Old Mother Hubbard

A nursery-rhyme-inspired figure who first stepped onto the Golden Age comics page in 1944 courtesy of Herman C. Browner in Sparkling Stars #7, Old Mother Hubbard has a charmingly unlikely comics pedigree — debuting in an era of wartime adventure and color-drenched heroics before finding her most enduring home amid the malt shops and hijinks of Archie's digest universe. With appearances stretching across an improbable six decades into 2006, she's kept lively company with beloved Riverdale regulars like Jughead Jones, Moose Mason, and Dilton Doiley along the way. She may be a rare find in the catalog, but for the dedicated Archie completist or Golden Age explorer, that scarcity only adds to her quiet, offbeat appeal.