Phase 2: Radio Comics/Mighty Comics Group 1965-67
IN 1965, with the new popularity of Marvel Comics, Archie hired Superman creator Jerry Siegel to create a new line of comic book characters. It started off with the Shadow title being fairly straight, like the Fly and Jaguar, but after the second issue, writer Siegel had turned the Shadow into a camp hero, as he would with the rest of the line. There were plans on creating a title (also written by Siegel) starring Steel Sterling, but it never came out. Work for this title was used as backup material in Fly-Man
Although the indicia for these titles indicated the publisher as Radio Comics (and references in the comics referred to them as such), the covers said nothing until January 1966, when they proclaimed them part of the Mighty Comics Group (a possible attempt to capitalize on the popularity of "Marvel Comics Group"?).
Archie published several other titles under the Radio Comics imprint, including some of their "Madhouse Glads" titles, "Archie as Pureheart the Powerful/Captain Pureheart" and "Jughead as Captain Hero".
Archie's Belmont Books would reprint material from this period as High Camp Superheroes (#B50-695) in April 1966.
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