How is this even possible? That would mean I'm over fifty years old and I refuse to accept that. Your math must be wrong.
I'll have to look in my box of digests to see which one of my Archies is the oldest--I don't think I got any that far back. However, I do have the first D.C. (
Digest
Comic) from National Periodical Publications, which is the TARZAN DIGEST (1972). It reprints lots of Russing Manning pages and has a glossary of Ape English, with a cover by Joe Kubert. I also have a Conan the Barbarian digest, but it's in French--I bought it in 1981 at a newsstand near the Seine in Paris and it reprints the first Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor Smith stories.