I’ve been an Archie Comics fan since Mom used them to teach me to read.
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They will send you Archie promotional emails, but…eh. So what.
What an industry Archie is! I wonder how many titles have been published, and how many individual Archie stories there are. I was never really an Archie fan growing up, but there were always a few Archies around. The Archie universe of the 50s and 60s is a pretty stress-free place.
Archie first appeared as a character in 1941.
Just a few years later, all the major characters had their own titles (even Reggie), Betty & Veronica also shared a title, and there were zillions of knock-off comics , both from other firms, and even Archie creating Archie knock-offs. Yikes.
Thre were Annuals, Double-sized comics, and the ever-popular Digests.
And almost everything has aged pretty well.
Along with their TV show the Archies were a pop music sensation in the 60’s with the songs Sugar, Sugar and Bang-Shang-A-Lang. Now everythings Archie!
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced that they intend to have three more children. They already have Archie and Lilibet (who they call Lizzie or Bessy or Betty sometimes), they will have a daughter who they will name Veronica. Then they will have a son named Reginald. After the last of the children is born, there will be a crowd waiting outside Buckingham Palace to hear the news about this child. They will be singing, “Archie’s here, Betty’s here. Veronica too. Reggie’s here. But, hey, Jughead, where are you?”.
I grew up reading Archie comics in the 80s and early 90s. I just recently borrowed an ebook copy of the Jughead Time Police series from the library. I had started reading it in middle school but never finished. Unfortunately, like going back and watching MacGyver and the A-Team, the stories have really not aged well. It was funny seeing that someone had changed all of the references to the present day 20th century to the 21th century (yes with that typo) in the newer print of the anthology.
I only read good Christian Archie comics, none of that heathen stuff.
(We had one of those when I was a kid.)
It was apparently popular (or nostalgic) enough in the minds of nascent early ‘Nineties web hackers to inspire them to name a series of search engines/TUIs for the Gopher internet protocol that predated the World Wide Web and the HTML-defined graphical interfaces and crawlable URLs, and was definitely a step up from dialup BBS or (if you were lucky enough to be affiliated with a university) BITNET and emailing commands to LISTSERVs to manually get files or addresses for FTP sites.
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