helps Archie overhaul his car. However, when Archie takes it out for a drive, the steering doesn't work and he ends up driving through the Justice of the Peace's yard and flowers.; Betty is jealous because Archie gave Veronica one of his class pins. Jughead claims he can get Betty another of Archie's class pins, but when he does, it wasn't what Betty was expecting.; A tour guide in a museum gets tired of Jughhead's wisecracks, and maneuvers Jughead into backing into a sabre-tooth tiger skeleton.; Jughead goes to the dentist and is in a hurry to have a tooth pulled.; Ferdie's stomach is upset because his mother's been away for two week and restaurant food isn't agreeing with him.; Ginger has a crush on movie star Boone La Goon and talks Ickky into taking her to see his latest picture.; Sis tries to help Katy by putting away the dishes, but falls and knocks over the cookie jar, causing Katy to think she was taking cookies.; Jughead asks to borrow his father's electric razor.