Betty or Veronica?
An audio comic book/musical from Archie Comics on Tifton Records with book, music and lyrics by Bean Clayton and Raol Alland “Idol-ness in Riverdale” (no date on the record – early 70’s?) The Archie look that I grew up with in the sixties and seventies was the work of pin-up and glamour girl illustrator Dan DeCarlo whose previous cartoons were most seen in the “adult” men’s digests of the Forties and Fifties (with titles like “Humorama”, “Gee-whiz”, “Eyeful of Fun” and “Romp” to name a few). He toned down his sexy drawings to make the Riverdale teens suitable for young readers, but I’m sure that Betty and Veronica couldn’t help but spark many tween libidos – and Josie and the Pussycats – forget about it.
(47 votes, average: 3.30 out of 5)
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August 28th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Sorry, but there’s no way that art is by Dan DeCarlo. It looks like the hackwork of an anonymous illustrator poorly aping DeCarlo.
August 28th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
I agree! DeCarlo set the guide for illustrators to follow later on and this doesn’t look like the drawings on the 10 cent comics that I collected in the sixties. This might have been more akin to the look of the characters as seen in the TV show? Thanks for the note.
August 30th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Betty AND Veronica, please!
March 1st, 2014 at 11:44 am
This was released in 1966 by Peter Pan Records (Tifton was one of its many subsidiaries).