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It's interesting watching Archie slowly take over the covers, and eventually the whole book. Seeing their sizes and the amount of cover they both occupy over the stretch is really neat. I'm glad that MLJ was aware enough to see what was selling and to aggressively push i out there. Taking the hero out of the book was fairly bold in a time when superheroes dominated the landscape.

I never realized that The Shield was gay for Archie.

That fish cover freaks me out.

Not having seen many Golden Age Archie covers outside this site, I was a bit surprised at how utterly dour Jughead looks on these covers.

Boy, sometimes the art back then really sucked, huh? I mean, look at the Shield's midsection on the cover of #42. Who drew that? Liefeld's grandfather? I guess they were churning out books at such a fast rate, everything submitted got published.

Thanks for the post. It is neat to see these, my criticism aside.

I think I was too distracted by Archie's horrific buck teeth to notice the Shield's midsection. Seriously, the eldritch goat with a thousand young isn't that disturbing.

Where's Archie's right hand at on the cover of 47?

"Yup, folks! Nothin' like being happy!" (Pep 41)

NOW WAITAMINNIT! Isn't that Superboy-Prime's battlecry?

I find it interesting that it isn't just Archie that was showing up, it was often Jughead as well (who looks pretty creepy to boot).

For an equally bizarre cover transition, check out the final few issues of the golden age Green Lantern covers, where Rex the Wonder Dog slowly noses out the titular star until it's all-dog action!

The ice sculpture is the oddest to me, as it looks like the Shield is singing while sculpting a giant Archie ice sculpture.

For an equally bizarre cover transition, check out the final few issues of the golden age Green Lantern covers, where Rex the Wonder Dog slowly noses out the titular star until it’s all-dog action!

Ha! Yeah, I featured that here -

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/02/16/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-38/

That was a bizarre one, too.

Screw the dynamic new look. Strung-out Jughead from the Golden Age is what the kids would really love these days.

That is the most awesomely depressing looking Jughead ever. If Archie ever does a parody of Crisis, I hope they bring him back.

I was about to say...I had no idea Jughead was originally played by a suicidal 45-year-old man.

Also, that fish cover? I do believe we have a winner in the Unintentionally Nightmare-Inducing Sweepstakes from the Golden Age. Jimmy Olsen, eat your heart out.