Pep Comics introduced a character from Archie Comics.
Issues #218 (June 1968) and #227 (March 1969) featured Archie and his friends as pop band 'The Archies' on the covers, a fictional band which was later put together for real, also as The Archies
 Over the next few years, humor strips would slowly ease the costumed heroes and adventure tales out of Pep Comics, and Archie himself would become Pep Comics's and the Archie Comics imprint's most popular character;Issue #26 (April 1942) had a 'Remember Pearl Harbor' cover, with The Shield, Dusty and The Hangman ringing the Liberty Bell while a Japanese and a German soldier were tied up in the bell-rope

