Love life[ edit ] Archie and Betty have been best friends and love interests all their lives. When Veronica Lodge moves to Riverdale, however, he switched his attention to her, making Betty both angry and jealous.
She began competing with Veronica for his affection. In the comics, he sometimes thinks of Betty more as a close friend and confidant; he likes it that he can use her as a back-up when he does not have a date with Veronica.
He dislikes it when Betty dates other boys, wanting her to stay available as his second choice. Archie is married to Betty in Archie Marries Betty: Life with Archie series. Archie Often competes for the attention of Betty and Veronica with his rival, Reggie Mantle , and occasionally other boys. Veronica keeps Archie guessing, never letting him take her for granted.
Betty, on the other hand, clearly lets Archie know she adores him. Archie chooses to keep fighting for Veronica. A third love interest is a wealthy red-headed girl named Cheryl Blossom. At first, she was deemed too sexual and a bit promiscuous and was taken out of the series, but due to her popularity, she was brought back in Love Showdown , a four-part mini-series in which Archie attempts to make a decision between Cheryl, Betty, and Veronica.
On May 15, , Archie Comics announced that Archie would finally pick one of the girls to marry, in a story arc in Archie — Aug. In both, he has twins: The Archies and Josie and the Pussycats were touring together and, while rehearsing, Archie and Valerie secretly fell in love as they co-wrote the song "More Than Words" that described their feelings.
Issue revealed that this relationship had seeped into common knowledge by the end of the tour. Archie and Valerie were forced apart when the Pussycats were touring Europe without the Archies, but hoped to keep their relationship going. Jughead Jones has been Archie's best friend ever since childhood. When Jughead first came to Riverdale, he was in a bad mood and tended to dismiss Archie.
However, Archie, of good heart, tried to cheer up Jughead and the two have been inseparable ever since. Jughead wears a trademark clubhouse beanie a Depression-era style of makeshift hatwear, crafted from an inverted fedora with a scallop-cut brim, and decorated with assorted pinbacks and an inscrutable, closed-eyelid expression. Often Jughead has to help Archie out from a tricky situation. Jughead usually knows when Archie's ideas will not work, but is powerless to avoid getting involved.
Reggie Mantle is Archie's constant romantic and athletic rival. Each often makes attempts to separate the other from Veronica, occasionally exhibiting physical violence, and both have won their fair share of scrapes with each other. Reggie takes every opportunity to play practical jokes on Archie and make cynical wisecracks. However, Reggie is often shown as a companion to and of Archie despite his arrogance and competitive nature, and they are often seen together practicing athletics or pursuing dates.
Archie's other friends include Dilton Doiley , the local genius who gets Archie into and out of trouble through his experiments and inventions; Moose Mason , the dim-witted but likable star athlete of Riverdale High who is often Archie's teammate; Chuck Clayton , another of Archie's teammates who was originally shy and reclusive but came out of his shell when Archie befriended him; Moose and Chuck's girlfriends Midge Klump and Nancy Woods , two of the very few attractive girls Archie does not fall for; and Ethel Muggs , a girl with a major crush on Jughead, who often wins his heart with the use of fresh-baked cookies.
Sports[ edit ] Outside of dating, Archie largely enjoys sports. He plays baseball, basketball, and football for the Riverdale High teams.
Though often not as good an athlete as Moose Mason, Chuck Clayton or Reggie Mantle, he proves a valuable member of the school team. Coaches Kleats and Clayton value him for both his athletic abilities and his team spirit. However, Archie's athletic abilities vary from story to story, due to his frequent clumsiness.
He also has a tendency to pay more attention to cheerleaders than to his playing. For this reason, Coach Kleats often tries to avoid resorting to use Archie in a game. Archie's car[ edit ] Issue of Life With Archie from , in which Archie's jalopy is destroyed Automobiles are one of Archie's hobbies, and he is passionate about his car.
For decades, he was shown driving a Ford Model T jalopy called "Betsy". In Archie double digest , it is said to be a Model A. Archie's jalopy was destroyed permanently in issue of Life With Archie, which was published in Archie Digest , published in October , included a new story in which the one and only Mr.
Lodge owned an antique car that had a strong resemblance to Archie's jalopy. The story featured Archie's grandfather who, as a teenager, looked and dressed like Archie from the s. It turned out that he owned the same jalopy that Mr. Lodge now owned. Main article: The Archies The Archies is a garage band containing Archie lead vocals and lead guitar , Reggie bassist or guitarist , Veronica vocals and keyboards , Betty vocals and tambourine , and Jughead drums.
Archie founded the group himself. Although not as famous as Josie and The Pussycats , the band plays numerous gigs and has some notoriety. In the Little Archies series, the band just starts to form, although Archie, Betty, Jughead, Reggie, and Veronica start to play different kind of songs. Death of Archie[ edit ] 72 years after the character's first appearance, in April , Archie Comics announced that the adult Archie would be killed in the July issue 36 of Life with Archie, [7] while the teenage Archie would continue in the other Archie comic series titles.
Archie dies when he is shot in the stomach while saving his friend, Senator Kevin Keller. The final issue 37 is set one year after Archie's death. The story ends with Jughead, owner of the Choklit Shop, serving a sundae to three children who resemble Little Archie, Betty, and Veronica.
In other media[ edit ] Radio[ edit ] Archie and cast: The Adventures of Archie Andrews, Montana's characters were heard on radio in the early s. The program's original announcer was Kenneth Banghart, later succeeded by Bob Shepard during the —48 season, when Swift and Company sponsored the program and Dick Dudley. Stone later wrote about his radio career in his autobiography, Relax Bygone Days Press,
Upon Mike's graduation, Who is archie dating, he and Gloria move into their own home next door, allowing Archie and Mike to interact nearly as much as they had when they were living in the same house. Death of Archie[ edit ] 72 years after the character's first Who is archie dating, in AprilArchie Comics announced that the adult Archie would be killed in the July issue 36 of Life with Archie, [7] while the teenage Archie would continue in the other Archie comic series titles. But the most egregious offender in the Archie lookalike category has to go to Archie Comics itself, which shamelessly imitated itself for decades. He takes pride in being religious, although he rarely attends church services and constantly mispronounces the name of his minister, Reverend Felcher, as "Reverend Fletcher", Who is archie dating. The two most successful non-Archie original titles have been Sabrina and Josie and the Pussycatsboth of which were spin-offs of the original Riverdale series. Fred visits again for Christmas infinally revealing to everyone why he left his first wife and found love with Katherine. Archie repeatedly called Richard M. He dislikes it when Betty dates other boys, wanting her to stay available as his second choice. Archie brand non-Archie comics The world of teen comedy comics is large, and astride it stands Archie Andrews, the Colossus of the genre. A cast slowly grew around him and his buddies, and by the mids, the world had for the most part developed into the cast we would now recognize.
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