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Jughead (comic book)

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Jughead
Cover to Jughead #1 (October 2015). Art by Erica Henderson.
Publication information
PublisherArchie Comics
Schedule(vol. 1-2)
Bimonthly
(vol. 3)
Monthly
FormatOngoing series
Publication date(vol. 1)
January 1949 – June 1987
(vol. 2)
August 1987 - September 2012
(vol. 3)
October 2015 - June 2017
No. of issues(vol. 1)
352
(vol. 2)
214
(vol. 3)
16
Main character(s)Jughead Jones
Creative team
Written byVarious (vol. 1-2)
Chip Zdarsky (vol. 3 #1-8)
Ryan North (vol. 3 #9-14)
Mark Waid (vol. 3 #15-16)
Ian Flynn (vol. 3 #15-16)
Artist(s)Various (vol. 1-2)
Erica Henderson (vol. 3 #1-6)
Derek Charm (vol. 3 #7-16)

Jughead (also known as Archie's Pal Jughead) is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Archie Comics character of the same name. The character first appeared in Pep Comics #22 (cover dated December 1941). Jughead proved to be popular enough to warrant his own self-titled ongoing comic book series which began publication in January 1949.

Publication history

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Cover to Archie's Pal Jughead #1 (January 1949).

Jughead first appeared in Pep Comics #22 in 1941 (also Archie's first appearance) and later grew into his own title Archie's Pal Jughead Comics in 1949, which also guest-starred Archie and his friends. Common story themes included Jughead's insatiable appetite for hamburgers, avoiding Big Ethel who has a crush on him and outsmarting his nemesis Reggie Mantle.

The cover title was shortened to Jughead with #122 in July 1965, though the indicia continued to list Archie's Pal Jughead until also changing in November's #126.[1][2] In #325, Cheryl Blossom made her second appearance after debuting in Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica that same month. The original Jughead series ended with #352 (June 1987).[3]

Jughead returned with a relaunched #1 in August 1987. With #46 (June 1993), the series was renamed Archie's Pal Jughead Comics, echoing the previous volume. In the same issue Jughead finds out that his mother is expecting a baby, and in #50, the baby girl, nicknamed "Jellybean" is born. The second volume ended in 2012 with issue #214.

A third series, titled Jughead, was released in October 2015 as part of Archie Comics' New Riverdale. It is written by Chip Zdarsky with artwork by Erica Henderson.[4] Derek Charm took over as regular artist starting with issue #7.[5]

First appearances

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Appearance Volume/Issue Number Month/Year
Moose Mason as Moose McGee (vol. 1) #1 January 1949
Midge Klump (vol. 1) #5 April 1951
Ethel Muggs (vol. 1) #84 May 1962
Forsythia "Jellybean" Jones (vol. 2) #50 November 1993
Trula Twyst (vol. 2) #89 February 1997

Collected Editions

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Volume 1

Title Issues Collected Publication Date
Archie's Pal Jughead Archives vol. 1 #1-8 March 25, 2015[6]
Archie's Pal Jughead Archives vol. 2 #9-16 June 15, 2016[7]

Volume 3

Title Issues Collected Publication Date
Jughead vol. 1 #1-6 28 July 2016
Jughead vol. 2 #7-11 16 March 2017
Jughead vol. 3 #12-16 16 November 2017

References

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  1. ^ "Archie's Pal Jughead #122 (Issue)".
  2. ^ "Jughead (Archie, 1965 Series)". Grand Comics Database.
  3. ^ "Jughead #352 (Issue)".
  4. ^ "Zdarsky and Henderson Set the Table with New JUGHEAD Series". 27 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Rising Star Derek Charm Joins Chip Zdarsky as Guest Artist on JUGHEAD this June!". 22 March 2016.
  6. ^ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Archies-Pal-Jughead-Archives-1/dp/1616551186 [bare URL]
  7. ^ "Archie's Pal Jughead Archives Volume 2 HC :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics".