Jughead #30, #31, #33, #38: Sassy Thrasher!

I’m taking it easy a little bit for Day 5 of 7 days of Jughead. Jughead #30, #31, #33, and #38 don’t have much (or any) skateboarding content at all beyond their covers, so they are all mashed together in one post. Although the content is a little thin, we do get to see the introduction of the character “Sassy Thrasher” who might have been based on my ideal girlfriend in the 80’s.

The story in Jughead v2 #30 I s “My Jughead, My Enemy.” There’ not really any skateboarding ‘s a skateboard on the first panel and that’s it.

HOWEVER…. Witness the amazing introductions of “Sassy Thrasher!”

She doesn’t actually skateboard in this issue, but she does in later appearances. I’m not exactly sure what is happening in this panel, the skateboard is not seen hanging on the wall so this must be an earring, although they don’t show it again so who knows.

Volume 2, #31 of Jughead from march of 1992 only has the corner box and one panel with a skateboard. Hey Sassy, what’s thrashin’? Check out Jughead’s radical hair-do on the cover. I don’t think I’ve ever seen shaved lines and a mohawk in the same haircut in real life.

Even though Volume 2, #33 has some cool robots, King Kong with the requisite biplanes, and Sassy Thrasher, sadly there is no skateboarding aside from the corner box on the cover. I’m not making up the term corner box, it’s a real thing. Despite Jughead v2 #38’s glorious cover, there’s nothing else skateboard related except for another sales club ad with a Valterra board.

To earn this Valterra deck (which one is it actually?) you only have to sell 18 items, which is quite a bit fewer than it took to earn the unnamed skateboard in Jughead #13.