[7] Both were in show business: Roberta had been a Ziegfeld girl, and Ray performed banjo on the vaudeville circuit.

She said Archie Andrews was based on Donahue's cousin, Richard Heffernan; Veronica Lodge on Agatha Popoff, the daughter of the local football team's doctor; Jughead Jones on a mischievous teen named "Skinny" Linnehan; while Miss Grundy may have been based on a high school typing and shorthand teacher named Lundstrom;[9] however, Haverhill's school librarian is also believed to be the model for Grundy.

[10] Bob Montana presented his four-boy strip to John Goldwater while working as a freelance artist at MLJ.

[11] Montana served 3½ years in WW2 and was a sergeant at war's end; during this time, he met and married Peggy Bertholet.

[7] He died at age 54 of an apparent heart attack while cross-country skiing near his New Hampshire home.