The Best of Archie Comics, Book 4

The Best of Archie Comics #4

by Archie Comics

Celebrate everything Archie with this fun, full-color collection!

Contains over 400 pages of classic, much-loved comic book stories—you’ll be entertained beyond belief!

Continuing the immensely successful THE BEST OF ARCHIE COMICS series, Book Four brings together even more of the best Archie stories for comics fans of all ages!
 
THE BEST OF ARCHIE COMICS Book Four collects the most fun, humorous and heartwarming Archie tales from the past seven decades. All of the stories included in this volume are personally chosen by creators, fans and contributors alike, and feature special behind-the-scenes anecdotes. This is a must-have for all Archie—and comic book—fans everywhere!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Humor, Romance

416 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2014

About the author

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by publisher/editor John L. Goldwater, written by Vic Bloom and drawn by Bob Montana. They were based in part on people met by Goldwater "in the Midwest" during his travels throughout the United States while looking for jobs and places to stay.

Archie's first appearance in Pep Comics #22 on December 22, 1941, was drawn by Montana and written by Vic Bloom. With the creation of Archie, publisher Goldwater hoped to appeal to fans of the Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney. Archie Comics is also the title of the company's longest-running publication, the first issue appearing with a cover date of Winter 1942. Starting with issue #114, the title was shortened to simply Archie.

Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 4 out of 5]

An improvement over the last two volumes.

[Lina Tran · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoy that they keep coming out with these "The Best of Archie Comics" and I hope that they continue. I love digests, but it's nice to read it this way

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, I read to my childhood dream's content. .. and I enjoyed it as well

[Lemon Ginger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this as an introduction. Kept me good company on a summer trip.

[David O · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll start with what's great: Archie comics continues to pump out the classics, without screwing up the color! You basically get the most pristine reproductions you could ask for, on nice glossy paper, at the right size! This is also an excellent sampling of the various eras, after the last two installments offered somewhat questionable selections overall.

The not-so-great: there is still nothing comprehensive about these, they feel like at best they could someday add up to a solid twenty book survey of Archie history, but realistically this company has been more focused on hooking fans with a steady drip of content rather than offering comprehensive archive. I dislike the way giant volume numbers are slapped on the spine, especially since they allow each volume to drop out of print pretty quickly. Oh, and they tend to use the last quarter of these books more as promotional tools. But still, a good classic Archie fix.

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[Raven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just pure nostalgia ngl , I can’t wait to get to the other books

[Canavan · Rating 2 out of 5]

✭✭

[Matthew RC · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh Archie. Worked through this along with the kids. Surprisingly interesting to see how styles and society changed from the 40’s through the 70’s/80’s heyday and into the 21st century. Also really again drives home the fact that the 90’s were a banal cultural wasteland.

[Lena Morrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loads of fun. :)