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Pep, #288

Published: April 1974

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Issue Contents:
Make Money Get Prizes
Story Notes

Ad for sales people for seed packets. Includes photos and testimonials from three kids. On back cover.

Join the Jolly Giant and Win the Prizes You Want
Story Notes

Ad for sales people for greeting cards. On inside back cover.

Karate
Story Notes

Ad for self-defense system.

Shining Example

Story Featuring Archie

Storyline

Mr. Weatherbee makes students do chores around the school instead of sitting in detention hall, and has given Archie the job of polishing doorknobs. Five unpolished doorknobs in the school drive both Mr. Weatherbee and Archie nuts.

Start Your Collection of Stars Now!
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Ad for photos of celebrities.

Storyline

Fan letters, with membership coupon for the Archie Club.

Story Notes

Letters from: Kerri Hatcher (Citrus Heights, CA), Nancy Rubin (Miami Beach, FL), Twyla Carter (Fraser Lake, British Columbia, Canada), Nanette Elman (Massapequa, NY), and Joey Brzoza (Nakina, Ontario, Canada).

I'll Put Your Daughter's Name...
Story Notes

Ad for Happy Birthday Music Box.

Here's Love Spray Perfume
Story Notes

Ad for a perfume.

Credits
Story Notes

Average number of copies printed during preceding 12 months = 427,482. Average number of copies in paid circulation during preceding 12 months = 205,802. Average number of copies by subscription during preceding 12 months = 307.

Credits
Story Notes

List of pen pals and addresses for the Li'l Jinx Pen Pals Club. Bottom includes a 1-inch ad for Archie's Restaurant of Joliet, Illinois.

Back Problems

Story Featuring Li'l Jinx

Storyline

Charley's lack of studying comes back to bite him, along with a biting comment from Li'l Jinx.

Credits
Make Excellent Extra Cash...
Story Notes

Ad for salesmen for personalized, metal social security cards.

Free! 40 Red China Stamps
Story Notes

Ad for stamps and a bonus album.

Decisions Decisions

Story Featuring Archie

Storyline

Archie goes back and forth trying to decide whether he needs to wear rain gear to school...and makes the wrong decision.

Country & Western Classics
Story Notes

Ad for tapes of country/western songs from 1958-1971. Sold as vinyl records, cassette tapes, reel-to-reel tapes, or 8-track tapes.

The Old Pro

Story Featuring Archie

Storyline

Jughead procrastinates about changing his procrastinating ways.

Story Notes

Jughead is reading a "Josie" comic.

Never Finished High School?
Story Notes

Ad for home study school.

Pin Head

Story Featuring Archie

Storyline

Archie spends too much on a piece of jewelry for Veronica and confusion follows when she tells him he shouldn't have.

Credits
Story Notes

Credits from the reprint in Jughead and Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #10.

Famous Name Prizes or Cash
Story Notes

Ad for sales people for cards. On inside front cover.

Story Featuring Archie

"Archie, are we on the scenic route?"

Storyline

The boys are snowmobiling and have different ideas of scenic.