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Punisher and Miss Grundy?

The mind boggles.

Wolverine meets Jughead? I guess it would make more sense than the current Wolverine solo titles.

I stopped being an Archie Reader around 11 or 12, but I had to check this one out.

I read it online.

Oh yeah, I got this a few weeks ago. Just the premise makes this worth checking out, and then the story inside is actually good.

I have no idea how this crossover was even thought up, much less actually published, but it just shows that sometimes the craziest ideas are the best.

I bought this when it first came out and it is indeed excellent. The great thing is that it not only takes advantage of the abundant humor in this ridiculous crossover, but seriously considers what the Punisher's thoughts about a place like Riverdale would be.

I only wish there could be more Archie crossovers with other companies so there could be a trade of this. The Jughead/X-Men cross-over is a good idea. I'd also like to see an Archie/Superman crossover that would take advantage of Archie's similarity in looks and character to Jimmy Olsen.

I lament passing this book up at the time. This kind of insane creativity is truly a reason to love comics.

Oh thank God yes.

The only crossover that ever worked.

Thank you thank you thank you! I read this when it came out, as a big fan of both Archie and the Marvel unis - it delivered in spades.

The extraordinary thing is how simple it actually is to mesh the two worlds. The uber-cynical Punisher is bowled over by the small-town sincerity of Riverdale. Naiive Archie and the gang are all starry-eyed over the big-city anti-hero. Comic mayhem commences in five, four...

I have no idea how this crossover was even thought up, much less actually published, but it just shows that sometimes the craziest ideas are the best.

Might want to have Brian verify it, but the legend goes that a bunch of Marvel execs were sitting around with a bunch of Archie execs, and somebody made the standard joke...and then somebody said 'hey, why not?'

I bought this when it came out. It was bizarre, wacky, and just plain fun. I wish they did more things like that.

I remember seeing this at a convention years ago, and wishing that I'd picked it up just so that I could prove that it existed. Of course, these days, all it takes is a trip to comics.org... or someplace like this.

I bought this when it first came out. Of course, to cover my bases, I bought the more grim "Punisher cover". Now, years later, I am an unashamed Archie Comics fan, and wish I had bought the cover you posted.

I actually dug it out of my stash and re-read it just a couple weeks ago. I caught all the references you pointed out, which made it even more fun now than when I read it a dozen years ago.

Excellent post!

I've never seen this comic but I'll definitely pick it up when I come across it, it sounds even better than the Powdered Toastman (of Ren & Stimpy fame) vs Spider-Man crossover.

That issue of Ren & Stimpy, if I remember correctly, was written by Dan Slott. I know he wrote the first couple of issues of Ren & Stimpy, which were edited by Fabian Nicieza (I think, I'd have to pull them out of the lnog boxes to verify)

I was 9 years old when this comic came out, and not a Marvel fan at all. I remember seeing ads for it in Archie comics and thinking it looked like the craziest thing ever. I finally read it about a decade later, and it turned out I was totally right.

Awesome.

The fact that both this crossover and the Christian Archie Comics exist without cancelling each other out boggles the mind.