Veronica Houndsly – Veronica Lodge from Archie Comics
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Old Sage the Myth Weaving Tree has sent your Myth-weaving wizard to Marleybone to summon the Myth Icon, Archibald Ratfink. He suggests that the citizens of Regent’s Square might aid you in your quest. Reggie Toadsworth invites you to the Archie Fan Club. Veronica is one of the members.
Veronica, is certain she and the club can summon Archie for you. She informs your wizard that there are some arenas that can summon Archie by using statues. She and her friends can summon Archie by telling his stories.
Veronica Cecilia Lodge is one of the main characters in the Archie Comics franchise, and is the keyboardist and one of the three vocalists of rock band The Archies.
She is from New York but currently resides in the town of Riverdale, with her parents Hiram Lodge and Hermione Lodge. She is portrayed by Camila Mendes in Riverdale and Suhana Khan in The Archies.
Veronica Lodge is the only child of Hiram Lodge, the richest man in Riverdale, and his wife Hermione Lodge. She is called both by her name “Veronica” and her nicknames “Ronnie” and “Ron”. Bob Montana knew the real-life Lodge family, because he had once painted a mural for them. Montana combined that name with actress Veronica Lake to create the character of Veronica Lodge. Her character was added in Pep Comics 38, just months after Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, and Jughead Jones debuted, and just a few months before Reggie Mantle debuted.
Veronica is a beautiful young woman with raven hair, favoring expensive, up-to-the-minute fashion. In some comics, Mr. Lodge claimed that he moved his family to Riverdale in order to avoid Veronica becoming spoiled, like many of the children he knew and grew up with. His plan did not succeed as well as he had hoped, as Veronica is often depicted on spending sprees, in which she maxes out her credit cards.
In the earliest Archie Comics, there were a few different ‘Veronica origin’ stories. In her debut story, in Pep #26, April 1942, Veronica was referred to as a ‘sub-debutante’, daughter of ‘Money Bags’ Lodge of Beacon Hill, who had just come to live in Riverdale. In Pep #31, September 1942, Veronica was revealed to have lived in Boston before coming to Riverdale. Her father Burton K. Lodge was introduced as a ‘big shot Boston politician’.
In Archie Comics #1 (Winter 1942), another version of Veronica’s emigration to Riverdale is depicted. In this story, Veronica was referred to as ‘the elusive sub-deb’ and ‘that girl from New York’. Archie had never met this ‘society dame’, but kept daydreaming about her, and wrote letters to her he never sent. Archie wrote to her asking her to a dance in Riverdale, and the letter got sent accidentally; he really wanted to ask Betty Cooper, and was only daydreaming. Even after he realized he had sent the letter, he did not think she would really come. Veronica accepted the invitation, thinking that a dance would be fun. At the time she apparently lived in New York with her mother, and she begged Mrs. Lodge to let her go to the Riverdale dance. Archie struggled trying to keep his dates with both girls, thus beginning their love triangle.
Featuring Archie and Veronica
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