Pep Comics #62 for Sale - First Appearance of Li'l Jinx - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series)
Issue: #62
Publication date: July 1947
Key date: 1947-07-00
On-sale date: 1947-05-19
Indicia publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 52

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Li'l Jinx - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of K.O. Kelly - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Classical Music Week	cover	1	pencils: Al Fagaly; inks: Al Fagaly	Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge, Mr. Weatherbee
1	Bulletin No. 40 - Shield G-Man Club	text article	1	letters: typeset
2	Puppy Love	comic story	11	pencils: Bill Vigoda; inks: Bill Vigoda	Archie Andrews, Fred Andrews, Mary Andrews, Jughead Jones
3	Pep Contest Page	text article	1	colors: ? (page color); letters: typeset
4	Katy Keene The Pin-Up Queen	comic story	6	script: Bill Woggon; pencils: Bill Woggon; inks: Bill Woggon; letters: Bill Woggon	Katy Keene, Sis, K.O. Kelly First
5	Pep Puzzle Page	activity	0.5	pencils: Al McLean; inks: Al McLean
6	Over one million copies sold per issue of Archie Comics!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Bill Vigoda; inks: Bill Vigoda	Archie Andrews, Fred Andrews, Betty Cooper, Gabby, Jughead Jones, Veronica Lodge
7	Death Strikes the Hour	comic story	10	pencils: Irv Novick; inks: Irv Novick	The Broken Shield, Dusty, Joe Higgins, Dustin Simmons
8	-	comic story	3	pencils: Red Holmdale; inks: Red Holmdale	Willy the Wise Guy
9	Star Dirt	text article	2	colors: ? (page color); letters: typeset
10	-	comic story	6	script: Edward Kean; pencils: Red Holmdale; inks: Red Holmdale	Gabby, Gloomy Gus
11	Pep Comics Puzzle Page	activity	1		Archie Andrews, Joe Higgins, Jughead Jones, The Shield
12	-	comic story	6	script: Joe Edwards; pencils: Joe Edwards; inks: Joe Edwards; letters: Joe Edwards	Li'l Jinx First

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Best of the Forties ISBN 1-879794-00-4	1991	On eBay ›
Archie Archives #8 ISBN 978-1-59582-995-5	2013	On eBay ›
The Best of Archie Comics #4 ISBN 978-1-61988-942-2	2014	On eBay ›
Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest #2	2016	On eBay ›
Archie Spotlight Digest: Archie 75th Anniversary Digest #3	2016	On eBay ›
Golden Age 1940s-1950s ISBN 978-1-68255-932-1	2017	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
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Series context

‹ #6162 of 136#63 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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