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Ah, yes. That moment in the '50s when those two little shits were the best pals in the world and used to torment Jughead. And got their comeuppance each time.

"Model Student", Archie's Pal Jughead #17, April 1953, art by Bill Vigoda

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"Ballots and Ballyhoo", "Council of War"

On the eve of the election, Bill Maher was onto one of his regular stock hobby horse. So, "If Kamala loses" it will be because "she failed to pull a 'Sister Souljah' Moment." That case of candidate Bill Clinton making political hay by denouncing inflammatory comments by rap star Sister Souljah when speaking at Jesse Jackson's event. In the context of messaging in 2024, I do not know what the Bill Mahers of the country wanted Harris to do. Purchase a thirty minute network primetime infomercial to deliver a grand speech devoted exclusively on how the word "Latinx" sucks? Rush into the prisons holding the two instances that fall somewhere of the vicinity of "sex change operations for illegal immigrants in prison" and not leave until that new penis is jammed back into one and the breasts ripped off the other? We demand performative symbolic political measures NOW!

The dilemma of presidential elections is to watch an election is to know -- I do not matter here. Somehow I am rooting for the need to storm the minds of a smattering of voting blocs in a few rust belt states. I myself want to elect plodding personality-less figures that can maybe even fade out of view at times, but I know those won't go over, so to the folder and a search for a "charismatic" person who "inspires" you. The good news is the "have a beer with" question is gone. And my dream of someone who can fade out of view and fulfilling a national equivalent of "fixing potholes" goes by the wayside as it goes to the loudmouth charging in with a bullhorn, America losing any claim of "exceptionalism" in joining the list of nations that have popularly elected leaders who previously were in a failed coup attempt.

I hear this figure cast about, when explaining this election. It came down to the price of eggs. Everything and anything is cast aside -- Pet eating Haitian immigrants and the entering of a fugue state to enjoy YMCA and Ave Maria for half an hour -- to protest the high price of eggs. And a figure is placed on this one. Ten bucks a dozen. Meaning, they are living in a headspace where they projected the inflation of a few years ago into a fictional present dystopia. Everyone quit buying eggs at an earlier price increase and just assumed an ever steeper line graph upward forever and ever?

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Stan Goldberg "Millie's Nifty Nighties" Millie the Model Pin-Up Page 5 Original Art (Marvel, circa 1962) Source

Millie's Nifty Nighties ran annually in Millie the Model Annuals #1-6, then ended in Millie the Model #145.

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Preview of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #329

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PEP Comics #168 from 1964

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“Of course, when it comes to fantasizing, I’m usually the fantasizee, not the fantasizer!”

Elvira’s House of Mystery #5, July 1986, framing sequence art by Mark Beachum 

Confused about those Blue Devil and Swamp Thing comics? See here for more info. 

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Bruce Timm Ghost pinup (1995) Source

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Bill Vigoda “Groomed for Doom” Pal’s and Gals #7 (1958) Source

“Betty and Veronica give Jughead a manicure and Reggie and Archie take photos to blackmail him!”

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land of dreams

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Archie's Pal Jughead #17, April 1953

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Catwoman design by Darwyn Cooke

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Archie One

Caveman dating rituals get civilized.

Searching for that panel, Betty coming on to Jughead, at "Bughead in the Comics", she seems to have skipped that one.

Filling in a 1/3 page promo copy, this story was cut short at its last page, and -- good place to fill in with a couple of dinosaurs.

From what I can, there is a stray Archie Caveman story in 1944. Another dream sequence comes in 1963. And with this here in 1968 -- it is the beginning of the move into regular a regular feature, slotted into one title or another on through the last edition of 'Everything's Archie' in 1991. And this here is not titled 'Archie 1' but 'Archie One', and is more explanatory in narrative than later, and with one contemporary to 1968 reference after another. So, yes, there are one hundred plus adventures of Archie as a Caveman.

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Madam President

Going meta there in breaking the fourth wall.

18 going on 17.

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Wonder Woman Votes by Ramona Fradon

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