Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine#79
Cover: Stan Goldberg & Bob Smith
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine #79
“Backpack Knack”
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Cast · 1 character
Full credits
writer Frank Doyle
artist, inker, letterer Harry Lucey
cover pencils Stan Goldberg
cover inks Bob Smith
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Meet Cricket O'Dell, a girl who is obsessed with money. She not only loves money, she can literally smell it. And she'll follow any man who has money. When she shows signs of being attracted to Archie because of his connection to the "gorgeously rich" Lodges, Archie passes her off to a man with more money, Reggie Mantle. After a night of doing the things that Cricket considers fun (like listening to a record of slot machines in Las Vegas), Reggie has to find a way to get rid of her, so he gives some money to Jughead, causing Cricket to follow him instead.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).