In the Eighties Krause Publications published a magazine-sized comics fans/aficinados/history magazine called " COMIC COLLECTOR " , rather a magazine-sized version of their Comic Buyer's Guide .
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...OOoooookay , I post under circumstances where I have only minutes and have to sign back in again and start all over .
  This 80s issue of Comic Collector had an excellent article about Archie as a comics character , maybe the best one I've ever seen...One of the few " serious " and in depth fan articles ever . Anyone else remember this ??

I bought the issue from mycomicshop.com and it is an excellent (and lengthy) article. Can anyone recommend any other great magazine articles or interviews about Archie Comics?

...I guess it wasn't by anybody who posts here , then:-( .
  Do you remember what ish Who(m!!) it was by
  Did you see the post here about the VANITY FAIR on-line only article from a year-and-a-halfish ago ??
  " Great " it wasn't quite , the VF people a little too whole-heartedly swallowed/repeated the Archie corporate Kool-Aid(R)/corporate image , but it was interesting , and to see such a somewhat " upscale " - but semi-" snotty " (if that's the right term) mag writing about Archie , well!...........

I would post scans if I had a scanner.

The article you're talking about (I think) is currently available here:

http://eepomigosh.blogspot.com/2009/09/americas-typical-teen-ager-article-by.html

...It IS interesting to note again that Walter (??! ?!! ?) Irwin does , infact , straightforwardly say that he thinks that the Archie titles really started to go downhill , strongly so , in the mid-60s .
  I recalled him saying " Batman fans aren't the only ones who can complain about what a TV series did to their character " , but I guess that it wasn't him .
  He reminds me of something that I've been thinking - " Older " Archie stories made use of magical/illogical situations far more than modern-times ones do , rather like old movie/TV comedies would have " a husband and wife change minds with each other because of a mysterios idol " , I recall readin a reprint fairly recently in which a mystic book Arch and Jug are reading in a library give (Archie's) " enemy " - Reggie - powers...
  He makes no mention of any latter-day Archie artist at all , I believe .
  Not DeCarlo , not Goldberg , not Lucey...Odd contrast to DeCarlo having " the " fan-mentioned Archie artist in modern years...
  He does seem to make what appears to be a fairly common mistake , saying that the Archies were added only when the TV show started...That model sheet ( by Lucey ) or Archie's room , etc. , is of interest...The pic of the " classic " Archies on his wall , as well as the beatles , and even Bob Dylan , on his wall might place it as late Sixties ( v early Seventies ) !...Interesting , he thinks that Archie rather went strongly downhill in the very late Sixties than somewhat - but not completely - pulled themselves out of the mud in the early Seventies - Presumably he feel they continued in about that same way well into the Reagan Presidency...He referrs to the newspaper strip as " always more popular than the comic book(s) " .
  Even if that was true before , do you still really think that that's so ! ?

I agreed with some points of the article and others I didn't.  I always enjoyed the superhero parodies although the author didn't.  They aren't my favorite but I found them to usually be very witty.

I think that one thing that made the article better than average though was that it was written by someone who actually read Archie comics and appreciated them.  There are very few articles written about Archie comics from a fan perspective.  For that matter, it's uncommon to find articles about Archie that give the series due consideration as a cultural icon.