Archie Dies On Wednesday

10 years ago

I used to read Archie when I was a young teen. Haven't read it since then, but it sounds like I wouldn't like it anymore anyway. Back then, comics were escapism. They weren't pushing political agendas, they were purely for entertainment purposes, at least the ones I read were designed that way. I don't know when they strayed from that formula, but I'm glad I stopped reading them before it happened.

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Paul Myers

10 years ago

Dennis,

You didn't read a lot of Marvel back in the day, eh?

I'm not sure if it was Lee, Ditko, Kirby, or some combination of the 3, but they had a big social consciousness thing going in the early 60s. Women (eg, Jean Grey), minorities (eg, the Black Panther), the "handicapped" (eg, Daredevil), etc.

The CCA tried to do away with a lot of 4-color activism, but they failed rather miserably.

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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Dennis,

You didn't read a lot of Marvel back in the day, eh?

I'm not sure if it was Lee, Ditko, Kirby, or some combination of the 3, but they had a big social consciousness thing going in the early 60s. Women (eg, Jean Grey), minorities (eg, the Black Panther), the "handicapped" (eg, Daredevil), etc.

The CCA tried to do away with a lot of 4-color activism, but they failed rather miserably.

Paul

I went for the dumb stuff . . . which may partially explain my sense of humor today. Archie, Sad Sack, Casper, Hot Stuff, Little Lulu, Donald Duck, Bugs, Heckle and Jeckle, Woody Woodpecker, Spooky and others like those.

I read an occasional Superman or Batman comic if there wasn't anything else new, but I mostly enjoyed the more cartoonish stuff.

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

I went for the dumb stuff . . . which may partially explain my sense of humor today. Archie, Sad Sack, Casper, Hot Stuff, Little Lulu, Donald Duck, Bugs, Heckle and Jeckle, Woody Woodpecker, Spooky and others like those.

I read an occasional Superman or Batman comic if there wasn't anything else new, but I mostly enjoyed the more cartoonish stuff.

You didn't read Richie Rich?

I did, but only because it was my brother's favorite and well, it was there, lol!

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Steven Wagenheim 10 years ago

Just to clarify something. This "death" is taking place in a version of Archie that's his older self. The teen comic years will still be produced. We're just going to know how his life ultimately ends up, which might make reading the stuff we're used to reading come across a little differently.

Kind of like how we view "The Wizard Of Oz" since "Wicked."
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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

I went for the dumb stuff . . . which may partially explain my sense of humor today. Archie, Sad Sack, Casper, Hot Stuff, Little Lulu, Donald Duck, Bugs, Heckle and Jeckle, Woody Woodpecker, Spooky and others like those.

I read an occasional Superman or Batman comic if there wasn't anything else new, but I mostly enjoyed the more cartoonish stuff.

Strange. I never bought those "Funny books" I always bought the superhero ones.

But I remember reading them when friends had them, and I loved reading Richie Rich, Casper Donald Duck,...and the rest Disney put out some great books in the 50's & 60's about Spin & Marty, The Hardy Boys, The Rifleman and others. I loved reading those stories.

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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

You didn't read Richie Rich?

Yeah, I read Richie Rich, too, and lots of others. I just didn't name them all.

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

Strange. I never bought those "Funny books" I always bought the superhero ones.

I didn't have to buy any comics. My mom worked at a little mom and pop grocery store, and I sort of worked there. I say "sort of" because I wasn't officially on the payroll, but I made signs for them, took inventory, stocked shelves, ran the cash register and so on for a few hours a week.

My "pay" was they let me take home any comic books and magazines I wanted as long as I returned them in a few days; plus I got all the bulk candy I could eat. Now and then they'd throw some money at me, and some customers even gave me tips when I worked the cash register or carried their groceries out to their car. Times were sure different back then.

It was pretty cheap labor for them and I was happy with it, so it worked out well.

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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Yeah, I read Richie Rich, too, and lots of others. I just didn't name them all.

I didn't have to buy any comics. My mom worked at a little mom and pop grocery store, and I sort of worked there. I say "sort of" because I wasn't officially on the payroll, but I made signs for them, took inventory, stocked shelves, ran the cash register and so on for a few hours a week.

My "pay" was they let me take home any comic books and magazines I wanted as long as I returned them in a few days; plus I got all the bulk candy I could eat. Now and then they'd throw some money at me, and some customers even gave me tips when I worked the cash register or carried their groceries out to their car. Times were sure different back then.

It was pretty cheap labor for them and I was happy with it, so it worked out well.

Honestly, that sounds like kid heaven.

And let's come clean...how many of us, as kids actually thought that rich people kept huge rooms of money, and they would jump into their money and swim in it?

I did, until I was 45 years old.

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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

Honestly, that sounds like kid heaven.

Yeah, like I said, I was happy with it. Not only for the "pay" I got, but for a kid, it felt pretty grown up to run the cash register and take money from adults. I think I started working there when I was 11 years old, maybe 12.

And let's come clean...how many of us, as kids actually thought that rich people kept huge rooms of money, and they would jump into their money and swim in it?

I did, until I was 45 years old.

You . . . you mean . . . it's not true?

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Yeah, like I said, I was happy with it. Not only for the "pay" I got, but for a kid, it felt pretty grown up to run the cash register and take money from adults. I think I started working there when I was 11 years old, maybe 12.

You . . . you mean . . . it's not true?

Don't cry, Dennis!!

It's true, it is true I tell you!

I went to Uncle Scrooge's house with Huey, Dewey and Louie and we did swim in a gargantuan mountain of money!

It's even on film in Duck Tales, except you can't see me in it because as fate would have it, the only day of my life that I was ever camera shy, was that day and I wouldn't come out of the money mountain.

But it is true. Serious.

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

I used to read Archie when I was a young teen. Haven't read it since then, but it sounds like I wouldn't like it anymore anyway. Back then, comics were escapism. They weren't pushing political agendas, they were purely for entertainment purposes, at least the ones I read were designed that way. I don't know when they strayed from that formula, but I'm glad I stopped reading them before it happened.

I haven't read or watched them either, since I was a kid and it was nothing but innocent fun.

But I don't feel too bad, because we still have this.

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Clyde Dennis

10 years ago

Read an article on this... crazy stuff! R.I.P. Archie.

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Paul Myers

10 years ago

Dennis,

Strange you mention Sad Sack. I was just thinking about that one the other day. An older friend of mine referred to someone as a "sad sack," and it brought back the comic, rather than the intended meaning.

Odd, how memories work...

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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

I haven't read or watched them either, since I was a kid and it was nothing but innocent fun.

But I don't feel too bad, because we still have this. <snip>

Innocent fun was the way I remember the comics of my youth. I really dislike so many things being forever changed by political agendas.

I never got into the animated Archie cartoons though. The characters had their own "voices" when I read the comic books, and it wasn't like the voice given to them in animations. Jump the shark moment, right there.

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Dennis,

Strange you mention Sad Sack. I was just thinking about that one the other day. An older friend of mine referred to someone as a "sad sack," and it brought back the comic, rather than the intended meaning.

Odd, how memories work...

Paul

That's where my mind would have gone first at the mention of "sad sack" as well. Kind of like when I saw the title of this thread the first "Archie" I thought of was Archie Bunker.

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HeySal

10 years ago

I remember Archie - but it comes as quite a surprise to me the comic is still around in any form. Guess that's soon to change.

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Dan Riffle

10 years ago

First Archie dies and now Thor is a woman:

https://movies.yahoo.com/news/marvel...152500532.html

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Rick Rodd

10 years ago

Would Archie go to heaven? Probably not. He has no soul. But this would be an interesting storyline as he comes back from the dead thanks to Jean Grey.

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Kurt

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

I went for the dumb stuff . . . which may partially explain my sense of humor today. Archie, Sad Sack, Casper, Hot Stuff, Little Lulu, Donald Duck, Bugs, Heckle and Jeckle, Woody Woodpecker, Spooky and others like those.

I read an occasional Superman or Batman comic if there wasn't anything else new, but I mostly enjoyed the more cartoonish stuff.

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Dennis,

Strange you mention Sad Sack. I was just thinking about that one the other day. An older friend of mine referred to someone as a "sad sack," and it brought back the comic, rather than the intended meaning.

Odd, how memories work...

Paul

Coincidently, a few days ago I was checking out some old Elvis videos and was reminded that "Sad Sack was sitting on a block of stone"....

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video) -...

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