Christmas in Riverdale

Christmas with Archie and the gang. Here's some scans of original art for Archie comics covers.




Archie Giant Series #568 Betty and Veronica Christmas Spectacular, January 1987. Art by Dan DeCarlo.




"Christmas Glee," 1992.




Archie's Christmas Stocking #1, 1993. Art by Dan DeCarlo.




Archie Giant Series Magazine #547 Betty and Veronica Christmas Spectacular, January 1985. Art by Dan DeCarlo.

Comic Book Christmas

Archie's Christmas Stocking #3, December 1956.




Walt Scott's Christmas Stories, Four Color #1062, December 1959.




Walt Disney's Christmas Parade, Dell Giant #26, December 1959.




Black Cat Comics #27, February 1951. Cover art by Lee Elias.




Bugs Bunny's Merry Christmas, Four Color #1064, December 1959.

Archie's Girls

Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #94, October 1963.




Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #105, September 1964.




Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #106, October 1964.




Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #124, April 1966.




Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #132, December 1966.




Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #133, January 1967.

Christmas in Riverdale

Christmas with Archie and the gang. Here's some scans of original art for Archie comics covers.




Archie Giant Series #568 Betty and Veronica Christmas Spectacular, January 1987. Art by Dan DeCarlo.




"Christmas Glee," 1992.




Archie's Christmas Stocking #1, 1993. Art by Dan DeCarlo.




Archie Giant Series Magazine #547 Betty and Veronica Christmas Spectacular, January 1985. Art by Dan DeCarlo.

Archie's Girls

Betty and Veronica

Halloween Comix!

Famous Funnies #75, October 1940.




Famous Funnies #63, October 1939.




Archie Comics #5, November 1943.




Comic Cavalcade #12, Fall 1945.




Flash Comics #78, December 1946.

Goodbye Summer

Since Labor Day is the traditional end of summer in the U.S., that's as good an excuse as any to post some pictures of girls in bathing suits. Starting with a couple shots of Bettie Page:










Thrilling Comics #61, August 1947. Cover art by Alex Schomburg.




Airbrushed pinup photo, no date.





Original art for Archie Annual Digest #63, 1993. Art by Stan Goldberg and Mike Esposito.

True Confession: Betty and Veronica

I have a confession to make. I bought the original art to an Archie Comics' story.

I used to collect original art, then I got interested in other things and it got too expensive. Now that I've been looking around at some lately, it's gotten really expensive. Me and a friend were lamenting back in the 1980's we would see original art for sale for $10 a page and wouldn't get it. Now we look back and think "Hell, a Superman page for $10, who cares if the art isn't that great, it's Superman! Only $10! Why didn't we grab it?"

So, I saw this Betty & Veronica story for $48 (less than $10 a page!) and thought what the hell. I mostly associate Archie comics with going to the dentist when I was a kid. This one is from a bit later, 1992. It has all the classic elements of an Archie, Betty and Veronica story. Hell, it's even called "The Triangle." I like the panel of Veronica all pissed off at the bottom of page 2, and page 4 is pretty fun with the phone action and the pictures of Archie by the table. All these stories are the same, and I think they really are written by a computer.

For your reading pleasure: "The Triangle," pencils by Dan Parent, inks by Rudy Lapick. From a 1992 issue of Betty and Veronica.