Twelve-Cent Archie : : New edition with full color illustrations / / Bart Beaty.

For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by scholars-until now. Twelve-Cent Archie is n...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Comics Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.) :; 48 color illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TWELVE-CENT ARCHIE
  • The Twelve-Cent Archie
  • How to Write (Archie) Comics
  • Story Length
  • The Archie Hierarchy
  • Archie Andrews
  • How Well Does Archie Speak French?
  • Bowling
  • Harry Lucey's Rhythm
  • Veronica Lodge
  • Riverdale, USA
  • The Daily Strip
  • Footnote
  • "Why Is It Always between Archie and Reggie?"
  • Archie's Jalopy
  • It's as Easy as A-B-V
  • United Girls Against Jughead
  • Archie Giant Series
  • Invisible Paint
  • Archie Comics versus Art
  • Betty Cooper
  • Riverdale's Racial Problem
  • Fashion
  • Betty's Ponytail
  • Self-Plagiarism
  • Archie's Sweater Vest
  • Jughead Jones
  • Beatniks, Hippies, and Other Undesirables
  • Dilton Doily
  • Moose
  • Reggie Mantle
  • Jealousy
  • "Are You Familiar with Shakespeare, My Young Ignoramus?"
  • "I Never Squeaked a Pip, Either!"
  • Jughead's Hat
  • Fantastic Elements
  • Archie's Joke Book
  • Often Imitated, Never Duplicated
  • The Historical Archie
  • Mutually Assured Destruction
  • Betty = Veronica
  • Head over Heels
  • Mr. Weatherbee
  • Caveman Archie
  • Life with Archie
  • What Is the Zip Code for Riverdale?
  • Cover Art
  • Fairy Godmothers
  • Dan DeCarlo's Foreground Portraits
  • Archie as an Adventure Comic
  • Text Pieces
  • Previously on Archie
  • Notes for the Norton Anthology
  • Archie: Arch: Archiekins
  • Eep! Omigosh! And Other Unusual Contributions to the Language of Comics
  • Archie's Black Book
  • Laugh and Pep: The Residual Titles
  • Pureheart the Powerful
  • Errors
  • Midge
  • You Can Take the Boy Out of Riverdale...
  • Archie Club News
  • Veronica's Mother
  • Mr. Lodge
  • Betty's Parents
  • Jingles
  • Li'l Jinx
  • Archie's Gender Politics
  • Should Archie Marry Betty or Veronica?
  • Big Ethel
  • The Mayor of Riverdale
  • Worst. Archie. Story. Ever.
  • Archie the Klutz
  • Celebrity Culture
  • Jughead's Dipsy Doodles
  • Imitation Is the Lowest Form of Flattery
  • Surf and Ski
  • Samm Schwartz's Art
  • Self-Referential Metafictions
  • Riverdale High
  • Who Cut Veronica's Hair?
  • Little Archie
  • Credits
  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • Teenese
  • The Archies
  • Pop Tate's Choklit Shoppe
  • Unusual Panels
  • Smithers
  • The Archie Archive
  • Fads and Fashions
  • Borderless Panels
  • A Comic About Nothing
  • Fred (and Mary) Andrews
  • The Banjo in Archie Comics
  • Wordless Stories, or Nearly So
  • Hot Dog
  • Dan DeCarlo's Split-Horizon Girl
  • The (Nearly) Perfect Archie Story
  • The Myth of Archie
  • Archie and Me
  • Index