Tales from Riverdale was a comic digest

Digest size

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 magazine by Archie Comics Publications

Archie Comics

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, first printed in 2005. The format changed from the old books, with Tales from Riverdale having one multi-part feature story, and the rest reprints or new stories.

Issues

The first issue was in the form of a school scrapbook, depicting the events of the previous year at Archie

Archie Andrews (comics)

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's school, Riverdale High

Riverdale (Archie Comics)

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.

Issue #3 introduced the manga

Manga

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 version of Josie and the Pussycats.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch stories were also present in this digest, but in the format of the animated series

Sabrina: The Animated Series

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 and Sabrina: Friends Forever. In this version Sabrina was made 12 again by Repulsa, Queen of the Goblins, and the stories follow her adventures as a pre-teen. The Spooky Jar and Uncle Quigly were also present. Hilda Spellman

Hilda Spellman

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 and Zelda Spellman

Zelda Spellman

Zelda Spellman is a fictional character featured in the classic Archie comic book Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She is a full witch and lives in the fictional town of Greendale...

 were much younger too, most likely in their mid-to-late teens.

Wendy Weatherbee's first appearance was Tales From Riverdale Digest #10 (2006).

Issue #22 featured a story titled "Civil Chores." In this story Archie, Jughead

Jughead Jones

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and other friends go head to head on the issue of allowance: one side wanting their allowances raised, the other side saying no, but possibly with an ulterior motive. Originally meant to be a two-part story, it ended up as a three-part story.

Conclusion

The title ended in August 2010 with issue #39, along with all four regular-sized digest titles, to make room for two new double digest titles.