The Bizarre Origin & History of ARCHIE: From Comics to Riverdale Explained!

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Archie Comics is home to iconic characters like Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and Archie Andrews himself. And with The CW wrapping up the season finale of the Riverdale tv show, let's take a look back at Archie Comics as a company to explain their bizarre origin and history that involves untimely deaths, toxic lawsuits, and an unlikely friendship that would take Archie and the Riverdale gang from the 1940s to the modern world!

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