“When Covid came around… I remembered a story where Archie and friends were wearing masks. When I went back through my stack of Archie digests, I gasped when I saw Germs of Endearment,” Nancy Silberkleit, Co-CEO of Archie Comics, told The Indian Express. This is a reprint from decades ago, but Silberkleit saw it as a reprint in Archie & Me digest #6 in 2018, and marvelled at some of the writers’ ‘futuristic imaginations’. In an email interview, she said, “I was astonished that our writers had done a story years ago with Archie and friends in school wearing masks. “I also have bumper issues of Archie Comics which I am thoroughly enjoying.

Source: Indian Express April 28, 2021 13:52 UTC