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Archie & Friends All-Stars #10
Archie & Friends: Night at the Comic Shop
It's high-energy fun when worlds collide! Archie and the gang come face to face with a slew of classic comic book characters when a strange meteor lands in the local comic shop.
Super Duck, Sam Hill, Pat the Brat, Li'l Jinx, Young Dr. Masters and over 30 others come to life and Archie, Jughead, Chuck, Betty & Veronica scramble to return the classic comic characters to the comic pages before things really get out of hand! It's up to Archie to fix the problem and save the universe!
This volume includes a bonus 30 pages of colorful and entertaining bios on the dozens of classic Archie/MLJ comics characters appearing in Night at the Comic Shop.
Super Duck, Sam Hill, Pat the Brat, Li'l Jinx, Young Dr. Masters and over 30 others come to life and Archie, Jughead, Chuck, Betty & Veronica scramble to return the classic comic characters to the comic pages before things really get out of hand! It's up to Archie to fix the problem and save the universe!
This volume includes a bonus 30 pages of colorful and entertaining bios on the dozens of classic Archie/MLJ comics characters appearing in Night at the Comic Shop.
128 pages, Paperback
First published May 24, 2011
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About the author
Fernando Ruiz
275 books1 followerFernando Ruiz graduated with a BFA from Caldwell College, then attended The Kubert School in 1991. In addition to his work for Archie Comics, Fernando has also worked as a commercial illustrator with experience in toy design, book illustration, story boarding and much more. Fernando currently continues to write and draw for Archie Comics as well as teach at The Kubert School.
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August 19, 2018
This is a tough one.
Obscure characters. Check
Who's Who Guide to Obscure Characters. Check
Classic Archie Art. Check
Trademark Archie Humor. Check
Plot.....
I really want to give this a 5, but it just falls short. There is a lot to love here, but ultimately these forgotten MLJ characters are more highlighted than showcased.
That said, I still kind of loved it.
Obscure characters. Check
Who's Who Guide to Obscure Characters. Check
Classic Archie Art. Check
Trademark Archie Humor. Check
Plot.....
I really want to give this a 5, but it just falls short. There is a lot to love here, but ultimately these forgotten MLJ characters are more highlighted than showcased.
That said, I still kind of loved it.
January 16, 2025
Basically an excuse for Archie to roll out its back catalog of obscure, forgotten comic characters. It turns the whole book into “wow, look, it’s that character!” but you never really learn much about the characters, likely because they were obscure and forgotten. If they had chosen just a few instead of shoving as many as possible in, this could’ve been a more interesting showcase.
November 10, 2015
Just as the cover illustration suggests, this volume is a light cartoon romp of a story. It's full of fun in-jokes and the kinds of character interactions that can only happen in comic books. Of course, even a scant knowledge of certain legalities will tell one that the real purpose of the story is to ensure that Archie Comics keeps hold of its copyrights.
The implied statement of the story (outright stated in the cases of some characters) is that this is not the last we've seen of these funny animals, serious adventurers, and redundant teenagers.
Following the story are helpful profile pages that give us a little more background on these characters. While Archie Comics has brought some of them back for the modern era, it hasn't found a place for all of them yet, even some it promises to here. Archie is a hopping place today, and I can only hope that we will yet see new tales of Cosmo, Gloomy Gus, and Super Duck.
The implied statement of the story (outright stated in the cases of some characters) is that this is not the last we've seen of these funny animals, serious adventurers, and redundant teenagers.
Following the story are helpful profile pages that give us a little more background on these characters. While Archie Comics has brought some of them back for the modern era, it hasn't found a place for all of them yet, even some it promises to here. Archie is a hopping place today, and I can only hope that we will yet see new tales of Cosmo, Gloomy Gus, and Super Duck.
August 18, 2013
Public library copy.
This awful book read as if the publisher was on a red eye deadline to hurry and publish a book featuring its library catalog of intellectual properties from 1940 so as to ensure the copyright didn't lapse. And the publisher decided the only way to ensure a sale was to incorporate all the characters into its only marketable title, Archie. I'm sure the freelancers hired to write and draw the book tried to take their best step forward, but a story like this was doomed to fail because there's no way to tell an interesting story with a huge cast of derivative characters mixed into Archie's one universe. It's be like watching a Star Wars movie and then Sherlock Holmes, the bee from Honey Nut Cheerios, Captain Marvel, Chip and Dale, and all the Duck Tales cast all joined together to fight...I dunno, Nazis.
This awful book read as if the publisher was on a red eye deadline to hurry and publish a book featuring its library catalog of intellectual properties from 1940 so as to ensure the copyright didn't lapse. And the publisher decided the only way to ensure a sale was to incorporate all the characters into its only marketable title, Archie. I'm sure the freelancers hired to write and draw the book tried to take their best step forward, but a story like this was doomed to fail because there's no way to tell an interesting story with a huge cast of derivative characters mixed into Archie's one universe. It's be like watching a Star Wars movie and then Sherlock Holmes, the bee from Honey Nut Cheerios, Captain Marvel, Chip and Dale, and all the Duck Tales cast all joined together to fight...I dunno, Nazis.
September 29, 2014
My first Archie and Friends graphic novel and I wast too impressed. Maybe it was the story about meteors and inter-dimension comic book stuff. I dont know. Not giving up on Archie and Friends but didnt really like this one.
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