Oh, those crazy love sick teens! From a piece in USA Today...
"Archie was everyman," says author and comic historian Craig Yoe. "Or everyman's fantasy, anyway, having two gorgeous girls — one blonde, one brunette — hotly vying for his affections."
That sexual subtext — "Betty or Veronica?" is a common fanboy question — runs throughout Archie's history, up to the recent "imaginary" story lines in which Archie marries Veronica in one story, and Betty in the next.
"The breast size and cleavage factor of Betty and Veronica changed through the years," Yoe says. "I wasn't able to precisely correlate the rising and the falling of these matters to the stock market or I'd be a wealthy man instead of a cartoonist and comics historian.
"But there's no denying that there is indeed a teen sexual subtext to the stories and art. I instinctively knew this when I read Archie as an adolescent. This sizzle helps sell the steak, I'm sure."
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