Yes, it's 1976, and if any comic strip was eager to latch on to trends, it was Archie!!Go ahead...try and explain to kids today about the CB craze of the mid-1970s. I dare you.
of course, Archie being Archie, he was pretty white bread and "listen to the man" about this hot new outlaw trend:
How big was Archie glomming onto this trend?
Archie Comics apparently had a "CB Editor"!! Really!!Of course, just to prove that this is 1976, even the ads in this year were time-capsule worthy:
Ah, mood rings...Somehow pet rocks are forgotten in Archie #256 (1976)
"Go ahead...try and explain to kids today about the CB craze of the mid-1970s. I dare you."
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Oh, dude, CB was so much more than that! It was an entire outsider/outlaw culture hidden within our own...it spawned movies and TV series and hit pop songs and...
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