# Archie Comics Universe...cohesive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544 "2004-12-07T14:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544/21 "2004-12-08T15:42:18Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > PS–the “Every sentence ends with an exclaimation mark!” thing was standard operating proceedure through the early '70s at least in ALL comics! The reason was that the printing process was so crude that there was a fear tjat a period wouldn’t get printed properly! For that reason, ISTR that comic companies wouldn’t let (or frowned upon) their writers using words like FLICK for fear that the L & I would merge and look like a “U”. (There were other no-no words, but I can’t remember them). I heard that the name “Clint” was supposed to be a no-no fro the same reason; Peter David once wrote a column mentioning that “Clint Flicker” would be the absolute worst possible name for a comic character. Of course, this raises the question of how Marvel let its writers give one of their major characters, Hawkeye, the first name Clint. I remember one issue of “Thunderbolts” where exactly the priniting error you describe took place (at least in my copy), so that Hawkeye told someone that his first name was an obscenity. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544/22 "2004-12-08T15:43:29Z")
But what about **Li’l Jinx**? (Won’t _anybody_ think of _Li’l Jinx_??) She also inhabits the Archie universe, as I recall at least one cameo by her in an Archie story. My memory is vague. I believe in the cameo, she was just a kid who had dropped her ice cream cone, or something like that. At least that’s the way I remember it fom reading my _sister’s_ Archie comics. (Ahem.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544/23 "2023-11-26T22:22:49Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > Has Archie Comics ever done an imprint-wide crossover event _a la_ Marvel’s _Secret Wars_ or DC’s _Crisis On Infinite Earths?_ > > And has Archie ever done a crossover event with another publisher, other than the _Archie Meets Punisher_ comic book from a few years ago? Kinda-sorta. There was a recent Archie story that told of multiple Archies from different continuities meeting. And, there has been a Batman/Archie crossover. (Can’t recall if they did that, or cancelled it.) And a Archie/Predator crossover. And a Betty & Veronica/Red Sonja & Vamperella cross-over, too. All available in GN versions. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544/24 "2023-11-26T22:38:44Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > (There were other no-no words, but I can’t remember them). ‘MOTHERFLICKER’? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544/25 "2023-11-26T23:00:35Z")
Hey. Rut roh. The Archie gang was on Scooby Doo. I’m sure. If they weren’t, they should of been. More meddlin’ kids. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544/26 "2023-11-27T18:33:39Z")
There was a crossover between Josie and the Pussycats and Scooby Doo. There was a cute joke that Shaggy and Sebastian looked identical except for the glasses and the hairstyle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archie-comics-universe-cohesive/278544.md?page=1)