[7] The Fly also appeared in short stories in some of Archie's other titles (The Double Life of Private Strong #1 and #2 both published in 1959), (Pep Comics #151, 154, 160 and Laugh #128, 129, 132, 134, 137-139) between October 1961 and January 1963.

His own series was restarted as Fly Man as part of the "Mighty Comics Group", which ran from issues #31-39 (May 1965 - Sept.

[8] The title changed again to Mighty Comics, which featured various Archie super-heroes in solo adventures for #40-50 before its cancellation in 1967.

With issue #5, Steve Ditko both wrote and drew the stories, which portrayed Tommy Troy being framed and discredited.

Archie Comics reprinted the first four issues of the 1959 series in a 2004 trade paperback collection under the company's Red Circle imprint.

In 2007, the French collective and publisher Organic Comix negotiated with Joe Simon for the publication of The Fly in the comic book Strange.

From 2015, when our stories relaunched our United States by Future Retro Entertainment,[14] Jim and his son Jessie Simon published the ShieldMaster crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

Only a few Fly People managed to escape to another dimension, where they waited for "one person... pure of heart" to fight crime and greed, which were their own downfall.

During the start of the Archie Comics run of the character, the Fly possessed only four talents: the ability to walk up walls, to see in all directions, to escape from any trap, and acrobatic agility.

Prime examples were: strength of a million ants, flight as fast as a million flies, durability, the power to shatter materials by vibrating his "wings" in chirping cricket fashion, webbing spun from the small of his back, bio-luminescent light and "heat", resistance to radiation and the ability to mentally control insects.

Later in the series when actress Kim Brand was provided her own Fly Ring powers, becoming Fly-Girl, she possessed the same roster of magical insect-themed endowments.