One thousand pages of bad jokes, weak puns, and silly "plots" yet these little comics continue to be a pop phenomenon. Maybe it's the innocent naïveté or the bright primary colours or perhaps it's the fact that even as the technology around them changes (they have computers!) the gang just never grows old.

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NurseBob | Jan 5, 2024 |

World of Archie Vol. 1 (Archie Comics Presents) door Archie Superstars

It's surprising that this ancient comic strip is still being published, 80 years after its debut. This particular collection is of comics first published in the early 1990s, and was reprinted in 2019. The cover reflects a traditional theme: as an ordinary goofy teenage male, Archie has two gorgeous teenage "girls" (Betty and Veronica) passionately interested in him, though in a G-rated manner. That the females are built like supermodels (with spectacular, Barbie- doll proportions) may not have occurred to readers in the 1950s and '60s, but it's hard to believe that modern readers don't notice. At least the storylines in this collection extend beyond the boy- girl stuff of the comic's distant forerunners.

Despite a lifetime appreciation of comic strips, I experienced no enjoyment from this collection. I found the story lines juvenile, contrived, trivial, boring, and dumb.… (meer)

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danielx | Jul 2, 2022 |

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A blast from past reading ,quite noisteligic to read bringing back the memories of the 60s times reading Archie back then

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