Excited for the Sabrina Reboot? Here's How the Teenage Witch (and Her Cat) Have Evolved

Having already been reinvented Archie and the gang on the CW's "Riverdale," the comic book writer and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has modernized another clbadic Archie character: Sabrina Spellman (also known as Sabrina the Teenage Witch), who returns to TV Friday with Netflix's "Sabrina Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." The stars stars Kiernan Shipka of "Mad Men" as Sabrina, a young woman struggling to choose between becoming a deadly or a deadly, as forces of evil conspire against her.

The Sabrina's previous live-action series, "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," starring Melissa Joan Hart. But Sabrina has undergone a lot of reinventions since her debut 56 years ago. Here's a refresher on her page, both onscreen and on the page.

'Archie's Mad House'

Created by the writer George Gladir and the artist Dan DeCarlo, Sabrina debuted in issue 22 Archie's Mad House, in 1962. She was introduced as a mischievous teenager who enjoys playing tricks on her clbadmates. The issue establishes that Sabrina can not fall in love or she will lose her powers (a character reminiscent trait of Kim Novak's witch in the 1958 film "Bell, Book, and Candle"), but that aspect of the character is dropped fairly quickly, as many of her stories involved going on dates and flirting with boys. Later issues reveal that Sabrina lives with her aunts Hilda and Zelda, who looks like stereotypical witches – unlike Sabrina, who dresses as a modern teenager. Sabrina appeared in issues of Archie's Madness Archie Comics titles, but she received the biggest boost in visibility after her jump to television.

Early Animated Appearances

In 1969, Sabrina was introduced to new audiences in an animated TV special titled "Archie and His New Pals." Soon after, she appeared in recurring segments on "The Archie Comedy Hour," in which the character tries to use her magic to solve problems while hiding from Archie and his friends that she is a witch. In 1970, Sabrina received a spinoff, "Sabrina and the Groovy Goolies," in which she encounters wacky situations involving the Goolies, a group of monsters based on Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, a mummy and a wolf man. The Sabrina 's Sabrina' s Sabrina 's Teenage Sabrina' s Sabrina 's Teenage Witch.

That series gave Sabrina an original story: The opening narration states that Hilda and Zelda were trying to create a wicked witch but accidentally knocked "beautiful girls" stuff "into their potion, inadvertently creating Sabrina, the "grooviest teenage witch." The series ran until 1974. Sabrina rejoined Archie in 1977 for "The New Archie and Sabrina Hour," but the show was canceled after one season. She continued to appear in comics, but she did not appear on TV again until the mid-90s.

'Sabrina the Teenage Witch'

In 1996, a TV pilot film of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" starring Melissa Joan Hart (and featuring the future "Deadpool" Ryan Reynolds) debuted on Showtime. The pilot was picked up for a series by ABC, but most of the film was cast jettisoned except for Hart. The series began on Sept. 27 that year, and it was seen by more than 17 million viewers. It was the highest-rated series in ABC's T.G.I.F. lineup for the next four years.

In this version, Sabrina is the daughter of a male witch and a human, and she discovers a witch on her 16th birthday. Partly because of a curse, Sabrina is unable to be with her parents, so she lives with her aunts Hilda (Carolina Rhea) and Zelda (Beth Broderick). A typical episode might be one of them. Sabrina's half-deadly parenting, her cat, Salem, who was in the comics was a regular orange tabby, became a black cat, and Hilda and Zelda were more intimate. turned into normal-looking people. The show ran for four seasons on ABC before it was canceled and picked up by the WB, which aired its final three.

'Sabrina: The Animated Series'

While the live-action series was airing on ABC, a Saturday morning cartoon titled "Sabrina: The Animated Series" was also produced. This series was more directly inspired by the comics, with Sabrina portrayed as a middle schooler who already knows about her witch ancestry. The show did retain Salem as a talking cat, however. Hart's younger sister, Emily, played Sabrina, while Melissa voiced Hilda and Zelda. The series ran for 65 episodes ABC Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina a Teenage Witch "from 2013 to 2014, the success or popularity of earlier series.

'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'

The new Sabrina series has its roots in recent comic history. In 2013, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa began writing Afterlife With Archie, a horror series in which Riverdale is plagued by a zombie outbreak after Sabrina uses her magic to resurrect Jughead's dog from the dead. The series was filled with gore and graphic violence, and it was a huge success. Aguirre-Sacasa "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." The book features a 1960s-era Sabrina dealing with becoming a witch while being targeted by Satan, an evil witch who is seeking revenge on the Spellman family . Aguirre-Sacasa was hired as Archie Comics' chief creative officer in 2014, and he developed "Riverdale" for the CW, which debuted three years later. Many fans expected that Sabrina would eventually make an appearance on the show, but instead a new series, based on "Chilling Adventures," was created for Netflix. Longtime Sabrina can be shocked by "Chilling Adventures", but the new series gives Sabrina a refreshing new essence.