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Merry Christmas!

February 1980, Archie Giant Series Magazine #491 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, "Sabrina's Christmas Magic",

September 1974, Sabrina, The Teen-Age Witch #21 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/Rudy Lapick inks,

May 1978, Everything's Archie #65 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, "UFO Encounters"

Jan 1962, Archie's Pal Jughead #80 Cover, Samm Schwartz pencils/inks, classic "Martian" cover!,

This classic cover is from the late 1960 to early 1962 period where all Archie titles had Horror or Sci-Fi covers; (the Jughead covers included issues #77, 78, 80-82, 85, 86, and 88);

August 1981, Betty and Me #122 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, twice-up, "Ankle Leash"

May 1978, Sabrina #54 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, twice-up, Sabrina Bikini cover!

February 1981, Archie #301 Cover, twice-up, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, "Roller-Skating"

Sept 1979, Archie Giant Series Magazine #496 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, classic bikini cover, “Veronica, What do you Draw Best?”

On the beach, Betty sketches, Veronica lounges and the male population admires. Appearances: Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Archie Andrews, Moose Mason, Reggie Mantle, and Dilton Doiley

5 hours ago, Caltex98 said:

A Betty and Veronica story (B&V Summer Fun #527, 1983) where they speak like valley girls.  Probably considered very "with it" in the early eighties. Dan DeCarlo inked by his son, James DeCarlo.

Today a tatoo wouldn't cause these reactions...  (and Archie is hardly Erich Von Zipper material).

great and relevant story! 

6 hours ago, westform said:

Hi Nick; didn't get it from Chris. Bought it further along the food chain. And, just put it up for sale!

Dan, thank you for the heads up. I'm working of a few large deals so I'm trying to focus on that right now. I run hot and cold with Archie. I buy for a bit and then I cool off. I have 400 covers so I think im good for a while!  

1993, Veronica #29 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/Alison Flood inks

1993, Betty #9 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/Alison Flood inks

1994, Betty & Veronica Annual Digest #11 Cover, Dan Parent pencils/Henry Scarpelli inks

And here is one of my Archie grails - December 1972, Archie #223 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/Rudy Lapick inks,

A classic, twice-up, Archie cover featuring the whole cast! “Oh, Archie! You Shouldn’t Have!”

This is the cover to the 2nd Archie comic I ever read off the newsstand!; I am very happy to be the proud custodian of this great Dan DeCarlo cover;  It was also published as the cover to The Best of Dan DeCarlo Hardcover Volume 1"

It features all the main characters: Archie (Andrews), Betty (Cooper), Veronica (Lodge), Jughead (Jones), Reggie (Mantle), Moose (Mason), and Dilton (Doily); The whole gang is wishing Betty a Happy Birthday!

On 11/6/2017 at 6:43 PM, westform said:

Dan hi, just saw this. So you grabbed this one from Chris. wow. I love this one!

May 1979, Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #281 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, twice-up

5 hours ago, glenbru said:

Speaking of allowance covers, here's mine by Harry Lucey from 1962...

Glen, a great cover, congrats! As i was a Math guy in school, i noticed the pie chart should have had the 2% on the left side, top quadrant, not on the right.  They must have realized the four quadrants did not add up to 100% and added the 2% after, but it was added to the wrong side. 

August 1971, Josie And The Pussycats #56 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, "Health Nuts", twice-up

March 1974, Archie #233 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, "Iceboats", twice-up

July 1983, Betty and Me #134 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, twice-up

April 1975, Everything's Archie #39 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, "Don't Damage The Skis", twice-up

September 1978, Everything's Archie #69 Cover, Dan DeCarlo pencils/inks, "Beach" cover, twice-up

On 11/18/2017 at 2:21 PM, Caltex98 said:

That's great. It is a book which definitely deserves to be more well known. One good thing about it is that craig yoe and Victor Gorelick actually reached out to the Archie fans through Archie Comics Fan Forum and asked for suggestions of covers to be printed in the book. About 20 pages of OA is reproduced and a lot of it comes from Nick Katradis collection (not surprising at all).

Back cover by Fernando Ruiz.

The size compared to the actual OA (very good reproduction, but I scanned it myself in 400 dpi which was the resolution craig asked for):

Awesome cover Karl!

Oct 1996, Betty And Veronica #104, Pages #1-5, (complete story), Dan DeCarlo pencils/Alison Flood inks, "The Hit Man", a complete all-beach B & V story.

Betty and Veronica turn Archie the nerd into a guy that hits on every girl he sees on the beach!,