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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-10 09:50:00

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char: archie andrews, char: betty cooper, creator: al hartley, publisher: spire christian comics

Archie, in "Final Exam"

This is from Archie's Clean Slate, written and illustrated by Al Hartley.

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besamim
2009-04-10 11:03 pm UTC (link)

A few of the less preachy Spire Archie stories did make their way into the regular Archie digests. I remember one, for example, where Archie enrolls in summer school not because he failed, but because he wants to learn more so he can make the world a better place. Weatherbee tells him that you don't make the world better by studying, but by doing. So he and Archie volunteer helping inner city kids while talking about how many of them grow up with neglect and violence, and need love. At the end they all sing "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," the only explicit nod to Christianity.

There was another I remember which starts out as a geographical piece about the Gulf Stream (with "the gang" at the beach), then suddenly veers into a sermon about how God created such a beautiful world and we humans have polluted it. But that's as preachy as it gets. I doubt very much the mainstream Archie digests ever reprinted the ones where the characters complain about busing and schools teaching we evolved "from monkeys" and such. I hope not.

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