Archie's Rival REGGIE #14 (August 1954)
REGGIE #15 (September 1963)
Dept. of What Were They Thinking?:
So the cover gag on REGGIE #14 didn't exactly attract droves of readers to purchase that issue... to the point where it was the last issue of REGGIE to be published in 1954, with the title going "on hiatus" (a polite way of spinning "CANCELLED") for 9 years... Only to have the title resurrected in 1963 using the very same cover gag AGAIN! I dunno... maybe it's like when a Monday newspaper comic strip redraws the last panel of the strip (complete with identical dialogue) that had appeared in the strip on the previous Saturday when the story was interrupted by a day, as by way of reminding readers:
"Last time (109 months ago), in REGGIE..." (?)
Maybe they just thought there was something wrong with the way it was drawn the first time??
REGGIE #15 (September 1963)
Dept. of What Were They Thinking?:
So the cover gag on REGGIE #14 didn't exactly attract droves of readers to purchase that issue... to the point where it was the last issue of REGGIE to be published in 1954, with the title going "on hiatus" (a polite way of spinning "CANCELLED") for 9 years... Only to have the title resurrected in 1963 using the very same cover gag AGAIN! I dunno... maybe it's like when a Monday newspaper comic strip redraws the last panel of the strip (complete with identical dialogue) that had appeared in the strip on the previous Saturday when the story was interrupted by a day, as by way of reminding readers:
"Last time (109 months ago), in REGGIE..." (?)
Maybe they just thought there was something wrong with the way it was drawn the first time??