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  • johnnystorm
    Hot Child in the City
    • Jul 3, 2008
    • 4293

    IDW to collect Classic Archie

    Is Archie just going to farm out their entire catalog to other publishers?

    No, seriously, this may be a good thing. Archie has done a bunch of excellent lower-priced trades (in particular I recommend looking up the best of The Fly, the Christmas stories, & the Josie & the Pussycats volumes). But they don't seem to get noticed anywhere and I guess a lot of stores don't really stock them. You can find them pretty cheap on Ebay, I got a few where the shipping was more than I bid for the book...and still alltogether only about 1/2 of cover!

    A nice Archive edition showcasing Dan DeCarlo would be great. I'd like to see some obscure stuff get collected such as Katy Keene and Cosmo the Merry Martian (and if you've never read Cosmo, you are missing out...track a copy down -there were six issues- and it is not the "Casper-like" series it sounds like, it's one of those offbeat gems that are out there waiting to be found!) I wonder if the superhero stuff may show up now in a DC Archive now that DC is doing the Red Circle heroes. I would buy a SHIELD or PEP comics Archive anyday!

    I like the IDW collections better than their regular comics, mostly because a big chunk of the issues are ads for IDW zombie comics. Wonder when they'll do Zombie Archie? You would think Jughead and his appetite would be a natural for such a series!


    Newsarama.com : IDW to Publish Early Archie Strips
    Last edited by johnnystorm; Jul 7, '09, 7:46 AM.
  • samurainoir
    Eloquent Member
    • Dec 26, 2006
    • 18758

    #2
    Archie's bread and butter has always been an ever shifting tween audience via the grocery stores, and other than the Punisher crossover, they haven't ever really courted much of the direct market Comic Shop business have they?

    I'm sure IDW is more equipped to court the nostalgic adult collector than Archie's own internal infra-structire, plus they have access to the bookstore market already with consistent quality product (in terms of paper stock, presentation and reproduction).

    So IDW does the heavy lifting on this, Archie collects their licensing fees and royalties. Seems like a win-win to me.


    It does look like Archie is still having some success reinventing themselves away from the DeCarlo design sheets, I still see them pumping out the "New Look" Archie.
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    • ctc
      Fear the monkeybat!
      • Aug 16, 2001
      • 11183

      #3
      >I still see them pumping out the "New Look" Archie.

      They've been kinda sneaky about it, since the "new look" stories are the first one in the book. The rest are reprints. It kinda works since Archie has a bout six distinct styles going in any given book. One more isn't too jarring.

      >I'm sure IDW is more equipped to court the nostalgic adult collector than Archie's own internal infra-structire, plus they have access to the bookstore market already with consistent quality product

      You can order the GN and back issues right from the company, so I suspect a lot of readers do just that. But IDW can probably get them more exposure in bookstores and the like; although I don't know if it'd really matter since most of the fans are probably just mail ordering them. Would the bookstore crowd be interested? The comic shop crowd isn't; but that's 'cos to them comic book=superhero.

      >Is Archie just going to farm out their entire catalog to other publishers?

      I don't think so, since so much of their live product is reprints.

      Don C.

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      • saildog
        Permanent Member
        • Apr 9, 2006
        • 2270

        #4
        I still get a kick out of seeing the Archie Digests in the local Grocery and Wal-Mart.

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