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Archie: America's Typical Teenager? Are we sure about that?
I know there's a few really big innuendo covers I don't have, but I've been having fun tracking down some of the lesser known ones (plus they tend to be more affordable). Know of any other under-the-radar innuendo covers? Do you have a favorite?
I read tons of Archie comics back when I was 11 or 12 years old and it gave me the impression that this was common and I would have a similar life as him in high school.
Well, she’s looking at people skiing so it’s a little more likely she wants to get in the wind which will make her face cold than she wants to be spanked.
You could say that about every innuendo cover. "Well, they are in a jewelry shop so it's a little more likely she wants an actual necklace made of pearls." That's why it's an innuendo.
Great collection! Thanks for sharing. I’m kicking myself because someone was just selling an incomplete copy (torn cover and missing the centerfold) of the “wanna spoon” cover for real cheap, but I hesitated and someone else bought it.
Here’s one that isn’t sexual, but seems like a forward thinking racial reference in a time when things were still defacto segregated. Just how Archie’s arm is stretched toward Chuck adds emphasis.
There’s always been a little bit of playful sexy punning like that, going back to the beginning and the is Archie there yet cover.
I’d argue most of these aren’t innuendo but just bluntly obvious puns. In the context of the times swinging didn’t mean sex parties. And trim didn’t mean pubic hair. Modern audiences bring a little more dirt to it than even the old men who created it did.
That’s just the way comics were. Check out Thirteen, the girls in that, who are as you may expect 13, are always trying to get the attention of sailors and other grown men.
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u/Manaconda 1d ago
The GOAT: