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[Porcelain]

[Enufstuff]

My favorite comic books from the 50's were Archie, Betty & Veronica, Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Blondie & Dagwood, Dennis the Menace and Katie Keene. What was fun with Katie Keene comics was the page where you could draw and design your own

Katie Keene fashions. Another one was Casper the Friendly Ghost.

[SoCal Bred]

Archie and Dennis the Menace were my favorites.......my older brother was into Mad magazine with Alfred E. Neuman.  He was also into the 'scary' movie magazines with  black and white photos of Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula, creature from the Black Lagoon, etc., he would enjoy sneaking up on my sister and I and flashing the picture in front of our eyes making us scream, brothers!

[World Traveler]

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@Enufstuff wrote:

My favorite comic books from the 50's were Archie, Betty & Veronica, Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Blondie & Dagwood, Dennis the Menace and Katie Keene. What was fun with Katie Keene comics was the page where you could draw and design your own

Katie Keene fashions. Another one was Casper the Friendly Ghost.

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@Enufstuff LOVED Little Lulu. 

[MaverDaver]

as a little girl (perhaps 8-10) I can remember going into our neighborhood deli.  The comic books were in the back of the store.  I would sit on the floor and read my favorites until I was up to date on the new arrivals. I would be in there for up to an hour if not longer.  The owner was a mean man but for some reason he never chased me out of the store.  Maybe he wasn't mean after all.

[GenXmuse]

I liked Archie and Richie Rich. I also read Mad and Cracked magazine. 
The comic book digests were the best!

[bobby5]

Archie was the best! I'd read them over & over again. I always wanted Archie to like Betty instead of Veronica😄

[Kalli]

I liked Archie, Veronica and Betty, too, but once my brother started reading Mad, I was over those.  Loved Spy vs Spy, Roger Kaputnik and the fold out page. 

When my son was in 6th-9th grades I had a difficult time getting him to read.  He only wanted to read Nintendo game guides (hints for solving the games) and comic books. It was such a source of frustration for me that I finally gave up and accepted it.  Along the way I found out his choice of independent reading was still enriching him. Fast foward to now, he's read more classics than I have and also reads quite a bit of nonfiction.

[Cakers3]

There was a "Comic Code" established in 1954 which outlined what could and could not be printed in comic books.

While most ignored the code, it remained through the beginning of the 21st century

If people think comics are not violent today, think again.

[Cakers3]

I read Archie because my sisters bought them.  Once they outgrew them, so did I.

I remember buying Little Lulu and Nancy each time a new edition came out.

I never had a subscription to any comic books.  I didn't even know comic books had subscriptions!!