Above is the front cover of Archie Comics #112, dated August 1960 (the month I was born). It shows Archie studying a chess position! I just bought what appears to be the only copy available for sale on the Internet for the princely sum of $8.35, including shipping. Thank you, Bill and Jerry Wall, the publishers of
White Knight Review! I learned of the comic from an article in the May/June issue of
White Knight Review, a chess magazine that is available for free on the Internet
here. It's a good read - check it out!
UPDATE: Here's an interesting article by Kerry Lawless (with a surname like that, let's hope he's never a criminal defendant),
"Chess In Comic Books." There's no shortage of chess-themed comic book covers, it seems.
2 comments:
It's about as cool as "Sugar Sugar."
Hey, "Sugar Sugar" is listed at No. 63 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar,_Sugar That song was very confusing to me. As you know, it was a huge hit, and was performed by the Archies, who were a cartoon band on TV. I couldn't understand how cartoon characters could sing a song.
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