The Best of Archie Comics 3 Deluxe Edition

The Best of Archie Comics #3

by Archie Superstars

It's Archie's third volume in our all-time bestselling The Best of Archie Comics graphic novel series, featuring even more great stories from Archie's eight decades of excellence! This fun full-color collection of more of Archie's all-time favorite stories, lovingly hand-selected and introduced by Archie creators, editors, and historians from 200,000 pages of material, is a must-have for any Archie fan and fans of comics in general, as well as a great introduction to the comics medium!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Humor, Graphic Novels Comics, Slice Of Life, Childrens

416 pages, Hardcover

First published September 3, 2013

About the author

THE ARCHIE SUPERSTARS are the impressive line-up of talented writers and artists who have brought Archie, his friends and his world to life for more than 70 years, from legends such as Dan DeCarlo, Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey, and Bob Montana to recent greats like Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz, and many more!

Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 3 out of 5]

The same as the previous volume...in both good and bad ways.

[Rain · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love it! Having the opportunity to read the favorites of different people behind the Archie Comics, especially having the chance to finally read the Archie special: Reversedale is just great. Coming up with this book with the best strips of each decade is such a treat including the comments of different people outside the Archie comics franchise such as Stan Lee. I grew up reading Archie comics so I feel like that this book gave its dedicated readers more reason to stay and entice new readers as well.

[Mari]

Meh

[Susanna Zhang · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a collection...it’s a shameful amount haha

[Ashley Lambert-Maberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't expect Archie stories to rival Middlemarch or All Clear, and they don't. But I suppose I might expect the self-declared best of Archie to be really pretty good, and for the most part, they're okay, and that's fine, because the beauty of Archie is you pretty much know what you're going to get: no dizzying lows, no outrageous highs, just mild hijinks when you're in the mood for mild hijinks.

So I enjoyed this collection about as much as one might expect to. There was one stand-out: a guest-author penned a tale about the gang each giving up their essential quality in order to save one another, and it was terrific.

(Note: I'm a writer, so I suffer when I offer fewer than five stars. But these aren't ratings of quality, they're a subjective account of how much I liked the book: 5* = an unalloyed pleasure from start to finish, 4* = really enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)

[J.B. Mathias · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked the idea of an archie collection that collects some of the best stories and organizes them by decades. It was especially interesting to see some stories I've never seen before from the 40's and 50's. I thought there was a good range of story types but there were some that were questionable. The more modern Sabrina stories in particular I thought were terrible but if the 2010s were the only decade with some bad stories then it means it's a pretty good collection. I liked that it included a new archies story and an Archie's weird mysteries story.

I loved Archie as a kid then grew out of it and have now been rediscovering why I loved them when I was younger.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always a classic, and it reminds me of reading a ton of comic books left over from the seventies and eighties at my grandparents' place. They had literally boxes of the stuff - the colouring in the 1980s was really something else.

Archie Comics are always fun, but looking at the development of attitudes and storylines throughout the years is really interesting, particularly in the portrayal of the comic book ladies! Will definitely have to pick up more of these.

[Canavan · Rating 2 out of 5]

✭✭

[Alex Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best of archie comics book three!
The first and second books are amazing,and the third book follows their amazingness. The stories are hilarious,action packed,and adventurous. Archie and the gang are still as popular as ever.
I hope they make The best of archie comics book four! :D

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

[Sharanya · Rating 4 out of 5]

well, when I was growing up I did really enjoy these, it is a good compilation of stories from over the years, but well that's what it is, don't think I will go back to another Archie

[Lucy]

Funny, colorful and easy to read capturing how characters change through out the decades but still hold onto the core of the story!

[Aliza Gans · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like to read all sorts of things including deep and poignant works but Archie is always a fun read!