Hi,

I'm looking for this comic. Can't seem to find it anywhere.

Archie All Canadian Digest #1
1996 Series - Archie, August 1996, 100 pages.
Format: Digest

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Yeah, I stopped collecting for years, but my interest is back again, and I only recently heard about this edition. Hopefully I can track it down somewhere.

yeah same here, i'll keep looking, if i come across something, i'll let you know

Haha!  Don't feat the Tower!  We have a small one here in Calgary you can visit and then build-up to the CN Tower (although I think it has a new name now).  If you *really* want to freak out, go up the CN Tower and walk across the GLASS FLOOR... it's quite the feeling of "hovering"  .... aaaaaa!  Now I'll have nightmares!

*the digest isn't rare, just one of those things that is in place A when those that want it are in place B.

Good luck finding it.  There was only one issue of the book ever made, and from what I hear, the copies of it were very limited.

I own the book, because I made an effort to get it back in 1996.  It does pop up semi-regularly on eBay though, so keep checking there!

Did any of the stories from this digest end up in regular digests?  I've read several stories where the Archie gang is touring Canada... is that basically what these stories are?

I believe that a couple of them were reprinted in older digests, but a lot of them came from the 32-page pamphlets, like in World of Archie, etc.

If memory serves me, the story set-up was like this...

1.  PROLOGUE (where Archie talks about how he did a report on Canada)
2.  It's a bit fuzzy, but it involves searching for Viking stuff in Canada.
3.  The class goes on a field trip to Montreal and Toronto, where Archie and Jughead believe the tour guide is a criminal...LOL
4.  Archie goes to Ottawa where he is unwittingly involved in a plan which involves some secret about a hockey puck.
5.  Betty and Veronica go on a photo shoot in Vancouver, where a photographer named Micro tries to sabotage their shoot.

I'd have to go through my copy of the book to go into more detail, but I do know that the last story has appeared in older digests.

What is really sad is that the last page had a thing in it where you could tell the editors where you wanted to see the Archies go in Canada next, as if they were going to do a second Canadian issue, but we all know it never happened.   

It's a shame really, if there was, they could've reprinted Veronica in Canada...and other stories...I remember the New Archies visited Canada once!

As a collector of both Archie and Canadian comics - I really need this one now!

Funny story on older Archie comics - there are actually some Archie comics from the 1940s that are Canadian editions.  There is one very, very bizarre one with Archie as a .... wait for it .... FISH!

In the radio interview here in Calgary that Victor was on - we talked about the Archie/Canada connection.  Canada has a real love-affair with Archie and one caller suggested that Edmonton, Alberta was the largest per capita consumers of Archie comics.  In fact, Canadians in general read more Archie comics than our neighbours down south (per capita - the US has 10X our population).

Now donuts...THOSE we eat more in TOTAL than the US.

If you want to check out some of these covers, visit www.comics.org and you can search for them by title.