Beloved Comic Book Character Archie to Die in Upcoming Issue
Apr-09-2014

Archie Andrews, everyone's favorite, freckled denizen of Riverdale, will die a hero's death in an upcoming issue of Life With Archie, as he sacrifices his life to save a friend's, the CBC reports.

The story will help conclude the Life With Archie series, which publisher Archie Comics relaunched in 2010 to follow the lives of Archie, his love interests Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge, best friend Jughead Jones and frenemy Reggie Mantle after they've graduated from high school and college.

"We've been building up to this moment since we launched Life With Archie five years ago and knew that any book that was telling the story of Archie's life as an adult had to also show his final moment," publisher Jon Goldwater said in a statement.

Archie will die in issue Number 36, which is set for release this July. The subsequent installment will jump ahead a year and examine how Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Reggie have dealt with the death of their friend. Archie has been a comic-book fixture since his introduction in Pep Comics in 1941.

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