I am pretty sure that the Al Hartley library of Spire Christian comics are extent online somewhere or other.  Boing Boing has found its way to a couple of items without it.  (The effect is similar to when Boing Boing posted a link to scans of a Jack T Chick tract, and then scans of another Jack T Chick tract, and then finally received the email update suggesting — Why not just link to Jack Chick’s website which has… all of his tracts?)
But here’s Archie stuck not in the 50s, but in the 20s — say, Tennessee, Scopes Monkey Trial, Inherit the Wind…

The story goes that the publishers of Archie Comics– notably Jewish– were getting a little annoyed when Al Hartley found Jesus and started ebbing Fundamentalist messages into their comics.  I suppose because he ever-so-desired to create a branch of Evangelistic Christian Archie Comics, he asked if he could create them for Spire Christian Comics, and they let him do so.

There are, if you click the link, anti-busing political messages extent in this bizarro-Christian Archie Comic.  Which is just as well, because his other work for this Christian comic company includes a biography of Chuck Colson.
Boing Boing later uncovered the comics of… um… The Cross and the Switchblade.  Meaning it is only a matter of time before they discover that this line of Christian comics also includes something called:

… based on a true story, I hear.

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