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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Archie
Title: Archie's Pals 'n' Gals
Page Count: 84
Genre: Children, Humor, Teen
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.25 USD
Cover Date: April 1961
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Country: United States
Archie gets into a familiar jam, arranging dates with Betty and Veronica for the same night. This time he has to keep running back and forth from Betty's house to Veronica's house (and vice versa) to try to keep up the charade.; Betty tricks Archie into coming with her on a picnic as a "Big Sister" with the Riverdale Boy Sprouts. When it starts to rain, Betty finds the competition indoors for Archie from the other "Big Sisters" is more than she can take.; Veronica says that the most attractive thing about Archie is that the other girls want him, too. Betty sees if she can take advantage of this situation.; Full of love for his fellow man, Archie decides he will do everything he can to help Mr. Weatherbee. The result is the usual disaster.; Archie and Jughead insult Reggie in French. Unfortunately, they are unaware that Dilton is translating it all for Reggie.; Veronica is hanging around with a new boy and Archie keeps trying to work up the courage to fight him, egged on by Jughead and Reggie.; Veronica has Archie carry her purse while she is shopping and Archie gets teased unmercifully.; On a cold day, Veronica leaves Archie standing on the corner for a long time. After Archie has left, Veronica calls from home and pretends to have arrived later. Archie rushes over to apologize.; Veronica gives a costume party where everyone is supposed to represent a holiday.; After Miss Grundy takes her class to a TV studio where they see the announcer using cue cards, Archie decides he should use cue cards for his classroom speech.; Jinx's mother has her balance a book on her head to keep her from running around the house.; Gladys' father sends Reggie a message via some toy soldiers.; Archie and Veronica are snuggling and Leroy is outside the window with a tape-recorder, looking for some blackmail material.; Knowing the school gives toys to orphanages, a company gives Mr. Weatherbee some to test, provoking a surprised reaction from Miss Grundy.; Hap thinks his wife should make two pies--one for her club and one for him.; In a fancy restaurant, Moose gives a checkroom girl a big tip when she gives him a fancy hat (that's not his.); After observing the reaction of her students, Mr. Weatherbee tells Miss Grundy she must have given them a tough test.; Shrimpy wonders which came first: night or day?; After watching a leaf fall, Shrimpy makes a philosophical comment.; Definitions of anatomy, desk, coach, and bachelor girl.; Jughead heckles a juggler.; Veronica posts a lot of hints about her birthday.; Reggie participates in a silly fraternity initiation, while making fun of the practice.; Miss Grundy asks Jughead how the Egyptians built the pyramids without modern tools.; Definitions of luxury, winter resort, bunkhouse, and vacation.; Dilton makes the football team because he's the only one who can understand the coach's plays.; Reggie likes opera on television, as long as the singer is young and shapely.; Moose tries to get a round-trip ticket at a train station, but won't tell the clerk where he wants to go.; Archie father brings him to an Indian reservation to study different cultures, but Archie and an Indian girl end up dancing to modern records instead.; Archie complains that Jughead is taking a coffee break, even though he doesn't have a job.; Archie is trying to learn how to ice-skate.; At a masquerade party, Jughead, disguised as a horse, is drinking all the punch.; Archie goes with Veronica to the Lodges' ski lodge, but quickly ends up on the couch with a cast on broken leg.