I know I am always pleasantly surprised whenever a Betty's Diary story pops up in an issue of Betty nowadays.

The Veronica book was fun, too, when she was going 'round the world. It was hard, though. You had to come up with a four part page-turner of a story, and then you had to do some hard research on the area she was going to so the story had more of an authentic ring to it. My favorite was when she went to Japan. My least fave was the one where she went to Canada. Mostly because I was ticked that it had to be set during the winter--thus pushing all the stereotypes of Canada as the Frozen North. I wished we could have had it set in the summer. And I know the Canadians had to be disappointed as well.

When the Veronica traveling stories were published, this was before the age of the net--I had to do most of my research at the library. Now I just go online. For the Canada one, I wound up calling the Visitors Information centers in all the provinces and territories across Canada to have them send me their tourist brochures in the mail so I could use them as reference. I got into some interesting conversations and had a pricey phone bill that month.

I wrote a couple of Archie 3000 stories as well, wish I could have done a few more. I kind of liked the Jetson-y feel to it all. One of my few penciled stories was done for that book.

Good times....! I sure do miss 'em.

All of those comics are worthless now. Even all the X-series, I assume. Right?

Still, I'd pay a couple bucks to see Jughead time travel...

Brian is wrong; R/C Racers was awesome. And their most ambitious title was Time Police, not Jughead's Diner.

Kiki is wrong; she's getting #1 confused with #5 (and there was never a clone story).

EDC is wrong; only Jughead and Betty got shrunk and that was in RC Racers #8.

But Faculty Funnies? Everyone's right. It's just as strange as it looks.

Binky: Jughead didn't meet Z-Man until Jughead #36 which came out during a slightly different yet still experimental era. Read more about it on my site. And he was NOT from outer space....

I have the TV movie and the Gene Colan comic adaption. According to it, Moose marries Midge and they grow up to be chiropractors. And his door says "Moose Mason," proving "Moose" is his actual name.

As for these series, I remember seeing stories from most of them in digests as a kid. Like a previous commentator said, they were a lot of fun there. An "Archie 3000" or whatever was a nice way to break up the monotony of a digest.

And I really, really loved Jughead's Time Police as a kid. Very Doctor-Who-esque, with January McAndrews as the Doctor and Jughead as her companion.

I'll give you 5 cents each for your comics and you pay the shipping.

I actually have a bunch of these (some Betty's Diaries, Archies 3000s, and Veronica in...) that were given to me by a friend-of-a-friend kind of deal... I had no idea they all came out in the same time frame and had vanished since.