I'm so glad this thread came up!!!  I'm a new member, and I discovered this forum while searching for information about Archie stories!  I've noticed that especially lately, the digest reprints alter a LOT of material from the original stories.  Here's some recent examples I've found:

In Betty & Veronica Double Digest #69, there's a B&V story called "Scents-ation" which has Veronica saying that a certain cologne "just turns me on".  Betty gets a bottle of this cologne for Archie's birthday only to find out he wants it for Veronica because it "turns her on".  This story was recently reprinted in B&V Double Digest #150 with all references to "turns her on" being changed to "drives her crazy."

In Archie's Double Digest #93, there's an Al Hartley story called "It's A Gas" where Archie fills his tires with helium and ends up floating in the sky.  A few key changes happen when it was reprinted in Archie Digest #239.  Archie Digest #239 includes the new story where they retcon Archie's grandfather Artie as being the owner of Archie's classic jalopy, and that it ended up in Mr Lodge's car collection.  So after that story, the reprint of "It's A Gas" changes one panel on the first page to explain the car is Mr. Lodge's.  In the original story it costs $2 to fill the tires with helium, it's $5 in the reprint. And Moose's dialogue on the last page is totally changed.  The original goes "D-uh -- It's like we wuz riding on Gossamer wings."  This changes to "D-uh -- It's like riding on a cotton candy road."

There was a 1972 story called "The Pad Fad" in Life With Archie #117.  The story gets reprinted in Archie's Double Digest #100 with nothing changed except for Mary Andrews' appearance.  The original story shows her as a hefty white haired woman, where the reprint edits her to not only be skinnier but changes her hair to the "modern" style she wears in the 80s and onward, with the short upswept red hair.  She is the only character altered in every panel of the story.

And Tuxedo, as a Cheryl Blossom fan, I remember there was a big change to one of the stories she appeared in.  There was an Everything's Archie story published in the early 1980's where Cheryl basically forces the Archies to take her in as their lead singer in order to keep a gig they were playing.  At the end of the story when she debuts as their singer, she comes out in lingerie complete with fishnets and a garter belt.  I don't remember what issue it appeared in, but the reprint appeared sometime in the 90s, with her lingerie completely reinked to be a tasteful dress.  It totally ruined the punchline of the original story!

I've also noticed many one page gags being completely rewritten with old art, but new gags.  There was a Josie And The Pussycats gag with Alex Cabot singing and Valerie cracking "He's the only singer who can bring a tear to my ear."  The rewrite appears in B&V Double Digest #150, with the new line "Only Alex's singing can wake the dead."

This is only the tip of the iceberg   

I remember that Cheryl Blossom story. If nothing else, that is the image of Cheryl that automatically comes to mind when I think of her. We should try to get that image for this link. It's a doozy!

The standard ones deal with changing the text.  For instance, Veronica once said that she went to the carnival in Rio in 1987 back in the 1990's.  10 years later, it was changed to 1997.

But, here's an interesting change.  There was a story in which Archie impersonates Mr. Lodge for a father/daughter dance because Mr. Lodge couldn't get time off to take Veronica.  Well, Mr. Lodge ends up dancing with Betty, and Betty remarked that it wasn't like dancing with someone's father.  Veronica got mad at Archie and sent him away, while Mr. Lodge managed to make it to the dance after all.  Of course, Veronica, thinking Mr. Lodge was Archie totally talked back and berated him.  Depending on the version you have, you could have 2 VERY DIFFERENT outcomes.

In the 2000 version (which I have, but don't remember what book it appears in), Mr. Lodge takes a chair and forces Veronica to stand in the corner...

...but this version appeared in Jughead Jones Digest #11 (Dec. 1979), with a DIFFERENT outcome...one that I could see why they decided to change after a while.

Welcome to the board Garth!

Thanks for all the info

Sad to see today's kid readers being babied like that.

That's also why most of today's animated cartoons on TV, animated movies, and newspaper comics are pretty mediocre lately.

To protect today's frail children from EVERYTHING in sight, no thanks to their overprotective soccer moms. In fact, many of the poor kids are even allergic to PEANUT BUTTER and they CAN'T even watch any of episodes of Sesame Street that WE grew up with! No kidding.

Just my opinion.

Anyway, just let me weed up some old and new stories with such changes you're talking and scan them when I can, ok?

(One thing I notice the MOST about the changes in Archie comics is how the girls' lipstick changed from a bright red to a modest pink, BTW!)
 

Brunette,
 I could not agree more. Everything has to be so sanitized and Politically Correct these days.
MJB

"It took 6 whole hours and 5 long days 4 all your lies to come undone, and those 3 small words were way 2 late, 'cause you can't see that I'm the 1."

- Josie and the Pussycats

You ought to quote it like this!

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but I wanted to see if anyone else got it.

I remember a story where the girls were building sandcastles on the beach, and the guys were feeling left out, so they built their own "sandcastles" which turned out to just be a larger, sand-version of Betty and Veronica. The story was in one of the first comics I'd ever read, and I don't remember giving it much notice. In a later issue, when the story was reprinted, the large sand-girls were drawn with obvious bathing suit lines that had previously been left out. Only then did I really think anything of the earlier comic without the suits. I guess the implications of large, naked, sand people is a big no-no.