I'm more of an /a/non but I fucking love ArchieLet me peek into what the west was like before I got to experience it.
hey sugar sugar
American Ecchi slice of life broIts really great, look up Dan DeCarlo and Bob Montana they had the best art.Its not deep but its not supposed to be, its just campy fun stuff
a lot of the atmosphere is really dated but I find that charming and retrothe main themes never change, and that makes it timeless
the girls are def the best part (betty best girl btw) but the boys have their own appeal.the concept of reverie is big, but it will often take a back seat if the opposite sex isn't in the picture.betty and veronica are friends, until archie is in the picture, then they're "frenemies" and i think the same could be said for the boys too.
>>143277039He is literally me
>>143277039based
>>143277056kek.I like Archie
jughead is the crowd favorite because the opposite sex doesn't interest him. this means he gets to deliver a lot of the jokes, usually at the ugly girl, ethel (they made her less ugly later, which is funny in its own way)
jughead is the original sigma male
>>143277057So true
Where do I get started with Sabrina?
>>143277057>>143277064Like I said, the themes are timeless
>>143277111I straight up do not know. I like Archie, never got into Sabrina or Josie and The PussycatsI liked the animated show for Sabrina, but that's about it (her boyfriend stored dirt in his cargo pants pockets and kept worms in the dirt and thats all I remember from the animated show lol)
>>143276727another thing archie doesn't get credit for aside from having most of the comic revolve around getting bitches is the natural integration of black characters (lmao)
To make a long story short, it had a great run as a children's comic - with literal pin-ups in it - drawn by guys who drew for playboy etc and that's rad to me
I'll post some more of the full page art and leave the thread up, I love seeing the old stuff, and there's so much of it. I recommend ordering something like "The Best of Archie Comics" (I think its free on kindle) or "Archie's Favorite Comics from the Vault" they're really cheap and they've got a lot of fun little stories. I collect the floppies from the 60's-70's when I find them in antique stores or comic shops (why do comic shop staff laugh at me when I say I like the vintage archie comics?)
betty is so smart and thriftyshe really is best girl
a comic suitable for children btw
here's one for OP
girls amirite??
>>143277240...Betty...I'm worried about you.
>>143277257
>>143277285Betty's kinda crazy, I love that about her
>>143277257I really liked this one.
>>143277299i can't believe people like veronica over betty desu who wouldn't want a girl like this?
>>143277308of course, crazy girl's do have their faults especially if they get it in their head that you're a problem
>>143277314especially if she means it and is capable to act on it
>>143277301especially clever for a comic that is very grounded
Veronica best girl
>>143276727mark waid run was good.
>>143277344WRONG but keep her more betty for me
Predator best girlPunisher best boy
>>143277406I'm glad they had fun with Archie I never bothered to watch riverdale tho
>>143276727nothing is stopping modern Archie from doing this
>>143277000>EcchiJust because it has swimsuits it isn't ecchi.>>143276727It can be really hilarious at times but I never liked the "house" style that made most of the characters suffer from same face syndrome.
Post the beach one, you know the one i'm talking about.
>>143276727Is there a good prestige/omnibus edition of the prime Archie stuff?
>dies so as to keep the oldest ship war in history aliveAlso was this the last time a comic character’s death made front page news?
Is this the closest there's been to an Archie style full on sex comedy?>gets ruined by every character being some degree of gay by the end>doesn't deliver on the title..
>>143278105What a pair of tossers
>>143276998Doo doo doo doo doo doo
>>143278109Wish the artist did more work at Archie.
>>143278349
>>143276727
Archie is so facinating, for most of its life it was just a goofy SoL romance comic And now the company actively hates itself and its own bread and butter, in a fight for it to stay relevant with "relatable" mini comics, and clickbait horror books
>>143278850>And now the company actively hates itself and its own bread and butterJust like certain other comic companies
>>143278850>And now the company actively hates itself and its own bread and butterWhat do you mean? They still release SoL romance stuff consistently.
>>143278974It's mostly reprints now, and anything else is out of obligation for its own history.The books they advertise now are the "whoa, what if Archie was fought demons?" "What if Sabrina was satanic?" "What if Josie in the Pussycats got fucked up by aliens?" "What if Archie met (insert ill fitting crossover here)The fact they ended Life with Archie with him being shot dead, should tell you everything about how they feel about the IP. >>143278937Yeah, sadly this is just how western companies are now
>>143276727All the Archie girls have very cute feet
>we'll never get a modern animated remake of Archie's weird mysteries aimed at an older audience.feels bad man.
>>143278850I still find it weird the original run ended at #666
>>143278109Cherry Poptart?
>>143279848That's how you know the Archie series is cursed for all time. Whether it be though sheer chance or that it was a purposeful sacrificial offering.
What are the best issues?
>>143279864Was a parody more than anything.
>>143277191Proof positive that the tobacco companies were trying to get children to smoke cigarettes.
>>143277380Betty's such a dumb blonde, she can't even spell FETISH correctly!
>>143280798Not really.It was, however everything we wanted in an Archie comic, but never got.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX28cgKHHyc
>>143279041>"What if Josie in the Pussycats got fucked up by aliens?"I don't recall this one.
>>143282003They basically did Josie in Space, but with the the Thing. It's exactly what it sounds like
>>143281913Blew my mind when I first found out that this was literally from the Archie comic/cartoon characters rather than a band that had the same name.Is this the most iconic insert song in history?
>>143277221any new Jughead and Betty?
>>143283362And this isn't the only one.
I'm still furious that Afterlife With Archie never got a second TPB release. I didn't care for the other horror imprint stuff but Afterlife was pretty great.
>>143278150When does the tickling begin?
>>143277412From what I've heard Riverdale seems like a bit of a disappointment. There's a lot of potential in the Archie setting. There's a lot of ways to go with it, one could turn it into a serious romance plot, continue the rom com, do something weird and dumb.I hear the Riverdale show turned into some kind of Supernatural pastiche.Now, something odd like that sounds fun, but it's also like serious in tone. Which is just kinda dumb.If the show is to be silly, go silly, if it's serious it should be fully serious.
>>143279848Archie is the world's only fictional character to have been sacrificed to satan
>>143279041Those reprints (at least the double digests, which counting them as one thing are weekly) always include at least one original story. It's certainly not like their old output, but it's not like they abandoned the old line altogether.The real problem is Dan Parent is a terrible artist, or at least he's bad at conforming to the house style, I've never seen his non-archie work.
>>143284390>The real problem is Dan Parent is a terrible artist, or at least he's bad at conforming to the house style, I've never seen his non-archie work.Really? I've always thought Dan was fine
>>143277075>Confederate army hatWhat did Jughead mean by this?>>143277111There's no overarching plot so whenever is fine
>>143277056Strange way of spelling Cherry
consider midges tight young ass.
>>143280802>companies advertise their productsAHHHHHHH!!!!!
>>143277075Kek. Juggie cooked her with that one
>>143277308>veronica>bettyThe superior choice is Sabrina
Does anyone know if modern Archie digests reprint anything like what’s in this thread or are there vast swaths of the Archie canon that are off limits now?
Archie used to be pretty evergreen.
>>143277226And a SLUT!(Although they couldn't call her that back in the day, so they substituted SLOB instead!)
OP here, hory shiet I didn't expect 100+ posts. gonna enjoy reading through all of them.
Whats your favorite? For me it's this Betty
>>143291515>>143285570Midge is indeed better than Veronica
>>143293215Come on, give me a good one.
>>143286840From what I remember when I've browsed through recent digests, most of this stuff (like the girls in swimsuits) would be okay. Some of the more morbid bits like >>143277299 and >>143277308 probably wouldn't be acceptable. Same with stuff like Adolf Jones here. >>143277322
>>143277308Character assassination.
>>143277028So smug
Reminder Veronica was the actual girlfriend and Betty is the homewrecker
>>143282267Please tell me it ends with the Thing essentially winning or at least surviving.
>>143294704No
>>143293215For me it's 11
>>143277000>American Ecchi slice of life broecchi part aside (as that other anon mentioned) i guess, wow that is a really good way to sum it up. mind blown. kind of like one of rumiko's works huh?
>>143277056based bettychadthat's a wholesome pic.>>143277113kek>>143277087based
>>143277162Thank you anon. Betty's tummy line is hot.I'll check out these that I found online from your recommendations!https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Best-of-Archie-Comicshttps://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Archie-s-Favorite-Comics-From-the-Vault>I collect the floppies from the 60's-70's when I find them in antique stores or comic shops (why do comic shop staff laugh at me when I say I like the vintage archie comics?)You are too based for them.
>>143277221why would girls want to turn jughead horny?is this like the reversed gender degeneration tag?
>>143277247kek thanks
>>143277658
>>143279188proof?
>>143297999You want proof?>>143293165>>143285663>>143277948>>143277658>>143277226>>143277200>>143277000I'm sure I could find more if I were to look/ I wouldn't be shocked if some autist compiled all the feet from the comics somewhere, I've seen plenty of similar things for other stuff
>>143298153this one is the best imo >>143277658
>>143298167That or >>143277200 is my favorite in the thread
I just read Archie (2015) Issues 1 and 2 and uhhh...... I didn't really like it. Don't want to start drama so I want go too into detail but yeah I think I'm gonna go back to reading the old ones.>>143298192based taste
>>143286840I pick up a Betty & Veronica digest now and then and they are still at least 50% Dan DeCarlo who drew most of the stuff in this thread. Archie Comics knows where the good shit is
>>143297870He presents a challenge. All he does is neg them. The girls' pride won't let them accept that
>>143297090Hmph. Cowards.
>>143299490Whoever had the idea to redesign Sabrina's aunts as MILFs instead of two old-school witch hags should have become the president of the company
>>143299550Pretty sure it was whoever pitched the live-action sitcom first, and then the comics followed for synergy.
>>143276727They are comfy to read when you're taking a shit or having a bath. Growing up we had a collection of digests in the bathroom, I took the time to build my own recently
>>143299550>>143299617I remember watching the sitcom, not because I thought it was particularly amusing, but mostly because Sabrina was cute. Then at some point Caroline Rhea walked into a scene wearing something ridiculously low cut and my world changed.
>>143298147Well, that's terrifying. Thanks, Alex.
>>143277191sluuuuut
>>143299984>Archrd and the Jug Mouser
>>143277658>almost always wearing sandals, heels, or flatsPonder the aroma
>>143300463This was such a weird period for Jughead. For some reason, in the late 80s they decided to make him actually interested in girls for some reason and even had these girlfriends like Joani Jumpp and Debbie (not to mention Ethel). I think it just lasted for a few years and while he didn't go back to the he-man woman hater of the past, he became more nonchalant towards them.
>>143301062
>>143301062Not the first time they'd tried that, among other things there was that magic hatpin nonsense, but it wasn't really well received on any of the attempts. Not sure why they kept trying to do that but, considering at least one attempt came in the '70s, there's a chance it was an attempt to head off gay jokes since that was when jokes about tomboys being lesbians and asexual men just being gay started taking off.
Based Archie thread
>>143299793I only remember a cold open where Sabrina swipes one of her aunts' sweaters but falls victim to a literal "booby trap" as her tits grow to absurd size.
>>143293215Where's Alexandra? Cheryl is fine too. That whore
>>143302958God, Midge is such a slut.
>>143303371>now kiss!
>>143277075>hip quipsbetter than the actual joke
>>143285460>Stay out of Riverdale, nigger
>>143276727Dare I?
>>143303613dare what?
>>143303618
>>143276727Check out the old stuff. The really old comics were surprisingly violent A lot of the punchlines were "and then Betty and Veronica waited outside and beat Archie to death with bats"
>>143303758
>>143277111>Where do I get started with Sabrina?Decarlos early Sabrina is a sex bomb. She has surprisingly big curves that he usually only used for his adult comicsFirst cartoon Sabrina is super cute but has some of the worst voice actors for the main gang
>>143300254Nothing wrong with wearing a costume like that
I really like the hairjob webm with the paintbrush.
>>143306104that shit is really a thing?
>>143303624>it's realwhy
>>143277000>EcchiNo.
>>143279301I like this enough to google the guy and his art is terrible except for the Archie stuff, he’s a savant
>>143301248Were they contractually obligated to make Sabrina the most attractive Archie girl every chance they got???
>>143277200Note that the pin-up idea was suggested by "Josie Dumont," aka Mrs. Dan DeCarlo.
>>143309123Solle's art is generally pretty good, what do you meanExcept the gay shit, I could do without that
>>143310491That unapologetic foot fetishest with the two seething women
>>143311500>>143310491The 60s/70s truly were a glorious time for footfags apparently, with all the hot hippie chicks running around
I grew up reading the 70s-80s comics my mom read when she was a kid, she decided to give away a lot of them to save space a few years ago, but I still have a few(plus some collection books I bought for myself). My sister did not. Note: She is a Riverdale fan. I hate her for that lol
>>143310491I love the notes in Melody’s speech bubbles, it’s one of my favorite “painting the medium” devices to suggest how she talks (a sing-song voice).
>>143311953Yeah, I noticed that in some of the other panel's I've seen too. It's a nice touch.
bump
Which Archie girl is (You)r favorite? For me it’s Sabrina, but Betty comes second as a blondechad
>>143314732Veronica. I'm not saying I would want to date her, but I always thought she had the funniest lines and enjoyed that she was so self-aware about being a rich bitch, to the point that it almost makes sense that Betty and Archie will still like her after the shit she pulls, she's just a fun person to be around.
>>143315076>literally Trump and Clinton
>>143315076
>>143309433>Go to Europe during WWII, draw pin-ups on airplanes>Meet a French model during a blind date, win her over with your cartoons, marry her>Come back to the US and make a truckload of money by drawing hot 2D women based off of your wifeWhat a chad.>>143315292There really is a Simpsons clip for everything.
>>143277000>>143277437Ofc it's ecchi, it even has all the really lame unfunny jokes
>>143309211Dan came up with her. Maybe the pussycats too, I forget. He gave her pretty big hips for a year or so there. She was pretty f'ing hot until Archie comics gave her the same body all the teen girls had
>>143311697Women give away and keep the dumbest shitLike they will give away comics, video games systems, tvs, even running cars and yet keep an entire room of cheap chinese made crafting shit
Early Sabrina then first cartoon Sabrina are the hottest. It's a shame they eventually made her have the same face as the rest of the Riverdale girls
>>143316340I really like Harry Lucey's take one Sabrina.
>>143316221Absolutely would
Black Hair.
So Archie is pretty much just fanservice harem anime but Americana style
>>143316838>No cleavage on Cheryl Blossom......
>>143315942
>>143303580saskatchewan mentioned
>>143316868A lot of it, yesThey do do other stuff but it always seems to go back to love triangle. When it first started they did a lot of other stuff and the comics were more violent like Betty would be a cook and thrown out of the kitchen by force or some other comic would end with Betty and Veronica waiting outside jughead's home with baseball bats. There were also a ton of new side comics with characters that would be dropped pretty quickly.The longest lasting would be Sabrina and her family, and josie and the pussycats who managed to stick around and are often not in Archie's harem. They also sometimes do stuff with Betty and Veronica that have nothing to do with Archie. Like one time Betty had multiple personality disorder and an uncle that was a vampire Riverdale is actually a pretty weird place and I'm really surprised hard right conspiracy theory Christian mothers have mostly ignored Archie comics because it might be the oldest US comic with witchcraft. They got upset about D&D and Harry Potter but Sabrina is right there. That horror comic even leaned into it
>>143317215Shoulders wider than the hips tooI wonder if they realize that this stuff does more damage to young women than help? This idea that they shouldn't have enough body fat for tits and hips if they want to be pretty
>>143316526Big Scott Pilgrim vibes
Where's the pages where they snuck in Nephrite and Naru from Sailor Moon?
>>143317738This confused the Hell out of me. Archie is real, but they have a comic book?
>>143318727
>>143319104There's precedent.
>>143316281I got to meet them both in 2000. Great guy.
>>143319163So that's what happened to Naru when she got written out of the anime.
>>143319174I would ask how average teens that are not famous would have their own comic in this world, but my pizza should be here any minute
Archie is the best
>>143319747holy 2012
>>143319701IIRC there was an Avengers issue that explained Patsy Walker comics exist in-universe because Patsy’s mom created a fictionalized comic based on her daughter and friends. Maybe Archie comics exist in the same way. I could see Miss Grundy creating Archie comics, or Chuck.
>>143284811Which issue is this one from?
>>143314732Alexandra or Cheryl
>>143276727>1000 page archie digest >werewolf jughead Love Archie comics but they're all over the place
>>143300171Subtle yet bold storytelling, brief glimpse into Archie's consciousness. Based thread
>>143316049Archie what the fuck are you wearing
>>143317867Archie famously licensed the IP to some Christian comic-makers in the 80s which seems to have cemented the brand as "safe" in the brains of Christian soccer moms
>>143322390That sweater makes him look like he's gonna invite Betty and Veronica back to his house for some pudding pops
what an arhie
>>143323856I'm trying so hard right now to not think Big Ethel in that get up is hot.
>>143277000Ecchi? No way.Cute girls in cute outfits flirting with a dumb as a rock main character? Sorta harem that never will end and no one falls in love with GIRL WINS XBOWL shit you fucks caw about on /a/ for the new anime season? Yes.
>>143301062Here's a good summary of that period. https://www.cbr.com/jughead-love-triangle/For me, I can get why this might not have landed too well with the viewers. You already have Archie and Reggie for romantic shenanigans. Who needs Jughead included in that?
>>143306104sauce
>>143276727Is there like one big book of essential Jughead or Betty & Veronica comics I can own? I got sick of renewing the double digest and would rather have a collection of essential stories .
>>143277000DeCarlo is definitely THE guy, and defined the artstyle forever. But for me, Harry Lucey edges him out just slightly. I find his art more dynamic, the physical comedy stuff feels more animated, and the ladies bodies, while simple still, are less simplified than DeCarlo's.
Another Lucey cover
>>143277191>posts someone's full name and address on the front pageThe fuck? Was this normal back then?
>>143328006The idea was so that other readers would be able to correspond with each other. Homemade zines were often distributed this way
>>143298400kek, makes sense.>>143299104so cute.
>>143299774Nice, that does sound comfy.
>>143277658>Deletedno...
>>143317797>>143303580Wait, why ARE there so many canadian entries?
>>143303979Damn okay ronny has cute feet here
>>143311697>She is a Riverdale fan. I hate her for that lolHahaI remember my friends in high school shitting on that show
Nobody's posted the official rule 63 issue? Shame!
>>143316838>2 girlfriendsunironically how does he do it?
>>143320432>AlexandraUnderated waifu
>>143327937Lucky also drew (I don’t know who wrote the gag) the best Beatles cover of the 1963-1965 Beatlemania era. Of course no one making these comics and stories had any idea why kids liked this music but this seems pretty good natured and funny about the generation gap.
>>143329027> LuckyLucey, I mean.>>143328993The only continuity-fixing story I dream of writing is one that explains Alexandra randomly having or not having magic powers and why both she and Alex seem to forget about them on a regular basis.(I remember as a kid this issue taught me that the cover is often better drawn than the story inside.)
>>143329210Archie comics play pretty loose with lore. Betty also has a vampire uncle and no one has heard from him in ages. It's far more episodic than they want to admit and there probably never was a Riverdale Bible. And if there was, it would be pretty high level
>>143329027The band looks like chuds
>>143328985Girl jughesd is best girl. Chill and loves to eat. Her and little moose.
>>143329245Oh for sure, you don’t expect continuity in classic Archie. I just think someone could do what Don Rosa did with Donald Duck stories and weave a story that retroactively creates continuity (granted it’s easier to do that if you focus only on stories by the same writer).
>>143329210They've done some stuff with Alexandra's magic recently. I think they explain it as she stopped using magic as it kept backfiring on her.
>>143277000>american mangait's fucking over
>>143329270
>>143298400based frogposter
>>143277039ikr?
>>143284390>The real problem is Dan Parent is a terrible artistHis faces are really off-putting to me; there's something about the perspective, particularly around the mouth and cheeks, that always just looks wrong. >>143324021Ethel hasn't really been drawn as ugly for a long time now; they did away with the lantern jaw, squared-off chisel teeth, and gangly scarecrow proportions in favor of a more natural look where she's closer to the same height as Betty and Veronica and gave her more rounded off buckteeth.
I dont know if it also is DeCarlo but I like the way the girls look the most in the 60s (with the dark colored lips, more vintaged styled banged long hair, and bigger eyes)
>>143331885If you, or anyone else for that matter, is interested, this book is a great primer on a lot of the different Archie artists since the beginning. It’s mostly a gallery of cover art, but each cover has the artist credit underneath so you know who drew it. Each artist also has a page giving a brief overview about them. It’s scanned and easy to find online, pretty sure getcomics has it.
>>143284771>>143330688He’s pretty clearly not that well trained as an artist. He can draw and recreate all the necessary shapes, but without the proper understanding of how they’re all supposed to fit together. It’s why he almost always draws their faces at the exact same angle, because it’s what he knows best. Unfortunately, because of that it’s easy to notice that sometimes the eyes, nose and mouth are a bit off. I wouldn’t outright say he’s horrible, his art is serviceable, but he’s a far cry from the talent that came before him.
>>143329313Thanks for letting me know about that story (Sabrina Annual Spectacular).I always had the headcanon that Alexandra's magic always backfires because she likes the Pussycats even though she can't admit it, so any time she tries to hurt them it backfires on her.There's one story where she actually uses magic to help Josie and Valerie and it works fine, so it sort of fits.
>>143335285Its bullshit how crazy Veronica's figure is.
>>143329270Mouse can get folded
>>143329402Why are gender bent characters always hotter than the original women of any series?Archina is adorable. Jugs is relaxed and smooth. Reggina is a spicy trickster bitch
>>143330688>Ethel hasn't really been drawn as ugly for a long time now; they did away with the lantern jaw, squared-off chisel teeth, and gangly scarecrow proportions in favor of a more natural look where she's closer to the same height as Betty and Veronica and gave her more rounded off buckteeth.For better or worse they've worked to give more conformity to how the girls are drawn. 2024 Archie boarders on being manga where all they change is the haircut.
>>143333706Yeah, he clearly doesn't have the technical knowledge that previous Archie artists did. One other thing that bugs me is how the clothes look in Parent's work; older artists like DeCarlo and Crane pretty clearly drew the bodies first and then went back drew the outfits so they conformed to the outlines of the body. If he's not drawing the girls in a bikini, Parent seems to just draw the clothes first and then the rest of the body. So legs sometimes don't quite match with hips and thighs the way they should and the clothing doesn't hang on their frame as naturally as they did in DeCarlo's art.
Where can I read Harry Lucey's stuff? I saw he has some Best of volumes but they go for a lot nowadays
The scissor sisters
StableDiffusion model of Dan Parent Betty, forced through photorealism prompt. It doesn't handle her having an actual eye color well.
>>143336164…and Ronnie.
>>143329210I blame Alexandra for making me fall in love at first sight with Rogue
>>143335855Lucey was the main artist on the "Archie" title from the late '50s through the early '70s, so if you read that title you'll usually see his work.
>>143316221Don't show /b/, they're still heartbroken over Abby and Britty getting married
>>143301941Sky Butterfly.jpg
Is any of the more modern material any good? I remember seeing a Sabrina series from a few years ago that had cute art
>>143335633According to my research that's Archie Comics 636
>>143278850Archie (the mainline titles, not the specials) has consistently paid some of the lowest page rates in the industry, with their artists either hoping to be discovered elsewhere or there out of nostalgia.By the 90s, most of AC's cash came from Sonic, which died in the fire that destroyed Ken Penders' contract. An insane heir to the company becoming public knowledge, and the sharply declining income had the company downsize into a shoebox office suite that mainly exists to coordinate reprints of their 80 years of work-for-pay content with next to no editorial or art department any more. I'm predicting one of those Canadian IP farms that snaps up older properties like Peanuts or Strawberry Shortcake will buy them out in 5 years or less, diminish its value even further then sell it off at a loss to someone who shuts it down.
>>143309433>Note that the pin-up idea was suggested by "Josie Dumont," aka Mrs. Dan DeCarlo.Fantastic
>>143329027>Of course no one making these comics and stories had any idea why kids liked this music but this seems pretty good natured and funny about the generation gap.I love that aspect of Archie comics. It's so tiring to just be endlessly shit upon by the worst generation for decades upon decades just for existing and not putting up with their outdated antiquated bullshit.
>>143327898>>143327937Thanks for posting these, I'll look more into his stuff
>>143328985idk chief its a little cringe but fun sure
>>143332834this book is on sad panda site
>>143277057he isn't you
>>143335855Credits are kind of a mess in the original comics, and so many stories also get reprinted in different places so unless you're willing to dig, it can be a headache. I've got both of the Best Of volume for Lucey, so here's the table of contents for them. Hopefully the writing here is legible, since it's got the issues and story names, which is handy because issues usually have multiple stories, but not necessarily the same artist on all of them. Scans of single issues should be easy to find from there.
>>143338834
>>143338834Seems to be all right.
>>143338834>>143338848And now after trying to find the proper page of the girls fighting, it's from The Choice and stated to be in Archie 223, but turns out it wasn't. It's from Pep 172. Archie 223 is the only one of them all from the 70s, so hopefully that's the only wrong one!
>>143337297the tag western non-h is such a treasure trove
Bump
>>143329369Smug Sabrina is best Sabrina, I love her so much bros
>>143338834>>143338848You know, it's amazing how prolific Frank Doyle was as a writer for Archie. Choose any one comic from the 50s up to the 80s, and odds are he wrote it. You had other ones like George Gladir that did a lot of stories too, but nothing to Doyle at his peak.
Bedtime necrobump
>>143336974DC should just buy it and make Riverdale some suburb to Gotham. DC already has the same magic rules
>>143339077Girl power
>>143335855>>143336310There's a good Silver Age and Golden Age collection that was put out in 2017 and 2018 and ripped a few years back. GetCo might still have working links. The Silver Age one would be a lot of Lucey.>Best of Archie Americana - Golden Age (2017) (webrip) (Forsythe-DCP).cbr>Best of Archie Americana - Silver Age (2018) (webrip) (Forsythe-DCP).cbr>>143325685>one big book of essential Jughead or Betty & Veronica comicsThere's a few "Best of Archie's" that are 400 pages (or about twice the size of a digest) and I know for sure one features B&V so I suspect there is one for Jughead.I don't know that it's essential stories and I don't know that Archie ever put stuff out in Hardcover so it's collectible to OWN. There's also a batch of Archie Giants, some of these are also in the 480 range but there's at least a few that are 1000 pagers, but again these are paperbound as far as owning them. Many of these have been ripped, so you can at least look for and download them and see if you want to BUY a particular volume.
>>143346434> 1000 pagers paperbound.Doesn't that mean pages will be coming loose very soon?
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>>143319759Jesus fuck, the Zeo Transformation Autist is just as bizzare to me as Murrlogic (The Wonder Bread guy).
>>143347177Hmm, I guess it depends on how you take care of your books. I got in the habit of checking out physicals from my local library branches because I was living in a tiny studio with no space for things like my own books, and a few have some of those DC Showcases, which are essentially 300-400+ pages of B&W reprints with paperback covers, and many of those looked okay - beat up but as far as coming apart no. It's essentially like old phone books if you lived in a large area like NYC or LA. I know people who buy TPBs who get them bound, so you could do that?
>>143328993What can I say?I grew up with the Josie cartoon on Boomerang being my only exposure to Archie really.Mean Skunk Stripe Brat, my beloved>>143336262>>143329210Zased
>>143343056Yeah, Doyle was a machine, I don't know how he did it, especially when you consider that Archie scripts were storyboarded (you can sometimes tell who the writer is just from the layouts) and he doesn't seem to have reused a lot of scripts and even the weaker ones are at least well crafted.Sadly Doyle died in 1996 when no one had bothered to interview the Archie creators. There was some renewed interest in them around 2001 when Dan DeCarlo sued Archie over the Josie rights, but it was too late to know what Doyle thought of his work.
>>143336974>By the 90s, most of AC's cash came from Sonic, which died in the fire that destroyed Ken Penders' contract.And this guy who drowned Archie in licensing fees for his big Sega/Capcom crossover before jumping ship to DC.
>>143336262>Played by Missi Pyle in the shitty 01 Josie movie>Blackwashed in the Teen drama ArchieverseWhy does Hollywood refuse to adapt her right?
>>143349390>Mean Skunk Stripe Brat, my belovedSame. I would even watch what not to wear to watch Stacey be mean to people and she also had a stripe
>>143277056Funny thing is, in one of the newer Archie series he ditches both Veronica and Betty for Sabrina.
>>143277257This joke is absolutely NOTHING!
>>143277341Post the full story.
>>143277396This is kinda demeaning.
>>143300767WTF?
>>143302401Hah?
