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====Twelve Cent Archie====
Bart Beaty’s <i>Twelve-Cent Archie</i>, the fourth monograph in the series, continues the personal analysis of Young’s book. Beaty, an English professor at the University of Calgary and author of other comic book history monographs, examines a limited run of the Archie comics from the 1960s in order to counter the trend in comics studies that favors favor auteurism. Further, rather than order his book into regular chapters, he uses a multitude of short, 1- to 3-page chapter breaks in order to replicate the story length of the Archie comics. In this way, he challenges notions of what defines a monograph. These sections examine everything from character development, location, continuity (or lack thereof), race, gender, and the medium of comics itself. This level of close analysis offers a great opportunity for limited theoretical examination based on a handful of examples within the limited time frame of the twelve-cent run.
Though Beaty occasionally references events beyond the comics, either in the industry or other artifacts of popular culture in the 1960s, these are used primarily for context only when necessary. In rejecting auteurism in comics scholarship, Beaty counters the trend both from comics readers and scholars to dismiss Archie as unworthy of analysis or serious consideration. He also acknowledges gaps in the archive, as many of these comics have not been reprinted nor included in public collections and are only available through comics dealers for private purchase.<ref> Bart Beaty, Twelve-Cent Archie (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017).</ref>
