Archie Giant Series # 147

★★★★★

Great Comic Book

The Archie Giant Series from #1-35 (December, 1954 - October, 1965) was a series of special issues that would focus on a certain theme (Christmas) or spotlight a character (Katy Keene, Betty and Veronica, Jughead, etc). The Giant was a reference to the issues having more pages than average. There were no issues #36-135 and its unclear why the numbers were added. The series resumes with #136-251 (December, 1965 - October, 1976) but by the mid-1970s it had the standard size of 32 pages per issue. There were no numbers #252-451 and once again its unclear why they were added. The series resumed publication with #452-632 (December, 1976 - July, 1992). The series was then canceled and its last regular features "Archie and Friends", "Betty and Veronica Spectacular" and "World of Archie" were granted their own titles.

As with all Archie comics, the Archie Giant Series is fun to read.