Tim Hanley

We're at WBUR City Space.

Wasn't supposed to be the biggest thing in the company.

Took it over within about five years.

I think when people think of Archie, they think of these teenagers having like typical adventures.

I'm using air quotes because...

They're not typical.

They're white, upper middle class teenagers.

It's Archie and Jughead having antics, Betty kind of mooning over him.

Betty shows up first.

She's in the first panel of the first story of Archie ever.

Betty has just moved into town and Archie is standing on a bicycle, riding it down the road to impress her.

Then he walks on a fence and falls off and goes through a painting her father has.

It's a whole slapstick situation that grows from there.

So Betty's the gaga for Archie from panel one.

And for about six months, Archie would just screw things up left and right and Betty would be, oh, it's okay, Archie, you're so wonderful.

It was fun, but it was fairly one note.

There wasn't a lot of conflict.

So a few months in, they introduced Veronica.

She moves from out of town.

She's wealthy.