MLJ / Archie Superheroes

Radio Comics began like many similar companies in the 1940's, printing a number of titles, many of them staring superhero characters. However one of their non-superhero characters proved so popular that before the end of the decade, the company had renamed itself after him: Archie Comics.

There is an excellent site devoted to the Archie / MLJ characters here.

Golden Age Archie Heroes

Silver Age Archie Heroes

Noticing the late 1950's upswing in popularity of superhero characters published by other companies (such as D.C.), Archie Comics attempted to jump on the bandwagon by creating a number of new characters (The Fly, The Jaguar and a new version of the Shield, Lancelot Strong, among them). A few years later Archie created a new imprint specifically for their superheroes, Mighty Comics (a.k.a. MLJ), which along with the new characters, also revived a number of the Golden Age ones. However Mighty Comics didn't last, and in the early 1980's yet another imprint was briefly created, Red Circle comics. Like MLJ, it was soon reabsorbed into the main Archie line.

Archie also published the adaption of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, as well as a Zen, Intergalactic Ninja title.

!mpact Comics

In the late 1980's DC briefly licensed the rights to do versions of the Archie superheroes under their !mpact imprint. These versions were sufficiently different as to warrant their own entries.

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