...Are "Jughead" and "Jughead Jones" digests of the same title, or different ones? If so, did ACP add the last name to distinguish them from each other, and what were the differences? Just wondering, thanks....
Two different titles. Jughead Jones ran from '77 to '96-ish, the Jughead Digest ran from '89 until 2012. The Jughead digest had more pages, but I don't recall anything differing as far as content goes.
Quote from: steveinthecity on May 20, 2017, 05:44:47 PM
Two different titles. Jughead Jones ran from '77 to '96-ish, the Jughead Digest ran from '89 until 2012. The Jughead digest had more pages, but I don't recall anything differing as far as content goes.
Ah, thank you. :) In other words, ACP was squeezing extra moolah for the same character, just with a slightly different title. Slick....
There have been no less than SIX different digest titles devoted to Jughead over the years, so his history of digest reprint titles can probably be the most confusing to sort out. Okay, really only FIVE if you don't count that one-shot CAPTAIN HERO Maybe the most easily confused digest titles are
JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST (1974-2005) and the very-similarly-titled
JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST (2014-now). For simplicity's sake I've omitted the words "comics" and "magazine" where they've appeared over the years in some digest titles, where they've been sometimes inconsistently applied. I've listed all the ACP digest titles here with the ones devoted to Jughead in
bold:
title | 1st issue | Last issue | # | notes | |
ARCHIE DIGEST | Aug 1973 | Sep 2010 | 267 | Replaced by WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST | |
LAUGH COMICS DIGEST | Aug 1974 | Apr 2005 | 200 | Replaced by TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST | |
JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST | Aug 1974 | May 2005 | 200 | Replaced by JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST | |
ARCHIE ANNUAL DIGEST | 1975 | Apr 1998 | 43 | Continued from ARCHIE ANNUAL #26 (#s27-69) | |
MADHOUSE COMICS DIGEST | 1976 | Aug 1982 | 8 | | |
ARCHIE... ARCHIE ANDREWS, WHERE ARE YOU? DIGEST | Feb 1977 | May 1998 | 114 | | |
JUGHEAD JONES COMICS DIGEST | Jun 1977 | May 1996 | 100 | | |
JOKEBOOK COMICS DIGEST ANNUAL | Oct 1977 | Oct 1983 | 13 | | |
LITTLE ARCHIE COMICS DIGEST | Oct 1977 | May 1991 | 48 | (Issues #1-15 are ANNUALs) | |
ARCHIE'S SUPER HERO SPECIAL COMICS DIGEST | 1978 | 1979 | 2 | | |
BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST | Nov 1980 | Oct 2010 | 208 | Continues as B & V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #209; (Issues #1-4 are ANNUALs) | |
CAPTAIN HERO COMICS DIGEST | 1981 | | 1 | (One-shot) | |
ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST | Jan 1982 | | now | 266+ issues (2016) | |
ARCHIE'S ACTIVITY COMICS DIGEST | 1985 | Aug 1986 | 4 | Replaced by ARCHIE'S STORY AND GAME DIGEST | |
ARCHIE'S STORY AND GAME DIGEST | Nov 1986 | Jan 1998 | 39 | | |
BETTY AND VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST | Jun 1987 | | now | 253+ issues (2016) | |
KATY KEENE COMICS DIGEST | 1987 | Jul 1990 | 10 | | |
THE NEW ARCHIES DIGEST | Oct 1987 | May 1990 | 22 | | |
BETTY AND VERONICA ANNUAL DIGEST | Sep 1989 | Jun 1997 | 16 | Not to be confused with the identically-titled digest from 1980-83 (#1-4) | |
JUGHEAD DOUBLE DIGEST | Oct 1989 | Feb 2014 | 200 | Replaced by JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST | |
ARCHIE'S PALS 'n' GALS DOUBLE DIGEST | Nov 1992 | Nov 2010 | 146 | Replaced by ARCHIE AND FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST | |
VERONICA'S DIGEST | Nov 1992 | Dec 1995 | 6 | | |
ARCHIE ALL CANADIAN DIGEST | Aug 1996 | Aug 1996 | 1 | (One-shot) | |
BETTY'S DIGEST | Nov 1996 | Nov 1997 | 2 | | |
ARCHIE'S HOLIDAY FUN DIGEST | Feb 1997 | Dec 2007 | 12 | | |
JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST | Jun 2005 | Jul 2010 | 38 | Replaced JUGHEAD WITH ARCHIE DIGEST | |
TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST | Jul 2005 | Aug 2010 | 39 | Replaced LAUGH COMICS DIGEST | |
WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST | Oct 2010 | | now | 67+ issues (2016); Replaced ARCHIE DIGEST | |
ARCHIE AND FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST | Dec 2010 | Jan 2014 | 33 | Replaced ARCHIE'S PALS 'n' GALS; replaced by ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE | |
B & V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST | Jan 2011 | | now | 253+ issues (2016); Continued from BETTY AND VERONICA DIGEST #208 | |
ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE DOUBLE DIGEST | Mar 2014 | | now | 26+ issues (2016); Replaced ARCHIE AND FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST | |
JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST | Apr 2014 | | now | 26+ issues (2016); Replaced JUGHEAD DOUBLE DIGEST | |
How about those nice round numbers that a lot of the digests ended their runs with? ACP used to like to celebrate anniversary issues by replacing an old digest title with an entirely new one!
For the longest time period of time there, Archie, B&V, and Jughead all had two simultaneously-ongoing digest titles. That's because one of them was a standard-sized Comics Digest, while the other was the Double Digest for each of the three.
Note, however, that there was a period of time -- six and half years, from Fall 1989 through Spring 1996 -- when JUGHEAD could claim the distinction of having three ongoing digest titles: Jughead With Archie Comics Digest, Jughead's Double Digest, AND The Jughead Jones Comics Digest Magazine.
Apart from the short runs of Veronica's (Passport) Digest and Betty's Digest, and excluding such titles as Little Archie Digest, The New Archies Digest, Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest, Archie & Friends Double Digest, which were less focused on ARCHIE as a character than, well ... everyone, even Archie only has Archie Double Digest, Archie's Funhouse Double Digest, and World of Archie Double Digest being published right now, the latter two of which are less-likely to be packed with exclusively-Archie stories. When those three Jughead digests were all being published at the same time, more than 90% of those stories reprinted ALL had Jughead in them.