# Really obscure Archie comic from late 70s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186 "2013-04-20T03:35:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/1 "2013-04-20T03:35:23Z")
OK, this is obscure. As a wee lad, I read some Archie Digest comics in the late 70s. This would be 1978-1980. I think probably 1979. This was a series having to do with cute aliens or something like that. It lasted for several issues. My memory is vague, admittedly. I would be curious if someone remembered what it was. It would be a real blast from the past. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/2 "2013-04-20T04:47:50Z")
Here’s [page one](http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/archie-comics-digest) of the cover archive for Archie Digest. Sadly, the covers seldom reflect the contents, but maybe something will jog your memory? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/3 "2013-04-20T04:56:49Z")
Thanks. It’s hard to figure out what issues would have been out in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/4 "2013-04-20T05:00:55Z")
[Abercrombie and Stitch?](http://pulllist.comixology.com/previews/APR100741/3/) They date back to\* Little Archie Comics\* back in the '60s but the digests in the 70’s were mostly reprints. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/5 "2013-04-20T05:20:52Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > [Abercrombie and Stitch?](http://pulllist.comixology.com/previews/APR100741/3/) They date back to\* Little Archie Comics\* back in the '60s but the digests in the 70’s were mostly reprints. Thanks, but that wasn’t it. They were short cute things. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/6 "2013-04-20T06:06:10Z")
[Cosmo the Merry Martian?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo_the_Merry_Martian) ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/7 "2013-04-20T06:58:51Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > [Cosmo the Merry Martian?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo_the_Merry_Martian) No, that’s from the 1950s. This was 1978-1980. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/8 "2013-04-20T07:25:53Z")
I refer you back to Elmer J Fudd’s post. Archie digests in the 70s and 80s had plenty of stuff from the 50s. And the 40s. And the 30s. Sometimes with a little touch-up to remove obviously dated stuff - giving the date just gives you a ‘latest possible first appearance’. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/9 "2013-04-20T21:51:57Z")
Good info. I don’t think it was Cosmo though. It was like a whole tribe of aliens. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/10 "2013-04-21T12:06:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > [Abercrombie and Stitch?](http://pulllist.comixology.com/previews/APR100741/3/) They date back to\* Little Archie Comics\* back in the '60s but the digests in the 70’s were mostly reprints. Man–they’ve changed Abercrombie and Stich’s look. [This is what they used to look like](http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?minyr=1962&maxyr=1962&TID=192021) (keep in mind that Archie is like 5 years old here to get an idea of how short they were) ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-obscure-archie-comic-from-late-70s/656186/11 "2013-04-21T12:22:47Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I refer you back to Elmer J Fudd’s post. > > Archie digests in the 70s and 80s had plenty of stuff from the 50s. And the 40s. And the 30s. Sometimes with a little touch-up to remove obviously dated stuff - giving the date just gives you a ‘latest possible first appearance’. Sometimes they left the dated stuff in. I remember an Archie Digest in the 80’s that obviously took place during WWII, because the girls were drawing stocking seams up the back of their legs with eyebrow pencil! That story was older than my mom.