Hi all,

My sister and her friends were big fans of the Archie comics in the 1970s, mainly buying those small digests.  However, she recently mentioned that she was looking for a different version that she had last seen in the mid-late seventies which I believe she had originally purchased in the USA.  I'm not sure if they were ever available in Canada (where we are).

From what she recalled, the comics weren't regular size, but they were larger, like a magazine.  I haven't seen anything in the local comic shops other than standard or digests, so I'm wondering what these could be.

Could they have been the "Archie Giant Series" of comics? [I'm not allowed to post links but if you search for the text that I have in quotes, or see the attached image, you'll see what I'm referring to]

Am hoping to hunt some down since she'd like to give them to her old friends as nostalgic "fun" gifts this Christmas.

Thanks for any info!

Brad

Hi, and thanks for your speedy reply! I will have to check to see if this is what she was thinking of. 
Did some digging, and it looks as though this one Christmas edition was the only magazine/treasury size ever published.  Is this true to the best of your knowledge?

Thanks again!  She doesn't believe it was that Christmas issue, but wrote back and said "they were magazine size but with about 2-3 times the amount of content that were in the digests."  It's my guess that she is thinking of the Giant series I mentioned, even though they are standard comic dimensions (but considering some have 'magazine' printed on the cover, maybe that's what she's thinking of).