Archie Comics

Archie Comics is an American Comic company that primarily publishes the Archie titles of teen humour comics and have in recent year branched out into horror.
== History in horror ==
M.L.J. Magazines, Inc. was a company formed by Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit, and John L. Goldwater and released its first book in 1939. The company hit with a major success with the introduction of the character Archie and his friends Betty Cooper and Jughead Jones in the early 1940s. The comics continued to increase in popularity for decades and remained the companies core concern to the point where the company was rebranded as Archie Comics Publications in 1946. Though Archie would release other series, the Archie family of characters remained the focus for most of their existence, though due to the re-emerging popularity of superheroes in the 1960s, they also released a superhero line of comics.
For most of their existence thereafter, the company released very little in the ways of horror and horror-related comics, save for "Archie's Weird Mysteries", an adaptation of the cartoon in which the Archie gang tackled paranormal cases.
In 2013, inspired by a cover of the series Life with Archie: The Married Years, Archie released it's first Teen+ rated series for ages 13 year old and over with Afterlife with Archie, comic written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Francesco Francavilla in which the cast of Archie must survive a zombie plague. The series was a financial and critical success, with some reviewers calling it among the best horror comics of the era. It also was nominated for several Ghastly Awards for Best New Series, Best Ongoing Title, and Best Colorist for Francesco Francavilla.
The success of this series lead to the announcement of a horror series inspired by the popular character Sabrina the Teenage Witch in a series called The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Due to the success of these series, Archie Comics announced a new imprint in May 2015 called Archie Horror, to which the two titles were connected. The next Archie Horror title released in 2017 was Jughead: The Hunger, in which resident glutton Jughead discovers he's a man-eating werewolf.
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