There were Archie cartoons when I was a kid: The first ones I remember had the
Riverdale teens as a pop band (“Sugar, Sugar!”) around the same time as the
Monkees, but I don’t recall any time travel then, even if it was directed by Hal
Sutherland, soon-to-be director of the animated Star Trek. However, I did spot a later
three-part time travel story in Archie’s Weird Mysteries that ran in 2000
(“Archie’s Date with Fate,” “Alternate Riverdales,” and “Teen Out of Time”).
Free will and predestination aside, I vow to completely redesign my time travel invention
to make it safer.