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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 4:06:08 GMT -5
I love the cover with the jalopy. When I was a kid I thought all the Archie stories I read must have been reprints because of that car. I'm wondering how many of them were? I know I had an Archie digest I bought about a year ago where he had like a Prius in one story. And I remember the robot car, that I think looked like an 80's Mustang or something.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 15, 2015 11:21:07 GMT -5
I love the cover with the jalopy. When I was a kid I thought all the Archie stories I read must have been reprints because of that car. I'm wondering how many of them were? I know I had an Archie digest I bought about a year ago where he had like a Prius in one story. And I remember the robot car, that I think looked like an 80's Mustang or something. Archie had the jalopy well into the 80's. #238 had a special 25th anniversary issue teasing Archie finally getting a new car. The internet claims the jalopy was destroyed in this issue, but in fact it was souped up and turned into a hot rod. I've done a little digging, and in #246 he still has the jalopy, but in #247 he's driving a mid-60's Ford Mustang. There's no explanation or comment on this. So I assume the changeover happened in the pages of another comic - probably Archie - in or around the February, 1985 issue. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 15, 2015 15:43:04 GMT -5
Added review for #118, 119 and 120.
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Post by MDG on Jan 21, 2015 13:08:03 GMT -5
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Post by senatortombstone on Sept 12, 2015 21:01:24 GMT -5
I am not sure if this first appeared in a LwA issue; however, as I recall, in Archie Double Digest #63 (60-65 as an utter limit), Archie and friends became trapped in a painting. I remember this as the scariest issue of Archie.
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Post by Crimebuster on Sept 12, 2015 23:38:43 GMT -5
I am not sure if this first appeared in a LwA issue; however, as I recall, in Archie Double Digest #63 (60-65 as an utter limit), Archie and friends became trapped in a painting. I remember this as the scariest issue of Archie. Oh yes, this is from Life with Archie #133. "Culture Shock." I cited this in my Halloween countdown last year, and posted the entire story, if you want to read it again: classiccomics.boards.net/post/41271/threadOne of the best, along with #125 and #160. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 30, 2015 22:04:00 GMT -5
Added reviews for #121-125.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 31, 2015 0:01:55 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Dec 31, 2015 0:16:26 GMT -5
I'm really surprised by the serious nature of #112-114 and #116. How do you go from offering kids an extended lesson on creating their own comic book to having Betty become the victim of a violent crime all in the same subscription year?! edit: You've talked up #125 so many times before. I'm surprised you waited this long to get to it in this thread  |
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Post by senatortombstone on Jan 4, 2016 22:24:02 GMT -5
I am not sure if this first appeared in a LwA issue; however, as I recall, in Archie Double Digest #63 (60-65 as an utter limit), Archie and friends became trapped in a painting. I remember this as the scariest issue of Archie. Oh yes, this is from Life with Archie #133. "Culture Shock." I cited this in my Halloween countdown last year, and posted the entire story, if you want to read it again: classiccomics.boards.net/post/41271/threadOne of the best, along with #125 and #160. Thanks! I have always found it amazing how Archie writers could stuff a decently dense story into just a dozen pages. The plot of this story could definitely be stretched out into a multi-parted series, but they did an excellent job in just 12 pages. |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 25, 2019 19:44:34 GMT -5
Been slowly collecting and reading these, having been inspired long ago by this thread. It's a bit hard to reply to your reviews since they are all merged into a single thread, but let me weigh in with my personal favorites thus far (note: I'm acquiring actual issues, so there are major gaps in my reading. I'm inevitably missing some classics):
Life with Archie #3 -- I'm not quite sure why I found the paradise that the teens created while cast away on a desert island so endearing. Perhaps it was their endurance and cheer in the face of setback. Whatever the case, this one made me smile.
Life with Archie #23 -- Possibly the funniest Archie comic I've ever read. I generally find Mr. Lodge's reactions to Archie as very "been there, done that." but this was the quintessential version of that story, and it did it to laugh-out-loud effect.
Life with Archie #31 -- I'm a junkie for New York World's Fair material (both 1940 and 1964), and the unexpected mix of action into this story, all while the futuristic backdrop of the World's Fair dazzles the background images, made for high entertainment.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 26, 2019 15:48:54 GMT -5
Yuk. Just read #45, the first Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. issue in my collection. I was really looking forward to this spoof, but not only was it utterly lacking in cleverness or even basic storytelling, the B story was really really (I mean shockingly) sexist. Like crazy over the top. Archie was never exactly a feminist book (especially as the term didn't even exist in the 40s and 50s), but this story about a girl's basketball team starting up at Riverdale was really intent on putting women who wanted equality in their place. It was so angry it was barely even humorous.
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Post by Crimebuster on Sept 26, 2019 16:28:59 GMT -5
Yuk. Just read #45, the first Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. issue in my collection. I was really looking forward to this spoof, but not only was it utterly lacking in cleverness or even basic storytelling, the B story was really really (I mean shockingly) sexist. Like crazy over the top. Archie was never exactly a feminist book (especially as the term didn't even exist in the 40s and 50s), but this story about a girl's basketball team starting up at Riverdale was really intent on putting women who wanted equality in their place. It was so angry it was barely even humorous. I personally find this era to be the book's worst, and for me it's not close. All the parody stuff beginning around #42 or so just doesn't work for me, I just don't find it funny. The Pureheart superhero spoofs from this era are better than Man from RIVERDALE - or the Archies stuff that comes along a little later spoofing The Monkees - but none of it is great. Following this era is an era from around #65 or so through around #100 where the book is mainly just short gag strips, like Pep or any other random Archie comic. The title totally loses its entire reason for existing, but the content is at least average level humor strip, as opposed to the tedious stuff in the parody era. It doesn't really start getting good again until around #110 when it returns to its roots as a more serious longer form adventure/drama series. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Sept 26, 2019 16:29:26 GMT -5
I wish I had time to return to this thread, I just have so many projects going on I can't find time for everything I'd like to do!
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Post by shaxper on Sept 26, 2019 17:12:41 GMT -5
Finished the dreaded Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. issues. I next read #68 and 74. Your previous comments led me to suspect an Archie's Jokebook sort of approach, but #68 told several extended stories in the crime genre (I didn't particularly enjoy them) and #74 just felt like a generic Archie book, with three stories (two of which I really enjoyed) that could have been printed in any old title. Still, I enjoyed them. At this point, The Archies are getting mentioned but not taking center stage in the book.
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