Quote from: invisifan on April 13, 2016, 01:30:19 PM

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on April 13, 2016, 01:20:48 PM
There's a story I have in BVDD #82 called Ride Like the Wind. Veronica is visiting her cousin Tate and his wife Julie who live on a farm in Kansas. I don't know if that cousin ever appeared in other stories.

Thanks, I'll try to get that; of course aside from being from Mr. Lodge's side of the family we also don't know where or how harper fits in either ...

If any one else knows any appearance for lesser known relative of character — mention them here and I'll compile a list ...

Eventually you'd wind up with a list of dozens of aunts, uncles, and cousins - meaning that all the parents came from huge families. For example, in JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE COMICS DIGEST #2 which I just read, there's a story ("Post Haste") where Archie gets a notice of a package in the mail from Veronica's Uncle Cedric, and is very excited to get to the post office to pick it up and find out what's in it. Uncle Cedric isn't in the actual story, and neither is Veronica. In this same digest, there's also a story ("You Ought NOT To Be In Pictures") where Jughead decides to enter Jellybean in the 'Li'l Miss Riverdale Cutie Pie' contest. There's a single panel where he mentions "Cousin Horace at Kresskell's Dept. Store told me about it." There's two relatives right there, and they never even appeared in the stories. That same digest has a story, "Buzzin' Cousin", that features Veronica's cousin Alice. There's one random digest issue with 3 different relatives!

In the more extended family area, you've got "Grandpa" Jones, who isn't actually Jughead's grandfather, but his elderly clone. (You can't get more closely related than that!) After he retired from the Time Police, Jughead had this clone created with all of his memories, and the clone was put into hibernation to be woken up in the case of any Time Police emergencies (he winds up traveling back to Civil War times to rescue the original Jughead, and becomes the Colonel Pickens whose statue now sits in Riverdale's Pickens Park). Also seen in TIME POLICE was Merlin Jones, another relative of Jughead's, this one his elderly descendant (and founder of the Time Police) who decides to spend his retirement in medieval Camelot, thus inspiring the stories of Merlin the magician.

ARCHIE GIANT SERIES #602 also has a 2-page feature on "Jughead's Family Tree". (Possibly a feature that had other installments? Who knows?) It spotlights four relatives of Jughead's: Bixx "Spit-Valve" Jones, big band songwriter and trumpet player; Ipswitch Jones, space explorer and all around nice guy; Biff "Spillman" Jones (also known as "Wrong Way" Jones), a naval captain of the early decades of the 20th Century; and Lujak Jones, a popular club boxer of the 1930s who became a celebrity and whose later career had his picture plastered on billboards and in magazines, and whose gravel voice graced many adventure radio programs - after being involved in a scandal, he became a gym teacher and taught at Riverdale High until 1958.

Another Jughead relative.

I can think of at least two appearances of Grandma Cooper.  In one I read not long ago Grandma Cooper lives in Riverdale and Archie and Jug tag along with Betty as she is delivering a basket of food to her grandmother.  For whatever reason Grandma Cooper leaves the house and Jughead steals the food basket.  I'll have to take a look for where that story appeared.

EDIT: Ok, I have part of the story incorrect.  The story is "Changing Times" from Jughead #187(v. 1).  After Reggie and Jug learn Betty is taking a basket of treats to her Grandmother, Reggie runs ahead to get there before either Betty or Jug arrive.  Reggie tells Grandma Cooper "there's a big sale at Crenshaw's Department Store" so Granny heads to the sale leaving Reggie in the house.  He considers wearing one of Grandma's outfits in order to fool Betty when she arrives, but ultimately just decides to wait.  Betty then arrives with the basket and engages in some apparent horseplay with Reggie until Jughead shows up and absconds with the basket.  There's a few Little Red Riding Hood references and jokes made throughout the story.

I remember a story where Archie had to stay home because his grandparents were visiting to show videos of their holidays.  He thought it would be boring but by the end of the story he was planning to join his grandparents on their next holiday as their cameraman.

Veronica has a Aunt that appear in a issue or two. She drove a big truck . And what Marcy Veronica's nerdy cousin was a geek. She was wanted Veronica to really like but Veronica just thought she was a weird. Reggie's Brother Oliver was only in one issue. He was called because his father was in the hospital because of Heart Attack, Reggie called him.

Quote from: steveinthecity on September 24, 2016, 04:03:39 AM
I can think of at least two appearances of Grandma Cooper.  In one I read not long ago Grandma Cooper lives in Riverdale and Archie and Jug tag along with Betty as she is delivering a basket of food to her grandmother.  For whatever reason Grandma Cooper leaves the house and Jughead steals the food basket.  I'll have to take a look for where that story appeared.

Wasn't there a story where Betty's grandmother has a farm, and the gang goes there to visit? (But of course, she has more than one, so that doesn't conflict with your Grandma Cooper.) Or was that Jughead's Granny? Or maybe that was something from the Filmation cartoon Archie, it's just a vague recollection.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 24, 2016, 11:38:00 AM

Quote from: steveinthecity on September 24, 2016, 04:03:39 AM
I can think of at least two appearances of Grandma Cooper.  In one I read not long ago Grandma Cooper lives in Riverdale and Archie and Jug tag along with Betty as she is delivering a basket of food to her grandmother.  For whatever reason Grandma Cooper leaves the house and Jughead steals the food basket.  I'll have to take a look for where that story appeared.

Wasn't there a story where Betty's grandmother has a farm, and the gang goes there to visit? (But of course, she has more than one, so that doesn't conflict with your Grandma Cooper.) Or was that Jughead's Granny? Or maybe that was something from the Filmation cartoon Archie, it's just a vague recollection.

The farm story rings a bell.  Was it a ranch-type farm where the gang rode horses?

Also, for anyone keeping score at home, please recall that Archie's Grandfather appeared in the very first Archie story in Pep #22. I hadn't seen that mentioned.

From the new lead story in the latest ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST (#272), entitled "Giving Up the Ghost", Veronica's great uncle Jacob Lodge is mentioned, and a wing of the Lodge mansion had been closed off because Jacob is said to have been the victim of a grisly murder that was never solved. In the story, Veronica has re-opened the disused wing of the mansion to host a Halloween haunted house for underprivileged kids, and a party for her friends.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 25, 2016, 12:22:09 AM
From the new lead story in the latest ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST (#272), entitled "Giving Up the Ghost", Veronica's great uncle Jacob Lodge is mentioned, and a wing of the Lodge mansion had been closed off because Jacob is said to have been the victim of a grisly murder that was never solved. In the story, Veronica has re-opened the disused wing of the mansion to host a Halloween haunted house for underprivileged kids, and a party for her friends.

Yeah that was a pretty good story, I thought. Are the Kennedy brothers still doing new stories in the digests, or is it just Parent now (or anybody else)?

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 15, 2016, 06:21:59 AM
Another Jughead relative.

Too bad the TV remote wasn't invented yet... 

Quote from: SAGG on September 25, 2016, 01:34:58 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 25, 2016, 12:22:09 AM
From the new lead story in the latest ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST (#272), entitled "Giving Up the Ghost", Veronica's great uncle Jacob Lodge is mentioned, and a wing of the Lodge mansion had been closed off because Jacob is said to have been the victim of a grisly murder that was never solved. In the story, Veronica has re-opened the disused wing of the mansion to host a Halloween haunted house for underprivileged kids, and a party for her friends.

Yeah that was a pretty good story, I thought. Are the Kennedy brothers still doing new stories in the digests, or is it just Parent now (or anybody else)?

I always enjoy the visual bits of business that the Kennedy brothers stick in their stories, especially ones like this where it's some excuse to get a big cast of regulars together.  You can always count on scenes where there's a whole pack of characters all running away (sort of a visual homage to both the Scooby-Doo and Josie cartoon chase scenes), and panels where characters go tumbling through space in slapstick physical action. They usually stick some small visual gags into the backgrounds too, even though it has nothing to do with the plot or the script.

Like in this story, Reggie is wearing a Zorro costume (specifically colored by Digikore to obscure any too-similar appearance, by using orange, red, and navy blue), Archie is costumed as Pureheart the Powerful, Veronica as Cleopatra, Dilton dressed as the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kevin in an Air Force officer,'s uniform,  Moose as a caveman, Midge as a cute pixie or fairy wearing a little pink dress, with pointy ears and insect wings, Jughead as some kind of Renaissance-era portly fellow (in various hues of green) -- perhaps Henry VIII, or was it Henry VI? In the opening splash panel, Ms. Grundy shows up in a witch's costume, and except for her white hair, she looks almost exactly like the classic version of Sabrina's Aunt Hilda! They always did have similar facial features, so that made me chuckle. All of the ACP artists seem to enjoy drawing Chunk (one of the New Kids), as he frequently shows up in crowd scenes in the background, and he's in half-a-dozen panels in this story, but doesn't seem to be wearing any sort of costume. I couldn't figure out what Betty and Cheryl (at least, I think it was supposed to be Cheryl, as she was the only one there with cherry-red hair) were supposed to be costumed as.

I think these are all inventory stories that are being used up.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 25, 2016, 05:36:51 AM

Quote from: SAGG on September 25, 2016, 01:34:58 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 25, 2016, 12:22:09 AM
From the new lead story in the latest ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST (#272), entitled "Giving Up the Ghost", Veronica's great uncle Jacob Lodge is mentioned, and a wing of the Lodge mansion had been closed off because Jacob is said to have been the victim of a grisly murder that was never solved. In the story, Veronica has re-opened the disused wing of the mansion to host a Halloween haunted house for underprivileged kids, and a party for her friends.

Yeah that was a pretty good story, I thought. Are the Kennedy brothers still doing new stories in the digests, or is it just Parent now (or anybody else)?

I always enjoy the visual bits of business that the Kennedy brothers stick in their stories, especially ones like this where it's some excuse to get a big cast of regulars together.  You can always count on scenes where there's a whole pack of characters all running away (sort of a visual homage to both the Scooby-Doo and Josie cartoon chase scenes), and panels where characters go tumbling through space in slapstick physical action. They usually stick some small visual gags into the backgrounds too, even though it has nothing to do with the plot or the script.

Like in this story, Reggie is wearing a Zorro costume (specifically colored by Digikore to obscure any too-similar appearance, by using orange, red, and navy blue), Archie is costumed as Pureheart the Powerful, Veronica as Cleopatra, Dilton dressed as the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kevin in an Air Force officer,'s uniform,  Moose as a caveman, Midge as a cute pixie or fairy wearing a little pink dress, with pointy ears and insect wings, Jughead as some kind of Renaissance-era portly fellow (in various hues of green) -- perhaps Henry VIII, or was it Henry VI? In the opening splash panel, Ms. Grundy shows up in a witch's costume, and except for her white hair, she looks almost exactly like the classic version of Sabrina's Aunt Hilda! They always did have similar facial features, so that made me chuckle. All of the ACP artists seem to enjoy drawing Chunk (one of the New Kids), as he frequently shows up in crowd scenes in the background, and he's in half-a-dozen panels in this story, but doesn't seem to be wearing any sort of costume. I couldn't figure out what Betty and Cheryl (at least, I think it was supposed to be Cheryl, as she was the only one there with cherry-red hair) were supposed to be costumed as.

I think these are all inventory stories that are being used up.

I think Betty is supposed to be a zombie and Cheryl a schoolgirl.

In the 60s-70s, in Animation, Sabrina had a near-identical cousin, with b;lack hair.
Frantic, reckless personality, name escapes me.

Quote from: irishmoxie on September 25, 2016, 09:57:30 AM
I think Betty is supposed to be a zombie and Cheryl a schoolgirl.

"Zombie" crossed my mind with Betty, but if that's what it's supposed to be it's a pretty odd zombie look. Since when do zombies have stitched-up scars on their faces and legs? Who stitches up a zombie? Other zombies? Certainly not a human... they're too busy running away. None of the other usual signifyers there like pale, blanched skin or dark circles under her eyes, blank, dead-eyed expression, etc. To be honest, if I had to come up with some phrase to describe Betty's look in this story, it would be more like "Frankenstein's teenage hillbilly daughter". I'm just going to give her a pass and say she was so busy helping everyone out by doing them all different favors that week that she didn't have the time to put any real effort into it, and just tossed together some random "halloween look" with whatever was on hand an hour or two before the party.

Okay, so Cheryl's a schoolgirl. What I mean is... she really, actually IS a schoolgirl, so other than just changing up her usual fashion and hairstyles, it hardly qualifies as a real costume. I mean, that's what made me wonder if it was really Cheryl or just some new redhead chickie that Reggie brought to the party, who just happens to dress that way anyway. Reggie's got his arm around her shoulder in one panel in a way I've never seen Reggie & Cheryl cozy up to each other before.* -- Or maybe the colorists at Digikore just chose red for her hair color, arbitrarily.

*[Except for that one story where Cheryl and Reggie pretended to date each other as part of a scam to separate Archie from Veronica, and have them each for themselves, respectively.]

Quote from: Captain Jetpack on September 25, 2016, 10:27:47 AM
In the 60s-70s, in Animation, Sabrina had a near-identical cousin, with b;lack hair.
Frantic, reckless personality, name escapes me.

Oh yeah. What a shameless ripoff of BEWITCHED that was. Maybe because Sabrina's appearance in ARCHIE'S MADHOUSE predated that show, ACP felt like it was fair game for them to copy Samantha's "identical-except-for-being-a-brunette" wildchild/partygirl cousin Serena (Serena/Sabrina... OW, that must have hurt).

I guess it's no big whoop, since by this time BEWITCHED was already copied once on that same gimmick, when I DREAM OF JEANNIE introduced Jeannie's evil twin (but brunette) sister, Jinni.