Archie by Bob Montana from 1/20/1951 Very Early! Tabloid Size Color Page !

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Main Character

Archie

Item Description

Condition:Paper: some light tanning, some slightly trimmed, a few have archival reinforcement, otherwise: Very Good!

This is an "Archie_"_ SUNDAY PAGE BY BOB MONTANA. This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday Comics section of 1951. SIZE: TABLOID SIZE: 11 X 15 INCHES. PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, A FEW HAVE ARCHIVAL REINFORCEMENT, OTHERWISE: VERY GOOD! PULLED FROM BOUND VOLUMES! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic Strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!

Bob Montana
Born Robert William Montana

October 23, 1920

Stockton, California

Died January 4, 1975 (aged 54)

Meredith, New Hampshire

Nationality American

Area(s) Cartoonist, Artist

Spouse(s) Peggy (née Bertholet)

Robert William Montana (October 23, 1920 – January 4, 1975) was an American comic strip artist who created the original likenesses for characters published by Archie Comics and in the newspaper strip Archie.

Early Life
He was born in Stockton, California, to Roberta Pandolfini Montana and Ray Montana. Both were in show business: Roberta had been a Ziegfeld girl, and Ray performed banjo on the vaudeville circuit. As a result, Bob Montana traveled extensively as a child. He attended Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

According to Jane (Donahue) Murphy, a high school classmate of Montana's, Archie and his friends were based on people from their hometown and high school. She said Archie Andrews was based on Donahue's cousin, Richard Heffernan; Veronica Lodge on Agatha Popoff, the daughter of the local football team's doctor; Jughead Jones on a mischievous teen named "Skinny" Linnehan; while Miss Grundy may have been based on a high school typing and shorthand teacher named Lundstrom; however, Haverhill's school librarian is also believed to be the model for Grundy.

Career
While freelancing at True Comics and Fox Comics, Montana created an adventure strip about four teenage boys and tried to sell it without success.

Archie Comics
Main Article: Archie Comics

Montana started working for MLJ Comics (which would later be known as Archie Comics). He was asked to work up a high school style comic strip story, featuring Archie Andrews.

The success of the Archie and friends story in MLJ Comics' Pep Comics (Dec. 1941) led MLJ to assign Montana to draw the first issue of Archie (Nov. 1942). Montana was soon drawing the Archie comic strip, doing both the daily and Sunday strip, which over the next 35 years ran in over 750 newspapers.

Personal Life
Montana married Peggy Bertholet. They had two daughters, Lynn and Paige.

He died at age 54 of an apparent heart attack while cross-country skiing near his New Hampshire home.

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