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Archie Comics and Oni Press Begin New Era in 2026 with a Publishing Partnership

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Oni Press and Archie Comic Publications, Inc. have revealed an ambitious and wide-ranging publishing partnership that will mark a milestone new beginning for Archie, Betty and Veronica, Jughead, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, and the rest of Riverdale’s most iconic characters across a distinctly original and stylistically reimagined slate of monthly comic series, original graphic novels, and prestige collections honoring the full breadth and influence of Archie Comics’ nearly nine-decade history. 

The joy of being young. The pain of growing up. In 2026, the fantastical, pure-pop existence of “America’s Favorite Teenager” will be thrown into overdrive as Archie Andrews reaches a once-in-a-lifetime crossroads between then and now, daydream and reality, the heat of the moment and the vast expanse of eternity, across three daring new monthly series from some of the most brilliantly innovative creators working in the comics industry today: multiple Eisner Award nominee W. Maxwell Prince, Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko, and Harvey Award winner Patrick Horvath, working alongside riveting artists, including multiple Eisner Award winner Fábio Moon, Nick Cagnetti, Eisner Award nominee Kano, and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook.

Timed to coincide with the 85th anniversary of Archie’s’ first appearance in Pep Comics #22 in 1941, the new partnership will officially begin in Fall 2026 with a new slate of ongoing, monthly comics series:

ARCHIE #1
Written by W. Maxwell Prince 
Art by Fábio Moon and Nick Cagnetti 
September 2026

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH #1 
Written by Corinna Bechko 
Art by Kano 
October 2026

ARCHIE IN HELL #1 
Written by Patrick Horvath
Art by Tyler Crook
November 2026

The new Archie line will be editorially overseen by Oni Press Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn with additional contributions from Senior Editor Bess Pallares and Editor Megan Brown with guidance from Archie Comics‘ own Senior Director of Editorial Jamie Rotante and Editor & Art Director Vincent Lovallo. Full creative details on each series are being kept under tight wraps, but readers and retailers can expect to hear more as Oni Press and Archie begin a unified marketing and communications campaign for their new slate that will include key appearances at the annual ComicsPRO Industry Conference in Glendale, CA and San Diego Comic-Con 2026 in the months ahead. 

Following the debut of the all-new Archie #1 in September 2026, the unprecedented publishing partnership between Oni Press and Archie Comics will continue as Oni releases a wave of brand-new collections spanning all eras of Archie’s history in variety of formats – including compact digest editions, deluxe hardcovers and omnibi, and comprehensive box sets – that will spotlight contributions from the characters’ original creators John L. Goldwater, Bob Montana, and Vic Bloom, alongside those from a decades-spanning cast of seminal writers and artists including Dan DeCarlo, Veronica Fish, Francesco Francavilla, Erica Henderson, Stan Goldberg, Tom King, Paul Kupperberg, Dan Parent, Samm Schwartz, Fiona Staples, Kelly Thompson, Michael Uslan, Mark Waid, Chip Zdarksy, and many more.  

In 2027, the line will expand further will the debut of an all-new line of middle grade and young adult graphic novels – set in their own, accessible continuity outside of the core Oni Press publishing line – that will feature contributions from some of the most acclaimed and recognizable talents writing and illustrating for those audiences today. More details on those titles will be revealed in mid-2026. 

Coming up, Archie will next appear on the small screen in a live-action horror series Afterlife with Archie on Disney+  followed by the big screen in a new live-action feature film written by Eisner Award winner Tom King and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for Universal Pictures. 

This is the third publishing partnership Oni Press has announced in recent years. Along with Archie, Oni is also publishing comics under the classic EC Comics imprint and Matt Kindt’s Flux House imprint debuts in Summer 2026. 

Preview: Archie’s Christmas Spectacular

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Archie’s Christmas Spectacular

Script: Dan Parent
Pencils: Dan Parent
Inks: Bob Smith
Colors: Glenn Whitmore
Letters: Jack Morelli
Main Cover: Dan Parent
Retro Variant Cover: Dan DeCarlo
On Sale Date: 12/3
32-page, full color comic
$4.99 U.S.

Celebrate the season Archie style, now packed with over 30 PAGES of content, including a BRAND NEW STORY! The North Pole High Christmas Dance is approaching, and two girls want to take Archie as their date—no, not Betty and Veronica, but instead Santa’s daughter Noelle Claus and his holiday helper Sugarplum! When Jingles the Elf decides he’s going to take Veronica as his date, Riverdale High is going to invade the North Pole. If there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that high school can feel the same everywhere!

Archie's Christmas Spectacular

Archie Comics in February 2026 Features Space Adventures and more!

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ARCHIE & FRIENDS: SPACE ADVENTURES (ONE-SHOT)

Script: Dan Parent
Pencils: Dan Parent
Inks: Bob Smith
Letters: Jack Morelli
Colors: Glenn Whitmore
Main Cover: Dan Parent
Variant Covers: Andrew Pepoy & Jason Millet, Samm Schwartz
On Sale Date: 2/25
32-page, full color comic
$4.99 U.S.

Archie and his friends go INTERGALACTIC in this BRAND NEW Space-Age story! When Archie and the gang gets ready to head into space on a rocket Dilton built, everything goes smoothly, until the spacecraft enters a realm where it becomes lost. With the teens LOST IN SPACE, it’s going to take someone out of this world to save them—someone like COSMO THE MIGHTY MARTIAN! All that plus over 30 pages of intergalactic adventures!

VERONICA #23: FACSIMILE EDITION

Script: Michael Gallagher
Art: Tim Kennedy, Dan Parent, Jon D’Agostino
Main Cover: Rex Lindsey
Variant Cover: Harry Lucey
On Sale Date: 2/11
32-page, full color comic
$4.99 U.S

IT’S YOUR LUCKY DAY, because you get to revisit some of Veronica’s funniest stories from the 1990s! From an over-the-top Miss Popularity campaign to a fantastical retelling of “The Prince and the Pauper,” there’s never a dull moment with Riverdale’s favorite rich girl, Veronica Lodge. All that plus lots more in VERONICA #23, faithfully reprinted in a full-facsimile edition!

ARCHIE COMICS DIGEST #4: SPRING BREAK

Script: Various
Art: Various
Cover: Dan Parent, Rosario “Tito” Peña
On Sale Date: 2/18
96-page, full color digest
$9.99 U.S.

The birds are chirping and flowers are in bloom. That can only mean one thing . . . SPRING BREAK is here! Sunnier days are ahead with Archie and the Gang, and with it comes plenty of flowery fun, dating dilemmas, and picnic pandemonium!

The Army of Darkness Invades Riverdale This February!

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Dynamite Entertainment and Archie Comics have announced the creative team for their next fun-filled cataclysmic crossover, as Erik Burnham and Bill Galvan take Archie and Ash to hell and back in Archie x The Army of Darkness kicking off February 2026!

Dynamite and Archie now come locked and loaded with the thrilling creative team for this maniacal mashup. Writer Erik Burnham is back in the driver’s seat of Ash and the Army of Darkness mythos, now bringing in the riotous Riverdale cast to up the ante. This series follows his work a few years back on Army of Darkness vs. Reanimator: Necronomicon Rising. His deep and beloved bibliography on top franchises like Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Godzilla, and more makes him the perfect match for the Archie gang.

To really capture the Archie side of the equation and its timeless aesthetic known around the world for 85 years, editor Matt Idelson has paired Burnham with the peerless Bill Galvan. The two-decades Archie Comics veteran artist will perfectly capture the iconic look of Riverdale, with the crossover’s major twist!

Ashley J. Williams has found himself doomed to battle against the forces of evil, over and over again, whether he likes it or not. Whether he’s clocking in at S-Mart or hurling through the multiverse, the cycle of violence always follows him and repeats itself. That is, until he finds himself in the picturesque town of Riverdale. This bewilderingly wholesome community seems to break the curse that has plagued him ever since he first crossed paths with otherworldly evil all those years ago.

This serene peace all comes crashing down when an over-curious teenager by the name of Archie Andrews stumbles upon a copy of the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, accidentally summoning the horrifying Deadites once more! Ash will find himself unexpectedly allied with the good townsfolk of Riverdale, fighting to hold back the undead hordes long enough for Archie to undo what he’s unwittingly done.

The series is complemented by a crop of clean-cut covers from signature artists of the Dynamite and Archie libraries. Galvan, Robert Hack, Laura Braga, Craig Cermak, and Stuart Sayger all contribute variants.

Fans can also get a premium mystery blind bag on the premiere issue, packed with three limited editions of the debut selected randomly from a range of stunning variants. Two additional original covers by Galvan and Francesco Francavilla are only available from the bag, as well as multiple line art variants and colored blanks.

Preview: Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular #1

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Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular #1

(W) Dan Parent (A) Dan Parent

Halloween may be over, but it‘s monsters vs. Pussycats in this spectacular issue, now packed with over 30 PAGES of content, including a BRAND NEW STORY! The South Side Serpents are once again looking to toughen up their image, and they’re trying to last overnight in a haunted section of the woods, where witches have been rumored to once exist. But when the Pussycats arrive on the scene, more than their musical pasts are called into question!

Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular #1

Preview: Archie vs Minor Threats #3

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Archie vs Minor Threats #3

Writer: Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Timmy Heague
Artist: Scott Koblish
Colorist: Hi-Fi
Letterer: Nate Piekos
Cover Artist: Scott Koblish

The villains of Minor Threats and iconic teenagers of Archie Comics have switched places!

Prepare to experience these characters like you’ve NEVER seen them before! Frankie Follis aka Playtime has gone from being Twilight City’s Queenpin of Crime to becoming Riverdale’s Queenbee teenager. The Five Fingers of Merlin has granted her the childhood she never had, void of crime, where the only score to be had is winning the Riverdale High Talent Show! The prize? Ultimate cosmic power! New villains from Twilight City have their eye on taking home the prize, a group of super crooks led by none other than Archie Andrews aka Gingersnap! Riverdale’s most pure hearted teenager breaks bad!

Archie vs Minor Threats #3

Preview: Archie’s Halloween Spectacular #1

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Archie’s Halloween Spectacular #1

(W) Dan Parent (A) Dan Parent

This ain’t no trick, we’re TREATing you with a Halloween spectacular that’s BIGGER than ever! Now packed with over 40 PAGES of content, including a BRAND NEW STORY! The South Side Serpents are trying to recruit new members — and what better time to start their initiation than Halloween? This story is filled to the brim with tricks! Featuring fan-favorite characters and returning new faces like MEDUSA DOOM!

Archie's Halloween Spectacular #1

The Army of Darkness Invades Riverdale!

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As part of a new multi-title deal for a slate of blockbuster pop culture collaborations, Dynamite Entertainment and Archie Comics are going straight to Hell with a cataclysmic crossover between two of their biggest franchises: Archie and the Army of Darkness!

Dynamite Entertainment

The idyllic town of Riverdale has faced all manner of unexpected guests and multiversal threats, but never quite like this. In the forthcoming comic book series, Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and the rest of the gang will battle the source of all evil as the Army of Darkness and the Necronomicon lay siege to the Town with Pep. Lucky for them, the one and only Ash Williams, equipped with his trademark wit and boomstick, is along for the ride as they beat back the monstrous hordes . . . or die trying.

The first Archie/Dynamite collaboration was the tongue-in-cheek team-up of some of comicdom’s most influential women in Red Sonja and Vampirella Meet Betty and Veronica. Available now in two trade paperback volumes, the story offers fans a fun link to Amy Chu’s preceding Red Sonja run, gorgeous artwork by Maria Laura Sanapo, a thrilling interdimensional epic, unforgettable interactions between the mismatched icons, and  memorable cover gags. The success of this historic clash of characters set the stage for the new slate, with more details to be announced.

Preview: Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Magic Unleashed

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Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Magic Unleashed

(W) Craig Boldman (A) Steven Butler

Now packed with 30 PAGES of story content, including a BRAND-NEW STORY! Sabrina’s greatest foe, the evil witch Mother Striga, is back and this time she’s enlisted the aid of the wicked scientist Mad Doc Doom and his daughter Medusa! Will the powers of science be too much for Sabrina’s magic, and who can she turn to for help? Plus, a SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION VARIANT COVER featuring the art from the very first appearance of Sabrina in comics!

Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Magic Unleashed

Preview: From the World of Minor Threats: Archie vs. Minor Threats #1

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From the World of Minor Threats: Archie vs. Minor Threats #1

(W) Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Timmy Heague (A) Scott Koblish
32 pages
$4.99

Not a hoax! Not a dream! The fun-loving teens of Riverdale collide with the crooked super-criminals of Twilight City in the most bombastic crossover of the year! It’s your favorite high schoolers forced to FIGHT your favorite costumed villains in a story that will have lasting ramifications on all involved!

ARCHIE, BETTY, VERONICA, JUGHEAD and friends are on on their way to a field trip to Twilight City when the magical meddling of SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH lands them in the seedy underbelly of Redport, the most villainous part of town controlled by Frankie Follis AKA PLAYTIME and her gang of MINOR THREATS. Archie and the others suddenly find themselves drafted into both sides of the war Playtime is waging against magic users in her turf. One thing is for sure… blood and milkshakes will be spilled!

Issue one of the four issue mini is written by Minor Threats co-creators Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum with Timmy Heague (Archie Comics’ Fear the Funhouse: Toybox of Terror) and art by Scott Koblish (Deadpool).

From the World of Minor Threats: Archie vs. Minor Threats #1
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