Archie : 2010 Sunday Funnies

2010-Jul-16 Columbus OH

Robert William Montana (1920 – 1975) American comic strip artist who created the original likenesses for characters published by Archie Comics and in the newspaper strip Archie. Montana worked in advertising and pulp magazine illustration before entering the comic book field. While freelancing at True Comics and Fox Comics, he created an adventure strip about four teenage boys and tried to sell it without success. He also worked as an assistant to cartoonist Rube Goldberg.

When Montana started working for MLJ Comics he was asked to work up a high-school style comic-strip story, featuring Archie Andrews. Montana and Harry Lucey collaborated on the first comic book story which was featured in Pep Comics (Dec. 1941), and its popularity led MLJ to assign Montana to draw the first issue of Archie (Nov. 1942)

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