Observations from Archie’s Sunday Finest: Classic Newspaper Strips from the 1940s and 1950s by Bob Montana (IDW Books, 2012).

Reggie’s surname was once spelled Mantel, not Mantle.

Archie and Li’l Abner exist in the same universe. There are references to a Sadie Hawkins-type “patch dance” and Lena the Hyena.

Archie nearly coined a musical general three decades early: There’s a dance event called the “Hep-Hop.

Bob Montana apparently created the gesture where Miss Grundy gets so flabbergasted by her students’ behavior that her white bun hair-do flies off her head like a wig.

The Archie Andrews radio series, which ran on various networks for a decade, 1943-1953, has an effect on the Archie comic strip, as when the cartoon Jughead mutters “Boy-o-boy-o-boy” a la Harlan Stone on the radio shows.