MLJ/Radio Comics?Archie and Red Circle -and Links for other Archie Posts

Bristol Book Centre on Gloucester Road, Bristol in the 1970s was a place full of old pulp books but also a modest comic collection. The place was run by a rather eccentric American lady who was once an opera singer (and, yes, she demonstrated her voice once or twice). It was here that I saw and fell in love with characters in comics published by Archie (Radio Comics/MLJ).

Sadly, I never got to write a series with any of them!

I have a full run of the 1960s Mighty Crusaders and a few other Radio Comics titles that popped up.

I posted about MLJ/Radio Comics reprints in the Alan Class line here:

https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-mlj-guys-at-class-groovy.html

And, of course, my all time favourite 1960s story Too Many Super Heroes here:

https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-return-of-too-many-super-heroes.html

I have a full run of the 1980s Red Circle Comics until some idiot messed up there and, I think, all of the DC Comics iterations of the characters when on loan!  

The books above are The Shield Golden Age reprints; The Fly reprints and some of the modern Archies in trade. Sadly, neither of the local comic shops in Bristol (UK) were willing to order the titles so I need to check at some point what I am missing -is Archie still publishing the characters in new stories?

I've also interviewed Holly Golightly, Tania Del Rio, Bill Galvan, Nancy Silberkleit and others including Paul Kupperberg. Although most of the interviews are in print the CBO interviews went with the old WordPress CBO in 2011!   However Galvan's interview I recently republished https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2025/09/cbo-chats-with-bill-galvan.html  and if you are interested in Paul Kupperberg's interview check it out here

: https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2025/09/comic-bits-online-q-paul-kupperberg.html

Anyway...those trades are calling me for some 0145hrs reading and eye-strain.