Pep, #394 Canadian

Published: May 1984

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1.000 pages humor; teen

"Tomorrow there's a ninety-eight percent chance of rain!"

Vidiocy
Story 1 6.000 pages humor; teen
Storyline

The Archies try to make a music video for NTV.

Rain Refrain
Story 2 1.000 pages humor; teen
Storyline

Jughead makes good on a promise from Archie.

Credits
Great Literature Match-Up!
Story 3 0.600 pages non-fiction
Storyline

A puzzle involving literary characters and authors.

Story 4 0.400 pages
Episode 16: Wards a Whammy, or "When Diplomacy Fails, Fire Works"
Story 5 6.000 pages adventure; humor; science fiction
Storyline

The inept space witch Cecily threatens to put a curse on Maureen.

Credits
Lover's Lament
Story 6 5.000 pages humor; teen
Storyline

Hot Dog falls in love with a cute French Poodle from a dog food commercial.

Story 7 1.000 pages non-fiction

"First prize -- Jenny Moir; Second prize -- Bess Eckstein"

The Noose Behind the Nightly News, or It Was a Real Hang Up

Featuring Wanda Wunderbuss

Story 8 5.000 pages humor
Storyline

The story of Wanda Wunderbuss, an anchorwoman for the NIT Nightly News. Secretly engaged to the handsome but dumb co-anchor, Gary Grimlove, Wanda begins to wonder why she's constantly sent out on dangerous assignments in foreign countries while Gary is given all the cushy jobs. When she's finally had enough of the unequal treatment, she hits Gary, who self-destructs: he was a robot created by NIT to be the perfect pretty, bland anchorman. Wanda takes the loss of her fiancé in stride, and threatens to reveal NIT's secret unless she is allowed to pick her own assignments and her own co-anchor.

Story Notes

This strange satirical story was a pilot for a series that never happened; the title page proclaims "introducing Wanda Wunderbuss!" but she never appeared again. At one point Wanda refers to herself as "Wunderbust." Most appearances of the name "Wunderbuss" have the last "s" looking slightly different from the other letters. It appears that "Wunderbust" was changed for being too suggestive, but one mention of the original name slipped through.