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"Chick?"



This year (December, to be precise) marks eighty years since the first appearance of America's Typical Teenager, Archibald "Archie" Andrews. Whether as a star athlete (or hopeless klutz), a ladies' man (or perpetual failure in love), Riverdale High's/the entire town's reliable go-to problem solver (or bane of Hiram Lodge's and Waldo Weatherbee's existence), pure-hearted superhero (or petty mob enforcer... Riverdale Season 2, I'm looking at you)... Archie's been many things over the years, yet still one of the most instantly recognizable characters in American pop culture. Let's celebrate him and his world with some representative posts from across the decades!

( 'He hates Archie, so if you value life and limb, call him Chick.' For all of one story )

Believe it or not, there was a time when the Archie daily newspaper strip was actually funny. For instance, there was the storyline in which the title character became principal of Riverdale High for a day.

( Lay your peepers on this, cats )