Archie Comics doing a horror comic isn't unusual...
....but AfterLife with Archie, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or even Jughead: the Hunger this ain't!
And it's not exactly the usual wholesome Archie fare, eh?
Written by Frank Doyle, penciled by Stan Goldberg, and inked by Jon D'Agastino, this lead story from Archie's Chilling Adventures in Sorcery Told by Sabrina #2 (1972) was their contribution to the industry-wide "monsterization" brought on by the loosening of restraints against monsters by the Comics Code Authority in 1971.
Why it was deliberately-done in the Archie "house style" remains a mystery to this day!
(To be fair, when Archie jumped on the Batman/James Bond fad of the mid-1960s, their comics featuring the Riverdale crew as either super-heroes or spies were also illustrated in the humorous "house style"!)
After two issues, the book was reformatted as a realistically-illustrated traditional horror comic, running nine more issues.
Sabrina didn't appear in them...
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