legacy

That inflatable horsey sure makes the rounds. Why are these inanimate objects always eyeing the girl riding them in Decarlo illustrations?

Setting it up

We have a story where the reprint dumped a page of Betty trying to convince Archie he’s literally attracted to her using a radiation geiger. And. They remove the page where she might.

Necessitating a change in script when (spoiler) Veronica comes in wearing a watch.

I suppose it almost makes more sense for Archie to conjecture a pseudo-scientific explainer than for Betty to lay it out.

Veronica's bikini bottom briefly turns to yellow. I also note the top is visible -- barely -- in that first panel, but gets lost in the reprint.

And the printing gets smeared in two directions.

Jughead thinks like Nancy.

50¢ becomes (oddly) $5.00 (decimal required?), Fifteen dollar jeans remain fifteen dollar jeans, one dollar fee becomes five dollar fee, and this dollar is now this ten.