Archie Comics (MLJ) · Wilbur Comics #44 · August 1952 · 10¢ · 36 pages
Grade: VG 4.0
Cover and interior credits for this issue are unconfirmed.
Wilbur Wilkin — MLJ's answer to Archie, the blond, girl-crazy, perpetually scheming teen from Riverdale-adjacent small-town America — anchors this mid-run issue. The Wilbur titles ran on the same comedic engine as the Archie books: romantic triangles, parental exasperation, schemes that unravel on the last page. Specific story titles and plot details for this issue are not confirmed in available records and are not reconstructed here.
Creator credits for individual stories in this issue — writers, pencilers, inkers — are not documented in currently accessible indices. What's here is the book itself, graded and honest.
Wilbur Comics launched in 1944 and ran to #90 in 1965, making it one of MLJ/Archie's longer-lived teen titles. Issue #44 lands squarely in the early-50s stretch when the Archie stable was at its Golden Age peak output. Mid-run issues like this one survive in far fewer numbers than early issues — they were read hard and discarded freely.
Condition VG 4.0 — .
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Archie Comics (MLJ) · Wilbur Comics #44 · August 1952 · 10¢ · 36 pages
Grade: VG 4.0
Cover and interior credits for this issue are unconfirmed.
Wilbur Wilkin — MLJ's answer to Archie, the blond, girl-crazy, perpetually scheming teen from Riverdale-adjacent small-town America — anchors this mid-run issue. The Wilbur titles ran on the same comedic engine as the Archie books: romantic triangles, parental exasperation, schemes that unravel on the last page. Specific story titles and plot details for this issue are not confirmed in available records and are not reconstructed here.
Creator credits for individual stories in this issue — writers, pencilers, inkers — are not documented in currently accessible indices. What's here is the book itself, graded and honest.
Wilbur Comics launched in 1944 and ran to #90 in 1965, making it one of MLJ/Archie's longer-lived teen titles. Issue #44 lands squarely in the early-50s stretch when the Archie stable was at its Golden Age peak output. Mid-run issues like this one survive in far fewer numbers than early issues — they were read hard and discarded freely.
Condition VG 4.0 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
