I believe it was from Archie #326 - Nov. 1983

Somewhere north of 100,000.   I have around 80,000 comics in my collection and have sold or borrowed from  the library at least 20,000 others.  It could be even higher than that, but I'd have to sit down and go through the Overstreet and make a list.

When I first started teaching, my school started at 8:30 and students got out at 3:00.  Band and drafting both ran during 0 hour from 7:25-8:25.  We added a bit more time over the years and eventually went from 8:15-3:30.  We then moved everything back 30 minutes and went from 7:45-2:30.  We added the extra hour to get out at 3:30 about 5 years ago as part of an attempt to increase test scores.


In my high school back in the 1980s (I graduated in 1988), school started at 7:50 and got out at 2:20.  I think classes were 55 minutes and we had 6 periods during the day.  We didn't have any days with shortened classes except for half days before some holidays. We did have three exam days at the end of each semester where we would have two 90 minute exams each day.  The school now runs from 7:15-2:15.  I think starting school that early is kind of ridiculous, but part of it is a nod to sporting events and travel times to get to away games I think.

I teach high school math in a suburb of Detroit and have been there since 1994.  We still have the state mandated fire and tornado drills.  We also have two lockdown drills per year.  I think this is also state mandated.  I don't think we've had any bomb threats in the past decade.  They were a bit of a fad after Columbine, but aren't an issue for us.

My students take notes in composition books, in spiral  notebooks or on looseleaf paper.  I haven't had any students take notes on computer.  I've never really used scantrons, but a few teachers still use them.  Mostly for final exams I think.  My students will hand write their math papers, but most type their English papers/essay.  Some teachers allow these papers to be submitted digitally through google docs or google classroom.   My pre-calculus class still uses textbooks, but our textbooks for the algebra and geometry classes are old and outdated due to common core so we don't use them anymore.  Most of the stuff we use is teacher created or worksheets.

My school starts at 7:45 and gets out at 3:30 which is a bit longer than many area schools.  We have 6 classes of about 68 minutes plus 30 minutes for lunch.  We have advisory on Wednesdays combined with a late start for staff meetings so classes are only 40 minutes long.

We have computer carts in each classroom and I will give practice quizzes using sites called kahoot and quizizz from time to time.   Standardized testing is done on the computers now, except for the SAT which is still paper and pencil.  Some teachers use the computers  more than others.   I write my notes on a smart board and can actually save the notes and email them to students who were absent.  The class also has a white board that I use for some things.  We stopped having chalk boards when our new building was built a decade ago.  I think most schools have switched over to white boards and/or smart boards.  I also have a document camera that I use.

Sure, I'd buy it.  I've got a complete set of Archie's Rival Reggie/Reggie and Me as well as Reggie's Wise-Guy Jokes.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 02, 2016, 08:51:00 PM
BLUE MONDAY VOL. 1: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT TP (Image, 2016) by Chynna Clugston Flores
- This was a pretty cool comic that I'd never read before, and it had a 'teen humor comic' vibe to it, but done in a modern style (even though the story is taking place in the early 1990s). There was even a reference on the last page (and in the introduction as well) to Archie Comics, although the style of art (somewhat manga-influenced) and writing here isn't particularly reminiscent of Archie Comics. It was funny and felt fresh and 'indie', though. It did make me wonder what an Archie reboot done by Chynna Clugston might have been like. They should have asked her, or maybe someone like Bryan Lee O'Malley (SCOTT PILGRIM) or even Scott McCloud (ZOT!, UNDERSTANDING COMICS).

I loved this series when it started from Oni back in 2000.  I plan to pick up this edition since it is in color now.  I think Absolute Beginners is due from Image in a couple of months.  Hopefully Chynna comes out with a new Blue Monday series soon since she never finished Thieves Like Us.   Another Scooter Girl series would be cool, too.

More Dark Horse comics today - Usagi Yojimbo, Groo, Mystery Girl, Midnight Society, Mirror's Edge, The Rook, Eve: Valkyrie, Tomb Raider and a bunch of others.

I recently finished Alliance of Equals by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, the latest book in their Liaden series.  It was pretty good.

I should finish Flinx in Flux by Alan Dean Foster tomorrow.  It is a book in the middle of his Pip & Flinx series.  It also happens to be the last one I read in the series back in the 1980s.  The next book didn't come out until 1995 and I never got back into the series until this year.

I'm also reading Crucible, a short story collection set in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar world.

I'm catching up on Dark Horse comics this week as well as a few Marvels

today included -

Abe Sapien, Baltimore, BPRD, Hellboy, Joe Golem, Lobster Johnson, Angel & Faith from Dark Horse

Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, Silk, Spider-Man 2099 and Spidey from Marvel

I just finished reading Archie #3-9 plus the most recent issue of Afterlife with Archie and the last two issues of Sabrina.  I thought all of them were pretty good.  I'm going to read the new Jughead series and B&V #1 next.

A friend of mine has quite a few Super Duck issues, but I've never had much interest in the title.

I have all of the Cosmo issues.  I only have two of the Ginger issues, though the rest are on my want list and I'll pick them up if the price and condition are good enough.  I have 18 of the 52 issues of Suzie and 59 of the 90 issues of Wilbur.  Most of the Wilburs that I need are from #58 and up.  I have 48 of the first 57 issues.  Just like Ginger, Suzie and Wilbur are ones that I would like to have and will buy if circumstances warrant, but they aren't as high a priority for me as the other Archie titles with the main cast or Harveys and some Dells.

I just got caught up with the last 9-10 months of Constantine, DC Comics Bombshells, Earth 2 Society and Harley Quinn over the last couple of days.  The Justice League  titles, Wonder Woman, Starfire and Legends of Tomorrow are next.

At the moment I'm reading Shattered Spear by Jack Campbell, Mutineer's Moon by David Weber (both in audiobook) and plan to start a print book as well.  I've finished 8 books so far this month, including The Martian, Dracula and others.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 21, 2016, 10:37:42 AM

Despite the seeming length of that list, it's shorter than I would have imagined it to be. It just gives some perspective on the relative proportions of the company's publishing output over 75 years, compared to other companies like DC and Marvel that have been around as long. I wouldn't doubt that even relatively younger publishers like Dark Horse, Image and IDW's output dwarfs it as well.


Still an impressive job of assembling all that, though. I think it's probably safe to declare you the winner by a wide margin.

I doubt if IDW has surpassed Archie yet.  There are around 9000 Archie comics including digests, but not counting Sonic, Mega Man and lots of their 1940s output iike Shield and so on.  I'd estimate their overall output in the 10000-11000 range.  Marvel and DC are probably in the 35000-45000 range.  Dark Horse has probably passed Archie since they've been around for 30 years themselves.  Image is a maybe.  Let's say they publish 40 issues per month.  That would equate  to around 500 comics per year or 12000 comics for their 24 years.  However, their output in the 1990s was a lot less than today so I don't think they've passed Archie yet, though it is only a matter of time.  Since Archie doesn't publish very many issues per year any more, their lead (if it remains) will diminish quickly.


update - I checked the Grand Comics Database before submitting this reply and they list the following output by publisher:

Archie - 10875
Charlton - 6495
Dark Horse - 9036
DC - 46196
Dell - 6885
IDW - 4664
Image - 9541
Marvel - 45838
Western (Gold Key/Whitman) - 6115

This is an old list and doesn't include comics from the last few years or other Archie titles like Fly, Jaguar, Shield, etc.

Digests - all

Archie and Friends  1 to 159      A Halloween Tale mini
    & Shield Giveaway    A Timely Tale mini    Monsterbash 2003
Archie and His Pals in the Peer Helping Program
Archie and Me  1 to 161   
Archie Annual  1 to 26   
Archie as Pureheart the Powerful  1 to 6 
Archie at Riverdale High  1 to 113
Archie Comics  6 - 10 to 634   
Archie Free Comic Book Day Edition  1 - 2
Archie Giant Series  1 to 35 - 136 to 251 - 452 to 632   
Archie Meets the Punisher  1
Archie Presents The Mighty Archie Art Players  FCBD  1
Archie's Christmas Stocking  1 to 7
Archie's Explorers of the Unknown  1 to 6
Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica  1 to 347  Annual  1 to 8   
Archie's Ham Radio Adventure
Archie's Joke Book  1 to 3 - 15 to 288 
Archie's Love Showdown Special  1
Archie's Mechanics  1 to 3
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals  1 to 224   
Archie's RC Racers  1 to 10
Archie's 65th Anniversary Bash 1 (FCBD 2006)
Archie's Spring Break  1 to 5
Archie's Summer Splash  FCBD  1
Archie's Super Teens  1 to 4
Archie's TV Laugh-Out  1 to 105 
Archie's Vacation Special  1 to 8
Archie's Weird Mysteries  1 to 34    minis Halloween 99 - Video Monsters
Archie 3000  1 to 16
Betty  1 to 195
Betty and Me  1 to 200
Betty and Veronica  1 to 260    FCBD 1 (2005)
Betty and Veronica Spectacular  1 to 90
Betty and Veronica Summer Fun  1 to 6
Betty's Diary  1 to 40
The Carneys  1
Cheryl Blossom  (1st)  1 to 3   (2nd)  1 to 3   Special  1 to 4
    Hollywood  1 to 3       regular   1 to 37
Chilling Adventures in Sorcery  1 to 11
Cosmo  1 to 6
Dilton's Strange Science  1 to 5
Everything's Archie  1 to 157   
Faculty Funnies  1 to 5
Ginger  7 - 8
Hot Dog  1 to 5
Jackpot  6 - 9
Josie 1 to 106  vl.2  1 - 2       
Jughead  1 to 352   Annual  1 to 8     vl.2  1 to 213      FCBD 2008 
Jughead as Captain Hero  1 to 7
Jughead's Baby Tales  1 - 2
Jughead's Diner  1 to 7
Jughead's Fantasy  1 to 3
Jughead's Folly  1
Jughead's Jokes  1 to 78 
Jughead's Soul Food
Jughead's Time Police  1 to 6
Kevin Keller  1 to 3
Laugh  20 to 59 - 61 to 63 - 65 to 133 - 135 to 400  vl.2  1 to 29   
Life With Archie  1 to 286 
Little Ambrose  1
Little Archie  1 to 180  FCBD 2007
Little Archie in Animal Land  1 - 17 to 19
Little Archie Mystery  1 - 2
Li'l Jinx  11 to 16 - 33 to 43 
Madhouse  1 to 130     Annual  1 to 12   
More Seymour  1
New Archies  1 to 22
Official Soupy Sales Comic  1
Pat the Brat/Pipsqueak   1 - 16 - 18 - 19 - 22 - 23 - 25 - 26 - 28 - 29 - 31 - 33 - 34 - 37 - 38
Pep  24 - 54 to 56 - 58 - 61 - 63 - 64 - 66 - 67 - 69 to 124 - 126 to 411   FCBD  2011
Reggie and Me  1 to 126 
Reggie's Revenge  1 to 3
Reggie's Wise Guy Jokes  1 to 55 
Riverdale High  1 to 8
Sabrina  1 to 77      vl.2   1     vl.3   1 to 32     vl.4  1 to 104
Sabrina's Halloween Spoooktacular  1 to 3
Seymour My Son  1
Spire -    Archie and Big Ethel
    Archie and Mr. Weatherbee
    Archie Gets a Job
    Archie's Car  1
    Archie's Circus
    Archie's Clean Slate  1
    Archie's Date Book
    Archie's Family Album
    Archie's Festival
    Archie's Love Scene
    Archie's One Way
    Archie's Parables  1
    Archie's Roller Coaster
    Archie's Something Else
    Archie's Sonshine
    Archie's Sports Scene
    Archie's World
    Christmas with Archie  1
Suzie    57 to 61 - 66 - 67 - 72 - 73 - 76 - 77 - 79 - 84 - 92 - 94 - 97 - 100
Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats  1 - 3 to 6
TMNT meet Archie
That Wilkin Boy  1 to 52
To Riverdale and Back Again
Triple Action Giant Comics  1
Veronica  1 to 210
Whiz Kids Community Action Program/Archie and the History of Electronics
Wilbur  2 to 6 - 9 - 11 - 13 to 23 - 25 to 28 - 30 to 32 - 35 to 40 - 42 to 44 - 46 to 50 - 52 to 57 - 59 - 61 - 65 - 70 - 71 - 75 - 77 - 87 to 90
World of Archie  1 to 22
Young Dr. Masters  1 - 2