Introduced in issue 82 of Betty & Veronica Digest (July, 1996) in the story Roadblock On The Information Superhighway, Sam’s a brown-haired, thin hunk. Betty met Sam through an online dating service on the Internet—they went on a romantic date; they had a dinner, then went off on a horse-drawn carriage ride. Veronica then got jealous, ran home, then plunked herself onto the computer to get herself her own online date, Derrick... only to run off to Australia before meeting him!! Derrick then went with Betty instead—Veronica mistook Derrick for Dilton because they both have the same intials!!