Laugh Comics was a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 produced by Archie Comics

Archie Comics

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

 in two volumes, from 1946

1946 in comics

-European publications:* September 26: first issue of Le Journal de Tintin, featuring debut of the series Blake et Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs, and the Tintin story Le temple du soleil by Hergé....

 to 1987

1987 in comics

- Year overall :* Independent publishers continue to enter the comics arena, including Amazing, CFW Enterprises, Imperial Comics, Matrix Graphic Series, New Comics Group, and Rebel Studios...

 and 1987 to 1991. The showcased some of the early appearances of the "Archie gang." Beginning with issue #145, Josie began making semi-regular appearances (some of her earliest), with art by Dan DeCarlo

Dan DeCarlo

Daniel S. DeCarlo was an American cartoonist best known as the artist who developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and establishing the publisher's house style...

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Publication history

The title began with issue #20, continuing the numbering of Black Hood Comics

Black Hood Comics

Black Hood Comics was the name of an American anthology comic book series published by MLJ Magazines Inc., more commonly known as MLJ Comics, for eleven issues between Winter 1943 and Summer 1946...

. Laugh Comics vol. 1 concluded with issue #400 in 1987.

A second volume, titled simply Laugh, appeared a few months later, lasting 29 issues until August 1991.