Sabrina the Teenage Witch #32

History

The 1997 Volume 2 series was launched as a deliberate companion to the Melissa Joan Hart live-action sitcom, incorporating the show's modernized character designs for Aunts Hilda and Zelda, Hart's 'Spellman' surname for Sabrina, and Salem's sitcom-specific backstory and personality. By late 1999, Archie was planning a second relaunch tied to the newly debuting DIC animated series, and the creative team — scripter Michael Gallagher and penciler Dave Manak on the key transitional story, with veteran Dan DeCarlo handling the cover and other interior stories alongside inker Jon D'Agostino — engineered issue #32's 'Everyone Young Is Old Again' specifically to provide a story rationale for the shift to the preteen animated setting. An editor's note inside the issue openly announced that the next release would be a new Sabrina #1.

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• Final issue of the 1997–1999 Sabrina the Teenage Witch Volume 2 series, which ran for exactly 32 issues from 1997 through December 1999.
• Contains the first comic-book appearance of preteen Sabrina Spellman as depicted in *Sabrina: The Animated Series* (ABC/DIC Entertainment, 1999–2000).
• The transitional story, 'Everyone Young Is Old Again,' is scripted by Michael Gallagher with pencils by Dave Manak and inks by Jon D'Agostino; the villain Repulsa, queen of the goblins, zaps Sabrina back in time to her preteen years to set up the animated-series status quo.
• Cover is penciled by Dan DeCarlo and inked by Jon D'Agostino; like the rest of the Vol. 2 run, it features a small inset photograph of live-action sitcom star Melissa Joan Hart.
• An editor's note inside the issue explicitly announced that the next Sabrina comic would be relaunched as Sabrina #1, tying to the animated series — confirming this issue's planned role as a bridge.
• Also includes 'Goal Oriented' Parts 1 and 2 (script Gallagher, art DeCarlo/D'Agostino), in which Sabrina wrestles with the ethics of using magic to win a soccer match, and 'Most Happy Della' (Gallagher/DeCarlo/D'Agostino), plus a backup 'Work Quirk' Archie story scripted by George Gladir.
• The entire 1997–1999 Vol. 2 series incorporated elements borrowed from the live-action sitcom, including modernized aunt designs, Salem's personality and world-domination backstory, and the Spellman surname.
• Stories from this issue were reprinted in *Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine* #160 (November 2005) and *Betty & Veronica Double Digest* #205 (November 2012).

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