Derek, you might want to contact our "resident Archie expert" Forsythe about that. If anyone knows that info, he would. You can email him through his profile here: http://www.archiefans.com/profile/?u=54

He hasn't been active here in some time, but he still answers emails regularly.

Quote from: derekwc on December 18, 2011, 06:17:44 PM

Quote from: Oldiesmann on December 15, 2011, 08:33:42 AM

Derek, you might want to contact our "resident Archie expert" Forsythe about that. If anyone knows that info, he would. You can email him through his profile here: http://www.archiefans.com/profile/?u=54

He hasn't been active here in some time, but he still answers emails regularly.

I did like you suggested.

FYI I haven't heard anything from Forsythe about first appearances yet. However using Comic Book Database's chronological appearance feature, I was able to make some guesses
regarding certain characters. Some I have been able to verify (at least appearances if not the 1st ones for Frankie, Maria, and Hermione Lodge). I've made some alterations and additions to the top post. Feel free to question and/or confirm any findings made in this manner. For instance the earliest known chronological appearance of Ginger Lopez indicates July 2002 issue of Archie and Friends (1992) #57, however I have seen on this board that people have been mentioning Betty and Veronica Spectacular #50.

As to the Filmation characters Q and Carlos, I am starting to believe they are just that. I looked through the Archie Comics series from 1977 and didn't find any indication of a Carlos as in the Filmation cartoon. He could have appeared in other books, so I will keep researching. But so far the only Carlos I know of, is a  Carlos Moreno from Pep Comics #285, but this is an older gentlemen and clearly has nothing to do with the Filmation character.