Archie comic books

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PEP Comics, originally published by MLJ Magazines, is the series that introduced the world to Archie Andrews in 1941. Though it started as an anthology featuring various heroes like The Hangman and The Shield, the runaway success of Archie led MLJ to eventually focus the comic book on him and his Riverdale pals. PEP Comics continued under the Archie Comics imprint for decades, solidifying its place as a launchpad for the iconic teenager and his teenage universe.

PEP Comics, originally published by MLJ Magazines, is the series that introduced the world to Archie Andrews in 1941. Though it started as an anthology featuring various heroes like The Hangman and The Shield, the runaway success of Archie led MLJ to eventually focus the comic book on him and his Riverdale pals. PEP Comics continued under the Archie Comics imprint for decades, solidifying its place as a launchpad for the iconic teenager and his teenage universe.

In the 1960s, besides sci-fi and superhero comics, most of us also read "teen humor" comics... ...like Tower's Tippy Teen, which featured this tale that started off with the heroine reading a romance comic... If the plotting and art style on this tale from Tippy Teen #17 (1967) reads like an Archie Comics story, that's because many Archie writers and artists (who were freelancers) including Sam Schwartz, Harry Shorten, and Dan DeCarlo, also worked on Tippy strips for Tower Comics'…

Hang in there, Big Ethel.

Oh, Archies.

Josie and the Pussycats by Dan DeCarlo

Apple Pie was a humor magazine in the 1970s much like National Lampoon but focused a bit more on the comics and illustrations. The premier issue, released in 1975, contained a wonderfully irrelevant parody of the Archie comics, specifically Betty & Veronica.