| Mr. Weatherbee | |
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Real Name |
Waldo Weatherbee |
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First Appearance |
Pep Comics #27 (May 1942) |
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Original Publisher |
MLJ |
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Created by |
Bob Montana |
Origin[]
Waldo Weatherbee is the principal of Riverdale High School, where Archie Andrews is a student and Miss Grundy is a teacher. To Riverdale students and (most) staff, he is commonly called Mr. Weatherbee, due to his authoritative position. Sometimes Archie and his friends playfully call him "The Bee".
Mr. Weatherbee is a heavyset, no-nonsense man who acts as a bit of a fuddy duddy, including wearing pince-nez eyeglasses perched on the tip of a vermiform nose, he also sports a toupee that perpetually flies off whenever he is upset or startled. He tries to put on an authoritative demeanor but is in many ways a clueless. Mr. Weatherbee is sometimes stated as having once been in the United States military, and saw conflict in war.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Pep Comics # 27, 35, 41, 48-50, 52, 54, 59-60, 64, 67-68, 144, 164
- Jackpot Comics #5
- Life With Archie #6, 24, 27, 29, 35, 38
- Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #5, 22, 96, 98-100, 103, 109-110, 112-115, 119
- Archie's Madhouse #10
- Archie and Me #1-8
- Laugh Comics #20
- Laugh #174
- Archie's Pal Jughead #1, 22, 107, 111-112, 114, 115, 117, Annual #2
Notes[]
- Mr. Weatherbee's first appearance may be in Pep Comics #25 (March 1942), as a passenger of a taxi driven by Archie. The man grumbles about the poor driving and remarks to himself how his headmastership of the high school will prevent "go-nowheres" like him. When he begins school, he suddenly again runs into Archie, realizing that he is also a student at his high school, and that chance ride has caused Archie to start off on the wrong foot. However, this character is not named, and is not overweight.