Archie Comics

Archie Comics is a comic book publisher geared towards families. It was named for their flagship series, Archie, which starred Archie Andrews and had notable characters including Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and Moose. The Archie series initially dealt with wholesome family entertainment (and, for a time, the characters were licensed to be used by Al Hartley, who was drawing the cartoons at the time, in a series of Christian comic books). However, starting in the late 2000s, the comic flagship series started peddling more left-wing themes and making the content far more adult in nature, including the creation of a homosexual teen by Kevin Keller (who is billed as a popular character despite his comic sales not going through the roof), an arc where the characters in Riverdale join Occupy Wall Street, and, more infamously, Archie Andrews is killed by taking a bullet. Since its being remade to push left-wing views, the flagship series went from being distributed across various supermarkets to rarely being seen outside comic specialty shops.

Aside from the Archie flagship series, Archie Comics also published stories such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch (which got both a live-action and animated adaptation), Josie and the Pussycats, as well as licensed comic adaptations of video game franchises such as Sonic the Hedgehog (which was largely based initially on the SATAM cartoon series of the same name before it started following the games more closely and eventually SEGA cutting them loose for reasons strongly suspected to be related to the left-ward shift of the flagship series and the negatively impacted sales therein.[1]) and Mega Man.

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1. ↑ http://fourcolormedmon.blogspot.com/2017/07/archie-loses-license-for-sonic-hedgehog.html