# Archie Comics to Kill Off Archie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749 "2014-04-09T19:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/21 "2014-04-10T07:48:55Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > You might be amused by [this 2012 blog post](http://kupps.malibulist.com/2012/06/09/i-am-not-amused/) by _Life With Archie_ writer Paul Kupperberg. I was. That Miss-Grundy-killing bastard. Good thing the B&N young lady didn’t have a Misery-type obsession with Miss Grundy. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/22 "2014-04-10T07:51:10Z")
But does anyone care about an Al Hartley Christian Archie collection? Noooooo. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/23 "2014-04-10T08:41:36Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > So I click on the thread and think “Oh, they’re ending the strip”. > > Then I click on the link and think “…” > > I… > > …Dafuq happened? I mean, I haven’t read Archie much since I was like 10, but still… Point stands. Dafuq happened? Near as I can make out, Tom Batiuk was named chief story editor, and things just kinda snowballed from there… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/24 "2014-04-10T09:00:39Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > But does anyone care about an Al Hartley Christian Archie collection? Noooooo. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/25 "2014-04-10T14:30:01Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > But does anyone care about an Al Hartley Christian Archie collection? Noooooo. What, [this stuff](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics141.html)? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/26 "2014-04-10T14:43:25Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > While Porgie Tirebiter hasn’t had any new material written for him in decades. Where’s the justice? Stop singing and finish your homework. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/27 "2014-04-10T14:46:10Z")
Until further notice, I’m treating this as an April Fools’ joke. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/28 "2014-04-10T14:49:35Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What, [this stuff](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics141.html)? That was part of it. There also was a really good blog entry which was marred by the writer seeing some sort of conspiracy in Al Hartley’s dad being the Hartley of Taft-Hartley and a now-deleted comparison of the author’s childhood discovery of “Christian Archies” to the feeling of being molested. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/29 "2014-04-10T16:38:34Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What, [this stuff](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics141.html)? Great link, thanks. My fundie Mom got that stuff for my sister and me occasionally back in the 70s. I love that the trading post has a sign offering “filthy books”. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/30 "2014-04-10T16:45:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What, [this stuff](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics141.html)? When did Lady Liberty get an ear tunnel for tiny airliners? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/31 "2014-04-10T17:34:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Can it be a really, really painful, disgusting, and humiliating death? > > Please? Jughead sells him some black tar heroin, and he chokes on his own vomit under the bleachers at Riverdale High. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/32 "2014-04-10T17:51:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Jughead sells him some black tar heroin, and he chokes on his own vomit under the bleachers at Riverdale High. Naw, I’m going with autoerotic asphyxiation. In one storyline, he’s found hanging in Veronica’s closet; in the other, in Betty’s. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/33 "2014-04-10T17:52:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > near as i can make out, tom batiuk was named chief story editor, and things just kinda snowballed from there… gmta! :d ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/34 "2014-04-10T18:00:20Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > But does anyone care about an Al Hartley Christian Archie collection? Noooooo. There was a good article about that in _[Hogan’s Alley #16](http://cartoonician.com/purchase-hogans-alley/)_ ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/35 "2014-04-10T20:16:41Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What, [this stuff](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics141.html)? Wow, that was like a color Chick tract. HAW HAW HAW! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/36 "2014-04-10T20:52:33Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Wow, that was like a color Chick tract. HAW HAW HAW! :smack: See also [Spire Christian Comics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_Christian_Comics). ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/37 "2014-04-10T21:07:53Z")
Oh, god, the Christian Archie. I believe they were written/produced by the same guy who wrote this one mainstream Archie story I always remember, going on and on about how life was better and people “purer” in the early 1900’s, when “women were treated as more than equals” just because men took off their hats for them. It was Christian too, in the end, but so subtle I actually missed it until thinking about it relatively recently. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/38 "2014-04-11T00:05:05Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Oh, god, the Christian Archie. I believe they were written/produced by the same guy who wrote this one mainstream Archie story I always remember, going on and on about how life was better and people “purer” in the early 1900’s, when “women were treated as more than equals” just because men took off their hats for them. It was Christian too, in the end, but so subtle I actually missed it until thinking about it relatively recently. You mean [this one](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics210.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/39 "2014-04-11T00:57:54Z")
That be it. Only I saw it in a digest rather than as a standalone comic. And as I said, it was only in the last few years or so that I realized what that last panel was saying. Surprisingly subtle. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749/40 "2014-04-11T01:49:38Z")
Here I was thinking that the Pep comic was what really killed Archie. Frankly, they should go for a love triangle between Archie,Moose and Reggie and have Reggie kill Archie because he can’t have him all to himself. Reggie always did seem to spend a little too much time being concerned about what Archie was doing. Hmm…. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-to-kill-off-archie/685749.md?page=3)