Hi Everyone- As well as a daily newspaper strip Archie also had a full page Sunday strip. If you want to read a few hundred of them - enjoy! Open a file. Click on the first one at the top. When you're done reading it hit the arrow on the right side of the picture to move on to the next one. Note: The one's from the 60's have that great Bob Montana artwork.

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Here is the sites main page (a to z) to read Lots of other classic newspaper strips as well. Alley Oop, Out Our Way, Dick Tracy, etc.

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Just was wondering if anyone else picked up the new Archie #1/75th anniversary digest? In Canada it has a cover price of $8.99, but WalMart has a great deal where you can pick up any  3 digests, regardless of price, for 10 bucks. The second story in the digest is a Frank Doyle gem "Once Upon A Tune". Very 'Mad Magazine'/'MadHouse' kind of story. Really miss that kind of thing with Archie. Starting to look like a good purchase of reprints for a year (12 issues). Would love to see them do this with other Archie books. Just a year long-12 issue digest series. With 'Laugh', 'Pep', to choose from. Wouldn't be hard. Reprints of 'Madhouse' wouldn't hurt either. Hard to say if they'd be popular today. The digest did reprint a 'Josie' story ('Headcount') that was just reprinted recently. No complaints, great story. Anyone else enjoy the issue?

Everyone has a secondary character that they like. From Bingo Wilkin to Jinx, but here's my question:
Did the Madhouse Glads/Ma-ads get cheated out of their own comic because of bad timing?
In the first run of Madhouse (#01 to 65) the comic was a very 'Mad Magazine' style of comic, with their very own 'Alfred E. Newman' character 'Clyde Diddit'. But starting in issue #66 it was all about a rock band called 'The Madhouse Ma-ads' with their very own groupie Fran. However. . . there was a very famous cartoon right about that time (1969 to 1970) call 'Scooby Doo, Where are you?'. Now we all know Archie comics. If something is a trend, they follow. So beginning in issue #73 the 'Madhouse Ma-ads' became the 'Madhouse Glads' & it was downhill from there. Starting in issue #82 (Feb 1972) suddenly this rock band was traveling around solving mysteries. Hum? Where have I seen that before? And then by issue #94 it was all over. Here's another problem. In 1969 a made-up band called 'The Archies' had a Billboard #1 song called 'Sugar, sugar'. Which has probably never gone off the oldies stations. So in theory you have Archie comics with a rock band called 'The Archies' and a rock band called 'The Madhouse Glads'. Let's also not forget that 'That Wilkin Boy' also had a rock band. For the brief time they were around I really liked the Madhouse Mads/Glads, but as you can see - they were doomed by timing. I've always thought that these characters could make a comeback in either of the Archie styles, old/new, as a traveling 60's tribute band. It's certainly been mention in this forum before. Secondary characters are very under used by Archie Comics.