The Best of Archie's Mad House

by Dan DeCarlo

Published 23 August 2011
Hey Humbugs! Don't Panic! It's madder, it's crazier, it's sicker, it trumps them all! You'll crack up with this lampooning book! Brilliantly combine satire magazines, super-hero send-ups, monster magazines, sexy teenage girls ala Betty and Veronica, surrealism, beatniks, hippies, and wackiness and you've got the inimitable Madhouse. Madhouse was the birthplace of the bewitching Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Captain Sprocket, and the comic host with the most, Clyde Didit. Archie's best artists, Dan "Betty and Veronica" DeCarlo, Sam "Jughead" Schwartz, and even cartoonists like Wally Wood filled Madhouse's pages with the laughs, lunacy, and nutty fun — oh, and hot teenage chicks!
Craig Yoe collects the best of the best stories and introduces Madhouse with rare art and behind-the-scenes secrets.
As with the entire line of Yoe Books, the reproduction techniques employed strive to preserve the look and feel of expensive vintage comics. Painstakingly remastered, enjoy the closest possible recreation of reading these comics when first released.

Dan DeCarlo was the dean of Archie artists. Aside from Bob Montana, no single artist is more associated with the teenagers of Riverdale High. Beginning his career at Archie in the mid 1950s, DeCarlo soon became the main artist on Betty and Veronica, and drew every character at one time or another in his nearly 50-year career with Archie. Dan DeCarlo was also the first artist ever to draw Josie and Sabrina, establishing the visual looks of these two long-running and fondly remembered characters.
Reproduced from the original art to ensure the highest possible quality reproduction, the stories in this collection are from what is generally regarded as one of DeCarlo’s best periods — the mid 1950s to the early 1970s. Each story was handpicked by DeCarlo connoisseurs’ and has been re-colored to match the flavor of how it was originally published.