Yes. That is the title of today's magazine.
I've decided that the Archie digests qualify as magazines, as they're periodicals but they very often follow a less-than-monthly schedule. They're also about the same length as a lot of the magazines I've been reading for the project, so for the time being that's where they'll fall when I decide to read and blog one.
The coolest thing about this issue is that it's dated the same year and month that I was born. Looking at the copy I have (the cover up there is from the GCD) is a sobering fact. It looks on the outside like I feel on the inside some days!
This is a nice collection of old reprint stuff, things that don't get reprinted quite as often anymore as they're starting to seem dated. That said, many of the attempts at looking at the Women's Lib movement still resonate somewhat, though from a contemporary perspective, the resonance is a bit more sinister. I wonder, sometimes, about the attitudes evinced by the boys of Riverdale toward the objects (a word I use purposefully here) of their desires. Sometimes they verge on the unpleasant. Thank goodness the boys seem to have learned a few things in the 40+ years since this comic came out, keeping up with the social and cultural movements that have shaped society. Considering they're fairly one-dimensional comic characters, they show a lot more character these days than a lot of actual people who lived through the same changes. *sigh*
Onward!
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