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Quote from: Asdfghjkl on January 07, 2017, 12:17:04 PM
Does anyone know of any B&V stories where the girls encounter magic?  Like witches, magical artifacts, or warlocks?  I know that there's one where Veronica finds a wishing pendant and where the girls find a genie, but I'm looking for something new (or old, I guess) to read.   The only stories that I seem to find are ones involving Sabrina and no offense to my favorite teenage witch, I kinda want something where B&V are in the spotlight.  Thanks in advance


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This may sound strange, but a Column I enjoy called "Ask Chris" talks about a Frank Doyle (The king of Archie Writers!) story where Betty and Veronica meet...Satan.

Yep. I meant to down--er, upload it in my gallery, but I haven't got around to doing it yet because I have to hunt it down. The dude's actual name is Mr. Inferno... 

Quote from: Asdfghjkl on January 07, 2017, 12:17:04 PM
Does anyone know of any B&V stories where the girls encounter magic?  Like witches, magical artifacts, or warlocks?  I know that there's one where Veronica finds a wishing pendant and where the girls find a genie, but I'm looking for something new (or old, I guess) to read.   The only stories that I seem to find are ones involving Sabrina and no offense to my favorite teenage witch, I kinda want something where B&V are in the spotlight.  Thanks in advance


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I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but in my second album, there's a story on page 12 called "The Magic Word". Betty and Ronica discuss if Riverdale High was a magical school, like Hogwarts was for Harry Potter. Sabrina makes a cameo at the end without both girls knowing it...

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on January 07, 2017, 02:27:14 PM

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Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on January 07, 2017, 10:39:08 AM
Finished reading Donald Duck: Sheriff of Bullet Valley by Carl Barks.

"Carl Barks was to Donald Duck what Bob Bolling was to Little Archie." I recall reading that somewhere.... 

That doesn't seem quite right to me. Carl Barks was brilliant, no question. But he didn't create Donald Duck or his nephews. He did create a lot of other important characters like Uncle Scrooge, Gyro Gearloose, and Gladstone Gander, to name just three of the most important ones.

I may be mistaken about this, but didn't Bob Bolling create Little Archie? Granted, I guess it would be more analogous to creating Superboy where Superman already existed beforehand, but to put it more accurately I guess, Little Archie would not exist if it were not for Bob Bolling. Or if he did somehow, eventually, come into existence, then he would have turned out to be a significantly different character under a different creator's hands. However, Donald Duck would still exist if Carl Barks had never written or drawn him, because he already existed before Carl Barks ever worked on his stories, and he'd still be essentially the same Donald... just with far less good stories about him.

So it would probably be more accurate to say "Bob Bolling was to Little Archie what Carl Barks was to Uncle Scrooge", since Uncle Scooge can be considered a derivative character of Donald Duck. Scrooge McDuck could not have come into existence if Donald Duck had not existed first, which is the same situation as with Bob Bolling's Little Archie and Bob Montana's Archie.

Okay, I was wrong after I did a little checking. I only thought I heard that saying. This may have been the article I got it from when I compared Barks and Bolling on their works. Plucked from Bolling's entry on Wikipedia:


"Bolling's work on Little Archie has earned him comparisons to Carl Barks for the wide emotional and stylistic range of his work. Scott Shaw! has written that "Bolling's clever, sometimes surprisingly emotional writing, his imaginative storytelling and staging and his dramatic, Will Eisner-ish inking" make Little Archie "add up to a comic book series unlike any other ever published by Archie Comics.""


My bad... 

Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on January 07, 2017, 10:39:08 AM
Finished reading Donald Duck: Sheriff of Bullet Valley by Carl Barks.

"Carl Barks was to Donald Duck what Bob Bolling was to Little Archie." I recall reading that somewhere.... 

Outside of Archie, I've caught up a bit on Superman, which is quite interesting. He's the Superman of the previous incarnation, not the current one who just died recently. He's also older, married to Lois, and has a kid, who's developing superpowers.


And then, there's Harley Quinn. Man, I kind of like her character, and what they're doing with her. I sort of like her in her anti-hero role, and not as a mere sexy psycho sidekick girlfriend to the Joker. There's more to her than meets the eye, and she's quite the looker, too... 

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on January 07, 2017, 04:57:27 AM

Quote from: SAGG on January 07, 2017, 04:20:59 AM
I guess this is why I'm just going through digitals to buy now, because I can download them immediately. I rarely buy a ACP book anymore hands-on, with the exception of the new Archie one, just to see what it was about. I think I'd blame ACP more than anything else, since they're the ones in charge of producing the product for the distributors. To sum up, ACP seems to be having trouble with getting out the hands-on books, as opposed to getting them out digitally....

Well, this is one of the unknowns. I don't know if ACP slashing its in-house staff means that somehow a service called "Subscription Genius" is being subcontracted to track, bag, label and deliver subscribers copies to the USPS, or if "Subscription Genius" is just a piece of software that ACP leases to help (what's left of) their in-house staff to accomplish the task (but it's on them to actually get subscribers' copies bagged, labeled and out the door to the USPS).

I doubt very much if this is influencing me in any way to go the digital route, though. I have bigger problems with that (a whole other discussion which you may or may not recall) than with the mail subscriptions. No, it seems if anything this would be prodding me more in the direction of buying back issues of print titles, thus cutting ACP out of the loop of making any profit off me altogether.

I think either way we can agree ACP just doesn't have its act together. I hate to say it, but they're really slipping up. And the slope is getting steeper.... 

Quote from: spatzi on January 06, 2017, 09:25:13 PM
Hello, I go by the name Spatzi. I am in my first year of university. My long-time friend got me into Archie Comics about 6 months ago. And around the time, I started digging around old forums posts before the site went down but I'm glad its back up.


And the recent Riverdale stuff has reinvigorated me and I just wanted to see what the AC fandom was like in a sense.


There are so few active communities for it. I only now connected with a bunch of people my age who like it too! Yet I still I feel like I missed out a lot on it since I barely remember seeing any AC when I was kid. But I hope you'll see me well. Thanks for keeping such an active forum. 

Welcome!  Be sure to visit my HUGE gallery (and growing) to re-familiarize yourself with all things Archie!

I guess this is why I'm just going through digitals to buy now, because I can download them immediately. I rarely buy a ACP book anymore hands-on, with the exception of the new Archie one, just to see what it was about. I think I'd blame ACP more than anything else, since they're the ones in charge of producing the product for the distributors. To sum up, ACP seems to be having trouble with getting out the hands-on books, as opposed to getting them out digitally....

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on January 01, 2017, 05:53:58 AM

Quote from: SAGG on January 01, 2017, 02:33:50 AM
Thanks to DR, I let loose in a HUGE way! In my second album, there's plenty to take in, the same for my first album! 

Goes a lot faster now, don't it? 

Yes stir! 

Thanks to DR, I let loose in a HUGE way! In my second album, there's plenty to take in, the same for my first album! 

Nice story, PTF. Typical Archie! 

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 31, 2016, 12:10:24 AM
JUGHEAD & ARCHIE WINTER ANNUAL #24 has the 5-page Jughead story "Resolution Solution" that you can add to your list of New Year's stories. I'd read that story somewhere before.

Juggie's New Year's resolution is to eat healthy, suggested by his parents in order to set a good example for Jellybean. With Jughead, it's all one way or another, so he stops eating all junk food, red meat, etc. and goes vegan, but he begins feeling tired, and then sick. Finally, his parents take him to the doctor, who forces him ("doctor's orders") to start eating burgers and fries again, and Jughead reverts to his old ways (and his old health), but not before Pop Tate is stuck with 50 crates of spinach.

Since I've been reading a few older Jughead's Double Digests lately, it seemed like every other story in the new Winter Annual was one that I'd read just recently.

Yeah, I remember the "Resolution Solution" story...