#sailor?

I'm not sure exactly where the conversation took place but I remember how it went exactly. At a comic book convention, or maybe just a comic store, a number of years ago I spotted a 1980s Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica on a dealer's wall. Quite a bit surprised to see it there I looked at the price and had a "what the heck" moment!

It wasn't the first Cheryl Blossom and, as far as I knew, there weren't any other Archie books from the early-1980s that should have commanded anything like the price the dealer had on this issue. So, of course I had to ask.

His answer was simple, that's the issue where Archie and Veronica have sex. "What," I exclaimed, and demanded to look at the book. Flipping through it quickly I confirmed what I suspected. There wasn't any sex being had in that book. " No, no, " the dealer explained, "it's between the stories.". Sure it is, I thought as he went on to explain exactly the reasoning for this being the Archie Sex Issue and how it was going to be a worth a fortune someday.

So he explained all the clues and, dubious, I listened thinking, "yeah, and Paul is dead too." Obviously, I didn't give it much credence. Then, over the years, I heard the same story, or versions of it, from other people, most of whom were not doing a hard sell on the comic. Eventually I got a copy. No, I didn't pay a high price. I actually think I pulled it out of the 50¢ box at Comics and Collectibles in Memphis, my local comic shop.

... To get the whole theory you have to start with Cheryl Blossom's first appearance ...