He subsequently developed an interest in telling faithbased stories in the comic book medium. Smith, 44, spent most of his life collecting comic books. Rare comic books price guide, valuable, expensive, world. Archies firstever original young adult graphic novel. The boys of riverdale high are straightup unzipped i. A total of 120 comic books covering a span from february 1970 through december 1979, including annuals, all articles, and every single advertisement. Archie comics has spawned characters whose popularity ha. Since then, archie and his teenage friends have entertained young and old alike with their hilarious misadventures. View market values for books, store your collection, and meet fellow comic fans. These small 8page comics were sold in tobacco shops, barber shops, bars or other places that were frequented by a largely male clientele.
I have loved the archie comics since way back when i was a kid. The lust filled pages of archie comics in the 1970s flashbak. Archie comics characters, archie comic books, got characters, comic book characters, comic character, book cover art, comic book covers, archie and. Classics illustrated is an american comic book magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as les miserables, moby dick, hamlet, and the iliad. Scroll through the infographic below to learn how much your vintage comics may currently be worth.
Archie comics always captured the blinding slaphappy horniness of adolescence, but in the 70s things got kicked up a notch. Afterlife with archie is a mature horror comic where riverdale is overrun with zombies. T is a sensational representation of dan decarlo work all of the books are in various conditions ranging from good to very good. Jughead, archie comics lot of 56 comics, plus as captain hero. When i was young i had so many issues of archies double digest you couldve wallpapered my room with them and still had a few books left. For avid comic book collectors and enthusiasts, you will find below the list of the top 25 rare comic books in the world. Veronica is wearing a new paper dress, but is upstaged by betty wearing a paper dress made out of comic strips. The characters were created by publishereditor john l. From clean cut kids to christian comics to riverdale. Archie comics for free without any registration or irritating popups or disturbing ads. Mar 20, 2014 11 surprising facts about archie comics. Archie also known as archie comics is an ongoing comic book series featuring the archie comics character archie andrews. Archie s competing crushes proved they could handle their own spinoff book, the first one in the archie comics series. Conans success as a comic hero resulted in adaptations of other howard characters.
It follows the silver age of comic books, and is followed by the modern age of comic books. Spire christian comics from the 1970s the idea of the rapture had been floating around various christian denominations for decades but christian comics brought it to the masses. Palcomix 3d comics incest art of jaguar cartoon reality furry comics hentai illustrated interracial jkr comics john persons kaos kirtu comics online read with. In the 1970s and 1980s, spire christian comics, a line of comic books by fleming h.
The most common 1970s archie comics material is glass. The best of archie contains comics from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Oct 25, 2017 the great thing about archie is year after year he only seems to get more popular, and that means the values of these 15 books have aged like fine wine. Though not in the least rare, demand drives the price. This is one of the key bronze age 1970s comic books. The company was eventually renamed archie comics to reflect archie s importance, and still operates under that name today. Weve been selling comics since 1961 our first sale. Revell, obtained license to feature the archie characters in several of its. Archie american comic book character, and now the latest. Archie comics strips, archie comic books, vintage comic books, vintage comics, archie comics jughead, archie comics riverdale, josie and the pussycats, betty and jughead, betty and veronica. After it became apparent that archie was going to be the companys biggest moneymaking character, he was given his own title in 1942. Condition seems acceptable, but i am not an expert in comic books. These books would someday be college tuition, or a house down payment, smith. This rare comic book price guide presents the latest value of rare comics based on the average valuation of the most reputable comic book price catalogs in the business.
You didnt have to live in the bible belt to have a spire archie comic cross your path. If you own one of these, then you have a really nice asset. The archie comics line of comic books is one of the most successful, longest running brands in the h. On the other hand, if you want to see archie and the gang talking openly about pot and sex in a 1970s comic book, where else are you gonna go. It is 416 pages and packed with all the fun loving antics that archie and the gang can cook up.
The comic book market is primarily concentrated on more vintage comics, most of which were published in the 1930s to mid1970s. Archie comics shop archie subscriptions afterlife with archie dark circle comics. From here on out archie was the topbilled character in pep comics, and this issue was the first in a long line of magazine covers featuring him until the series ended in the 1980s. How much are my comic books worth welcome to, a quick and simple guide to help you grade and identify your old comic books. Read comics online free archie comics comic book issue. Those that have survived decades of readership are highly valuable. The bronze age of comic books is an informal name for a period in the history of american superhero comic books usually said to run from 1970 to 1984. The lust filled pages of archie comics in the 1970s.
These have been in storage for about thirty years, each in a plastic bag and labeled as shown in pic. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Jul 31, 2014 1970s comic books sex 1970s archie comics. Just go to the top of the page and look in the right column.
What is your archie comics series comic book worth. Find the value of the bantam books comic archie comics series miniseries. Why buy old comic books when you can buy books of old comics. Or archie bunker, american televisions badtempered bigot from the 1970s. List of important comics from the 1970s rare comics.
With that caveat stated, without further ado, here is a list of 50 important comics from the 1970s. The archie comics line of comic books is one of the most successful, longest running brands in the history of the comic industry. Classics illustrated is an american comic bookmagazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as les miserables, moby dick, hamlet, and the iliad. In the mid1960s, during the period fans and historians call the silver age of comic books, archie switched its superheroes to a new imprint, mighty comics group, with the mlj heroes done in the campy humor of the batman tv show. Goldwater, written by vic bloom and drawn by bob montana. Archie s weird mysteries took on bmovie monsters like mummies and a.
Archie proved to be popular enough to warrant his own selftitled ongoing comic book series which began publication in the winter of 1942 and ran until june 2015. Mlj magazines, founded in 1939, was the publisher of pep comics. The mostly americanmade tijuana bibles are widely considered to be the first underground comic books. The easiest way to determine if your comics fall into the good category is by looking at the cover price. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Comic section, script by dick malmgren, pencils by dan decarlo, inks by rudy lapick. 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. Comic books from the 70s, 80s and 90s do you remember.
Get the best deal for archie comic books from the largest online selection at. Weiners marvel graphic novels and related publications. The top selling comic books that begin with a are alpha flight comic books 1983 series, amazing adventures comic books 1970 series, amazing spiderman comic books 1963 series, archie comic books and avengers comic books 1963 series you can also search 7 more ways. All the comics are in hd quality and you have the option to sort them by popularity. After 1975, i didnt buy another archie comic book from any publisher for about twenty years with the exception of a single little archie reprint i picked up in the early 80s, because i was. Archie proved to be popular enough to warrant his own selftitled ongoing comic book series which began publication in the winter of 1942 and ran. In the 1970s, archie and his pals were a bunch of crazed perverts. We created this guide to help the many people who call us asking how much are my comic books worth. With the exception of a few issues, which have value no matter what their shape, when you get into late 1960s and even 1970s comics, only top condition examples are worth big bucks. Im not a professional comic book dealer or at grading comic books.
Jan 19, 2017 whatever the show dishes up, itll have a hard time matching some of the crazy stories that have made their way into the books over the years. There are four basic criteria that make vintage comic books appealing to collectors. This list is in chronological order, so keep reading to learn which recent books are worth a pretty penny. Archie comics have sold 2 billion comics and are published in a dozen different foreign languages and distributed all over the world. Just as supply and demand work for any retail product, the less supply of a particular comic, the greater the demand. One of archie comics longtime writers, al hartley, became a bornagain christian in the 1970s. The companys many titles feature the fictional teenagers archie andrews, jughead jones, betty cooper, veronica lodge, reggie mantle, sabrina spellman, and josie and the pussycats the company began in 1939 as mlj comics, which primarily published superhero comics.
Since comic books are intended to be read and not just looked at, it is sometimes difficult to find key old comic books in mint condition. Assuming you keep your comics in near mint condition prices for the infographic were determined assuming that comics were a 9. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. In 1970, marvel published the first comic book issue of robert e. Along with his friends jughead jones and moose mason, his rival reggie mantle, and the two girls he cant decide between, betty cooper and veronica lodge, archie has remained continuously in print. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, the archie characters also appeared in various series. Archie comics bronze age comics 19701983 for sale ebay. Archie comics is the leading mass market comic book publisher in the world and the home to a wide array of the most popular humor, actionadventure and superhero characters in entertainment, including archie, jughead, betty, veronica, reggie, kevin keller, josie and the pussycats, sabrina the teenage witch, and many more. Now, experience unforgettable comics moments from the 1940s to the 1970s in this box set collecting four volumes of the archies americana series. Dc comics responded with comics featuring warlord, beowulf, and fritz leibers fafhrd and the gray mouser. The new archies tried to update the animation to please kids from the 1980s.
Read more read less inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids. Where the books reprinting marvel comics are concerned, check out robert g. Ive also posted more lists of key comic books by year including other decades. Favorite archie artists the 70s archie comics fan forum with. Although, by this time the comics were being produced in larger runs, so issues in bad condition will only fetch a few hundred bucks. Give our website hdporncomics a try and you will not regret it. New listing betty and veronica 195 372 fn good girl art cover.
Spire comics began in continue reading jesus in four colors. The official home of archie, betty, veronica, jughead, reggie, and more. We have record prices and minimum values for every archie. Make offer vtg archies lot lp 2 fun books iron ons treasury comic. Get the best deals on archie comics bronze age comics 1970 1983. An annotated guide to comics, prose novels, childrens books, articles, criticism and reference works, 19652008 2008. Find more yesteryear comics like archie comics 001 from our hand picked and reader recommended comic list at. If there are 15,000 copies of the comic in perfect condition, it is going to be less desirable than one with only 100 known copies in mint condition. What follows are fifteen unusually bizarre tales told in the pages of archie comics. The boys of riverdale high are straightup unzipped.
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