It's been about a month since we first
told you about the
July 31st release of
The Archie Show - The Complete Series on DVD. Our info came from
Amazon's pre-order listing, which at the time didn't have any cover art, or even a studio name listed. Right now it says "The Weinstein Company," which is affiliated with Genius Products, but we've got confirmation that it's actually Genius putting this out.
Some word filtered to us that our old friend Andy Mangels, who helped with extras for Warner's
Wonder Woman DVDs and produced the majority of BCI's releases, such as
He-Man and
She-Ra, was going to be behind the extras on
Archie as well. We got in touch with Andy, and he verified that it was indeed he who produced the extras for Genius, and that he expects a formal press release to be available at any time now which will provide the details. We tried to talk him into spilling the beans, but he held firm. However, we expect big things on those extras, because Andy's usually quite thorough, and he's quite familiar with Filmation properties like this one. We checked at the Genius web site, and that press release isn't there quite yet. But Amazon's got the
Archie artwork now, so here's a look at it:
