I’d be pretty surprised if the Archie writers did that. I’ve been reading every Archie comic from the first printing, and they are pretty grounded in reality. Real musician names, real films, real actors, real fashion designers, etc. The panel this comic is from is only the 3rd time they’ve written a story dedicated to the “hop patch” dances between 1940 and 1950 (and that’s including all 4 comics series and the 3 yearly publications being released at the time featuring Archie). That’s a pretty long window with multiple artists and writers, who would have to remember the same parody of sadie hawkins. I’m more inclined to lean towards “wikipedia doesn’t know everything” than the Archie writers invented it. I do have a 90 year old grandpa still surviving, maybe I’ll reach out.
Edit: another example of the internet being ignorant, there is no record on the internet (that I can find) of the specific style of public washing machines that were depicted in the 1940s version of a coin-op laundromat within the comics. So either the Archie artists went to the trouble of inventing a never before seen style of a brand new technology in the era, or the internet simply has blind spots in our history.
I’d be pretty surprised if the Archie writers did that. I’ve been reading every Archie comic from the first printing, and they are pretty grounded in reality. Real musician names, real films, real actors, real fashion designers, etc. The panel this comic is from is only the 3rd time they’ve written a story dedicated to the “hop patch” dances between 1940 and 1950 (and that’s including all 4 comics series and the 3 yearly publications being released at the time featuring Archie). That’s a pretty long window with multiple artists and writers, who would have to remember the same parody of sadie hawkins. I’m more inclined to lean towards “wikipedia doesn’t know everything” than the Archie writers invented it. I do have a 90 year old grandpa still surviving, maybe I’ll reach out.
Edit: another example of the internet being ignorant, there is no record on the internet (that I can find) of the specific style of public washing machines that were depicted in the 1940s version of a coin-op laundromat within the comics. So either the Archie artists went to the trouble of inventing a never before seen style of a brand new technology in the era, or the internet simply has blind spots in our history.
Or the artist just drew something out of their imagination.