Here’s how to tell the difference between Archie Giant Comics Festival, Archie 1000 Page Comics Explosion and Archie’s Favorite Christmas Comics:

• AFCC is slightly taller.

• A1KPCE is thickest.
• AGCF is midsized, with 400 pages to AFCC’s 480 and A1KPCE’s 1000.
• The “Favorite Comics” series (previously The Best of Archie Comics) is the most intensely curated of the lot, with text intros to the stories and info about which exact issues the stories came from. It also draws from every era of Archie, back to the early 1940s, while the “Giant” and “1000” page series tend to go back only as far as the late ‘50s.
• The 1000 Page books tend to have such generic Archie/Betty/Veronica cover art that I often can’t tell if I already have the latest one.
• Besides being an “Explosion,” Archie 1000 Page Comics has been a “Jamboree,” a “Bonanza,” a “Celebration” and a “Comics-Palooza.”

There. It’s only slightly easier than telling Betty from Veronica.