A Golden Age Character Reappears in an Archie Comic | Preview
Today’s preview of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #322 features the return of a Golden Age character, Fran Frazer, a globe-trotting photojournalist who solved mysteries in Top-Notch Comics in th 1940s. The original Fran was kinda hard-boiled, as teen humor wasn’t the only focus of MLJ Comics (which later became Archie) at the time; the superhero The Black Hood also appeared in the same comics. Fran recently popped up in World of Archie Digest #136, and now she’s back in Riverdale again to help the gang figure out who stole Ms. Grundy’s final exam. We have a preview of that story as well as a complete classic story for your Friday reading pleasure. The digest will be out next Wednesday. Enjoy!
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About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor, a newspaper reporter, and assistant to the mayor of a small city. In addition to editing GC4K, she is a regular columnist for SLJ, a contributing editor at ICv2, an editor at Smash Pages, and a writer for Publishers Weekly. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.
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