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Archie Comic Publications, Ltd. is an American comic book publisher based out of Pelham, New York. It began in 1939 as MLJ Comics, after the initials of its founders, Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit, and John L. Goldwater. MLJ's titles included ComicBook/BlueRibbonComics, ComicBook/PepComics, and ComicBook/TopNotchComics, and its superhero title ''ComicBook/TheShield'' ultimately yielded the character that would become the publisher’s new namesake in 1941: Archibald "Archie" Andrews.

The ''Film/AndyHardy'' films were the primary inspiration for this teenaged everyman, and his adventures with his friends soon became the publisher’s headliner. This led to MLJ changing its name to Archie Comics Publications, with the superhero titles being shifted over to the “Archie Adventure Series”.

Archie Comics pushed for the creation of MediaNotes/TheComicsCode, and more or less ran it for the entirety of its existence. Archie was the last publisher officially adhering to the Code when it ceased to exist in early 2011.[[note]] Creator/DCComics was the other holdout – although they had been slowly dropping their titles from the Code throughout the 2000's, a few series continued to follow it until the end of 2010. Once DC left the Code, Archie agreed there was no point in keeping it around.[[/note]] Unofficially, they had stopped following it decades earlier, but nobody noticed because things like sex, drugs, or violence were never really part of the ''Archie'' universe anyway... until 2013 when they launched the ComicBook/ArchieHorror imprint, depicting gruesome horror stories starring [[SubvertedKidsShow versions of the "Archie" cast]].

More information and activities: [[http://www.archiecomics.com/ http://www.archiecomics.com/]]

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[[folder: Imprints ]]

* Archie Action
* ComicBook/ArchieHorror
* ComicBook/DarkCircleComics
* Radio Comics[=/=]Mighty Comics Group
* Stan Lee Comics

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[[folder: Archieverse Titles ]]

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics''
* ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats''
* ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''

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[[folder: Licensed Titles ]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|ArchieComics}}''
* ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones''
* ''ComicBook/ManTech''
* ''ComicBook/{{Mega Man|ArchieComics}}''
* ''ComicBook/NightsIntoDreams''
* ''ComicBook/StreetSharks''
* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures''
* ''ComicBook/WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa''

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[[folder: Superhero Titles ]]

* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfTheFly''
* ''ComicBook/AdventuresOfTheJaguar''
* ''ComicBook/BlackHoodComics''
* ''ComicBook/BlueRibbonComics''
* ''ComicBook/TheComet''
* ''ComicBook/FlyMan''
* ''ComicBook/HangmanComics''
* ''ComicBook/MightyCrusaders''
** ''ComicBook/NewCrusaders''
* ''ComicBook/TheShield''
* ''ComicBook/ShieldWizardComics''
* ''ComicBook/TopNotchComics''
* ''ComicBook/ZipComics''

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[[folder: Anthologies ]]

* ComicBook/PepComics
* ComicBook/JackpotComics

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[[folder: Others ]]

* ComicBook/SuperDuck
* ComicBook/WilburComics
* ComicBook/KatyKeene
* ComicBook/LilJinx
* ComicBook/CosmoTheMerryMartian
** ComicBook/Cosmo2018
* ComicBook/ThatWilkinBoy
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!!Tropes:

* AbandonedMascot: MLJ Comics's original mascot was the patriotic superhero ComicBook/TheShield. However their smash hit ''Archie Comics'' series was so successful, not only did Archie become their mascot, but MLJ changed their name to Archie Comics. The Shield languished and became a public domain character, however Archie has made attempts to revitalize the character since the 1990s.
* AnimalisticAbilities: The Jaguar has all the powers of the animal kingdom amplified a thousandfold. For instance, summoning the toughness of a rhino's hide grants him invulnerability comparable to Superman.
* AppropriatedTitle: Archie Comics is named for the most popular title of its previous incarnation, MLJ, Ltd.
* FanworkBan: Concerned about the proliferation of Rule34 fanfics, Archie Comics has put a general kibosh on all fan fiction of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' in general. That hasn't stopped people from putting up fan fiction and fan art on the Internet anyway, although more "official" venues still have to respect the ban; Website/FanFictionDotNet, for instance, took down its ''Archie'' section (but not its ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'' section), but Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn still has one. The main exception is ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', since all ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' characters are owned by Creator/{{Sega}}, which is Japanese and doesn't mind nearly as much. (Creator/KenPenders, though, insists that any fan art of his characters include a copyright crediting him.)
* TheGreatSerpent: The Jaguar's origin story has him and his co-workers getting attacked by a [[MixAndMatchCritter giant, dinosaur-like serpent]].
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