Archie Archives: The Double Date and Other Stories

Archie Andrews and his calamitous crew of screwball schoolmates are some of the best-known and most beloved characters in the history of comics. Archie, Betty, Veronica, Reggie, Jughead, and the rest of the Riverdale gang have seen seventy years of teenage antics, filtered through the lenses of generation after generation of readers. Now Archie fans of all ages can return to the beginning of it all with Archie Archives from Dark Horse Comics.

This beautifully reproduced collection includes over 200 pages of hilarious high-school high jinks and the cartooning greats who brought Archie to life!

Collects Pep Comics #46-#50 and Archie Comics #7-#10!

"It is truly fascinating to go back and read the Archie Archives. These anthologies are time capsules in themselves."
--New York Journal of Books

Harry F. Sahle drew gag cartoons for Boy's Life in the late 1930s. During the 1940s he was a comic book artist for the Chesler Studio and Funnies Inc. He did several features for Archie Publications, such as Applejack, Archie, The Black Hood, Red Rube and Steel Sterling. He did back-ups for Hillman (in Air Fighters and Airboy), fillers for Centaur and Ziff-Davis, and a couple of features for Marvel, including Black Widow, Human Torch, Blonde Phantom and Silver Scorpion. For Quality, he did the features Candy and Ezra from the mid-1940s until his death in the mid-1950s. Sahle was also the creator of the Candy newspaper strip for the Chicago Times (1944-45).