Both of those offer five-to-ten pages of new content along with reprints from our 80 years of publishing. Our classic line includes our popular digest magazines and standard-sized single-issue comic books. We currently have two distinct “departments” in terms of publishing output. It's a small, but immensely dedicated team, so there's a ton of synergy across all titles.
Rotante: The folks behind Archie Comics really run the entire publishing business like a well-oiled machine.
How does each major department help tell the story of Archie comics? Soon the company would focus on Archie and other teen characters, even renaming the once-MLJ Comics to Archie Comics.Ĭhan: Let’s go behind-the-scenes. Believe it or not, that’s where old (actually, forever young) Archie comes in, as sort of the antithesis of the “super man” and a champion of the everyman. The early MLJ stuff was similar to the pulps in many ways: crime, western, adventure, some funny stuff, and eventually, superhero material as Superman exploded onto the scene. Then Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit, and John L Goldwater formed MLJ Comics (MLJ from the first initials of their first names). They had a lot of great writers who would go on to be household names, and the covers were very eye-catching. The company goes back even further to the days of pulp novels, which were cheap reading pretty shocking and sensational stories, crime, westerns, romance, and some sci-fi. Mike Pellerito: It's incredible to think about how long Archie has existed the first media outside of comics to feature the Archie characters was a radio show! Kinda’ like a scripted podcast for those not in the know, lol. His popularity continued to grow so much that, in 1946, the company changed its name to Archie Comic Publications, Inc. Archie was such a hit he went from being a feature to having his own title the following year. The popular Andy Hardy movies at the time made it cool for relatable, younger heroes to take center stage. It wasn't until Pep Comics #22 in 1941 that Archie made his first appearance. It began as MLJ Magazines in 1939, mostly focused on superhero comics. Rotante: Archie Comics has been around for over 80 years (we actually just celebrated Archie's landmark 80 th year with a number of retrospective collections that fans loved-especially 80 Years, 80 Stories and Archie: 80 Years of Christmas.) But the publishing side of things goes back a little further. After that, Archie's publisher ceased creating new strips and began reprinting older strips by Dan DeCarlo.Goldie Chan: How long has Archie Comics existed for? What was the original inspiration? The Archie comic strip was written by Craig Boldman, pencilled by Fernando Ruiz, lettered by Jon D'Agostino, and inked by Bob Smith until June 2011. He died of a heart attack on January 4, 1975, while cross-country skiing in Meredith.
In 1946, he began drawing Archie daily and Sunday strips for 700 newspapers. Archie is currently distributed by the Creators Syndicate.īob Montana drew the first issue of the Archie comic book (November 1942). Launched by McClure Newspaper Syndicate on February 4, 1946, it features the misadventures of Archie Andrews and his pals. 1987)Īrchie is a long-running American comic strip based on the line of the popular Archie Comics.
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