In the pantheon of comic characters, perhaps the most lovable and yet so everyday character happens to be Archie. Happiness pervades the Archie universe and has done so for seventy plus years now. In India, where I come from, Archie Comics were a bit of a luxury comic and so enjoyable; escapades of a guy with two curvaceous and luscious-lipped girlfriends.There was humor, there was beautiful imagery, a vision of what small-town U.S is like, what a triple sundae was, longings for a banana-split he he he he.
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Lets look up some interesting facts on Ol Carrot top, Archie Andrews -
- Archie’s full name is Archibald Andrews and he was drawn by cartoonist Bob Montana. He debuted in the December 1941 issue of Pep Comics.
- Archie was created by publisher/editor John L. Goldwater, who also created the other characters of Archie Comics – Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and Reggie.
- Nobody knows the exact location of Riverdale High, but what is known is that John L. Goldwater stayed in the Riverdale section of the Bronx; Bob Montana sketched out real life characters that he came across in his time at Haverhill, Massachusetts and created the gang for the comics.
- Archie Andrews was 17 years when he debuted and is still seventeen years old.
- Archie’s parents are Fred and Mary Andrews and he is their only son.
- He has an old rundown jalopy, Ol’ Betsy that never fails to let him down when he’s on a date.
- In the very earliest issues of Archie Comics, he had a dog named Spot but the animal character was dropped later on with no explanation.
- Everybody knows that his two perennial love interests are Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge; the wealthy Miss Lodge debuted a couple of issues later, after Betty did.
- Archie Andrews is of Scottish ancestry, is a rather poor player of the bagpipes but happens to be the lead singer and lead guitar of the band The Archies. The real-life band of the same name had its fling with popularity and also had a number one hit – Sugar Sugar.
- Archie holds the unofficial world record as the only comic books character to have appeared in the highest number of comic books; take that Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and all you supernovas of the comic universe.
- The Life with Archie series in the 1960s didn’t last long but in these issues Archie and his pals experienced numerous thrill-a-minute adventures.
- Recent issues of Archie have focused on introducing an element of realism, with Archie having a relationship with Valerie Smith, a black girl and also the loss of his beloved teacher Miss Grundy to cancer.
- A testament to the popularity of Archie comics is that the official Archie site Archiecomics.com gets more than 40 million hits a month.
