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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...folks who register any of the countless words or names many companies have dibs on. That's what happened to David Sams, a Los Angeles man who registered veronica.org for his 22-month-old daughter. Archie Comics threatened to sue, claiming it had the right to Veronica--and Archie, Jughead and Betty. The company backed down, but the bill passed by the House would make it easier for a company in Archie Comics' position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Your Name Isn't Yours | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...mystery. But for the grownup reader, it's difficult not to interpret Tintin's constant motion as an evasion of mortality. Tintin's metabolism, like that of all other children's book characters, is governed by a simple law: Stop moving and you grow old and die. Archie and Jughead keep driving around suburbia for the very reason that once they stop, settle down and get married, they become subject to the same laws as the rest of us--baldness, fatness and disillusion. The youthful complexion of the comic book character, who never seems to age a single year...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Endpaper: Tintin | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...tree for their first kiss. No kidding.) It makes sense that O'Haver, who evokes the retro spirit with such expert elan, has signed with Universal Pictures to direct a movie of the Archie comic book. We can't wait to see if Archie gets to pining over Jughead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Objects Of Our Affection | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Smith avoids drugs, attends church weekly and wants to marry his girlfriend and have children. "The way I grew up? Talking about sex but not having it," he says. So why is Chasing Amy raunchy in the extreme, crudely anticlerical and sexually flamboyant ("Archie was the bitch, and Jughead was the butch," insists one character)? Only a boomer fixated on the Brady Bunch would find it puzzling. "I'm a jaded optimist looking behind the doors of small-town America," says Smith. "My generation believes we can do almost anything. My characters are free: no social mores keep them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY GENERATION BELIEVES WE CAN DO ALMOST ANYTHING. | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...maybe, in his major address on education reform last week, he articulates a vision of a state where "the superintendent of Riverdale, where Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jughead lived, for example, could also assume management of Smallville, home of Superboy...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Massachusetts 2000 | 10/29/1991 | See Source »

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