Archie will live on in comic stories. This is an alternate future. See Dc or Marvel comics multiverse, alternate time lines etc.
Indeed...my dad, who recently passed, attended Haverhill MA High School in the late 30s. So apparently did Bob Montana, Archie’s creator, who based Riverdale on Haverhill High (and the local paper up there bills it at Haverhill’s Archie)
Wiki: >>Riverdale High School is the local educational institution of Riverdale where Archie and his friends attend the 11th grade. It is based on what was Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The building still stands, although is now Haverhill’s City Hall. Archie cartoonist Bob Montana attended Haverhill High from 1936–1939 and drew on his experiences there in drawing the comic.
Last name of Veronica Lodge comes from : “The Lodge family are a prominent New England political family, and among the families who make up the “Boston Brahmins”, also known as the “first families of Boston.” Bob Montana knew the Lodge Family. Henry Cabot Lodge was Nixon’s running mate in ‘60, and a former MA senator. HCL was born in Nahant MA where I grew up—and inspired the ‘real name’ of the cartoon character Chicken Man: Henry Cabot Henhouse...