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Jasmine Aguilera

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
94 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Betty & Veronica

And suddenly they became really boy crazy.

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Betty & Veronica

And then suddenly they stopped playing sports or being interested in running for class president.

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Betty & Veronica

All during this era of this moral panic around comics could have quit.

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Betty & Veronica

And he's interesting because Dan DiCarlo, before he came to Archie Comics, drew a lot of pinups, especially during the World War II, he would draw pinups for soldiers and obviously they want to see some skin.

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Betty & Veronica

So he would draw these very seductive pinups.

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Betty & Veronica

I'm not going to deny it either.

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Betty & Veronica

Maybe it had an influence on me.

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Betty & Veronica

And at a certain point, he had to tone down a little bit because of the Comics Code Authority.

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Betty & Veronica

So this, again, this new market of teenage girls were looking at these pinups.

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Betty & Veronica

They appealed both to men and women.

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Betty & Veronica

Women loved to read it because they would look at it for fashion advice.

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Betty & Veronica

They decided to do these fashion pages.

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Betty & Veronica

I think it started in 1947.

Articles of Interest
Betty & Veronica

Pages of one outfit, just full pinup pages.

Articles of Interest
Betty & Veronica

There are no storylines.

Articles of Interest
Betty & Veronica

It's just, here's how they look.

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Betty & Veronica

And they were wildly popular.