Cleopatra

The legendary Egyptian queen Cleopatra appears in Archie comics as a historical figure encountered through time-travel adventures, most notably in Jughead's Time Police, where characters like Jughead Jones cross paths with her across the centuries.

Few figures from history have proven as irresistible to comics as Cleopatra, who made her sequential-art debut all the way back in 1911 during the Platinum Age — making her one of the medium's most ancient recurring presences, with a catalog footprint stretching across an astonishing 114 years. She turns up most notably in Jughead's Time Police and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, sharing pages with Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, and Jughead Jones himself, which tells you something delightful about her comics legacy: history's most legendary queen is equally at home in Riverdale's anarchic adventures as in more stately surroundings. With Marc Antony also in her orbit, the essential drama of her story is never far away, and whether played for laughs or grandeur, this Cleopatra has proven she can hold a room — and a comics page — across more than a century.