Archie (also known as Archie Comics) is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Archie Comics character of the same name. The character first appeared in Pep Comics #22 (cover dated December 1941). Archie proved to be popular enough to warrant his own self-titled ongoing comic book series which began publication in the Winter of 1942 and ran until June 2015. A second series began publication in July 2015.