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irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 19, 2016, 11:42:25 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on June 18, 2016, 06:25:00 PM
Anything special in those Betty and Veronica digests? I've been reading some older Betty and Veronica digests and they used to publish some Josie stories.


Don't really know. I'll let you know after I read them. I have a game plan for collecting digests... apart from only a few very-short-run titles, I'm only collecting digests from the period of 2005 through 2014 (I didn't start getting the current digest titles until January 2015). 2005 is when LAUGH COMICS DIGEST and JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST were cancelled and replaced by TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST and JUGHEAD & FRIENDS DIGEST, respectively. Both of those titles distinguished themselves from the ones they replaced by featuring (then-)new stories in every issue. Looking at other digests from the around the same time, I noticed that other titles also began featuring new stories. BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST had new stories from at least issue #185 (that's the first one I'm sure of, at any rate), which was "Betty and Veronica Meet Betty and Veronica", the second in a series of four Memory Lane stories, so that's the point I picked to go back to as a starting point (good luck finding a non-digital copy of 185, though I've read the story in question). It's a short run to the end after that, since BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST ends (after getting a brand-new logo in issue #188) with #208, and is thereafter replaced by B&V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #209 (which I'm also collecting beginning with that issue). I think I mentioned this before, but B&V FRIENDS has Josie stories in every issue. Still missing a couple dozen of those.


Archie Digests history at a glance:
http://www.archiefans.com/index.php?media/file/archie-digest-history-as-of-2016.323/


I think new lead stories were featured in the early Betty and Veronica double digests a lot more often than we previously released or at least the lead stories don't seem to be reprinted. I have almost all these DD's and I've been perusing them looking for Josie and Sabrina stories.


I've been going through trying to find all the Josie and the Pussycats stories. In Archie and Friends, each issue had a Pussycats long after they disappeared from the cover.

DeCarlo Rules

#106
Quote from: irishmoxie on June 19, 2016, 12:47:44 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on June 19, 2016, 11:42:25 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on June 18, 2016, 06:25:00 PM
Anything special in those Betty and Veronica digests? I've been reading some older Betty and Veronica digests and they used to publish some Josie stories.


Don't really know. I'll let you know after I read them. I have a game plan for collecting digests... apart from only a few very-short-run titles, I'm only collecting digests from the period of 2005 through 2014 (I didn't start getting the current digest titles until January 2015). 2005 is when LAUGH COMICS DIGEST and JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST were cancelled and replaced by TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST and JUGHEAD & FRIENDS DIGEST, respectively. Both of those titles distinguished themselves from the ones they replaced by featuring (then-)new stories in every issue. Looking at other digests from the around the same time, I noticed that other titles also began featuring new stories. BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST had new stories from at least issue #185 (that's the first one I'm sure of, at any rate), which was "Betty and Veronica Meet Betty and Veronica", the second in a series of four Memory Lane stories, so that's the point I picked to go back to as a starting point (good luck finding a non-digital copy of 185, though I've read the story in question). It's a short run to the end after that, since BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST ends (after getting a brand-new logo in issue #188) with #208, and is thereafter replaced by B&V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #209 (which I'm also collecting beginning with that issue). I think I mentioned this before, but B&V FRIENDS has Josie stories in every issue. Still missing a couple dozen of those.


Archie Digests history at a glance:
http://www.archiefans.com/index.php?media/file/archie-digest-history-as-of-2016.323/


I think new lead stories were featured in the early Betty and Veronica double digests a lot more often than we previously released or at least the lead stories don't seem to be reprinted. I have almost all these DD's and I've been perusing them looking for Josie and Sabrina stories.


I've been going through trying to find all the Josie and the Pussycats stories. In Archie and Friends, each issue had a Pussycats long after they disappeared from the cover.


I read those issues of BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST today, and I think out of the three digests there were maybe two stories that I hadn't read before. They all contain 12-page JOSIE sections (two issues with stories from the ARCHIE & FRIENDS issues, only one with classic-era J&TP stories - that I'd read before). They all contain SABRINA sections (but it's *UGH!* "The Animated Series" Sabrina, so I skipped them). There were probably some new-at-the-time stories in there, but the only notable one was Dan Parent's 24-page "Sleeping Betty" (1st appearance here in #207 [from 2010], with a great cover) -- but again, it's one I'd already read.


B&V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #236 [from 2013] was far superior, containing mostly stories I hadn't read before, including a JOSIE section with stories from (I'd guess) the 70s or early 80s. No Sabrina in this one, but there were also separate sections for LI'L JINX (skipped it) and CHERYL BLOSSOM (hadn't read it, and loved it), plus the usual mix of more recent stories and even a couple of classic era ones (none of those in the other B&V digests I'd read earlier). It not only had a new lead B&V story (by Dan Parent), but new (at least I assume) stories with GINGER (Lopez, not Snapp! - 6 pages, Dan P again) and ...hold on to your hat ... NANCY!! By Holly G., no less! (5 pages) Looking cuter than I've ever seen her, with a unique frizzly 'do and some big hoop earrings --just Nancy, and her cat, no Chuck! I practically fell off my chair -- I think I might have seen a Ginger solo story before, but I've never seen a Nancy solo story! (I swear, if I ever saw a Midge solo story, I'd probably die of a stroke or something.)


Then there was VERONICA'S PASSPORT DIGEST #2 [Dec. 1993], which reprinted 4 early issues of VERONICA, complete with fashion pages (issues #4/"in Hollywood"; #7/"in Australia"; #8/"in Mexico"; and #13/"in Canada"). That one was pretty amazing -- not only 4 early issues of VERONICA, none of which I'd read before, but the pages were bright white like it had just rolled off the presses yesterday (not the cheaper paper you see used in a lot of the older digests -- in fact it might even be better than the paper stock they're using today).

BettyReggie

#107
I order a Blank Jughead #1. I used my $25 Betty Gift Card & the code word Archie for 25% off. Then it came 0.00, I'm going mail to Gabbie Gross so she can draw Jughead on it.

BettyReggie

#108
I preordered Betty & Veronica #1 from the Google Play Store.

DeCarlo Rules

Just purchased a complete set (120) of Skybox Archie Comic Trading Cards (1992) off ebay.

60sBettyandReggie

I bought a perfume, 2 cute blouses, a pair of jeans and a pair of sneakers.

BettyReggie

I preorder another Blank Betty & Veronica #1 & by using the code word Archie & one of my $25 Betty Gift cards it came to be $0.00

Archiecomicxfan215

my mom was in Maine on a vacation and went to Casablanca Comics in Portland on 151 Middle Street. She brought me Archie and Jughead Comics Annual #22,
Archie #4, Jughead #8, and Betty and Veronica #1 :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:

BettyReggie

I bought this one from www.archiecomics.com. I used the 30% code best30 & a $25 Betty gift card. So then it was free.
Archie #11- Sanya Anwar variant

Purgatori


BettyReggie

#115
That's so cool, Who made that? I'm going look on eBay. You should put in a comic frame & hang it on your wall. Amazon sells comic frames.

Purgatori

Quote from: BettyReggie on September 07, 2016, 08:35:18 AM
That's so cool, Who made that? I'm going look on eBay. You should put in a comic frame & hang it on your wall. Amazon sells comic frames.

Thanks. It's by British artist Gary Parkin - not someone whose work I'm familiar with, but obviously I couldn't resist the subject matter. He seems to specialise in painting blank cover variants. I hadn't thought of hanging it on my wall, but you're right, I should

steveinthecity

Quote from: Purgatori on September 08, 2016, 03:42:26 AM
Quote from: BettyReggie on September 07, 2016, 08:35:18 AM
That's so cool, Who made that? I'm going look on eBay. You should put in a comic frame & hang it on your wall. Amazon sells comic frames.

Thanks. It's by British artist Gary Parkin - not someone whose work I'm familiar with, but obviously I couldn't resist the subject matter. He seems to specialise in painting blank cover variants. I hadn't thought of hanging it on my wall, but you're right, I should
Please "Google" Gary Parkin art fans.   :-X
Comics!

BettyReggie

#118

I preorder Reggie's 80 page Giant Comic #1 from Midtown Comics.

rusty

I just purchased copies of Superboy #53 (1956) and Captain Marvel Jr. #122 (1952).

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