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Q&A with Bart Beaty, comics scholar and Archie expert

 
Professor Bart Beaty sat at his desk in the University of Calgary’s English department two years ago and embarked on a daunting literature review. Over 10 months, off and on, he read 1,000 Archie comics. Well, a few shy of 1,000. Beaty managed to collect all but four issues published between 1961 and 1969, the years…

 

 

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