Mr. Weatherbee

Waldo Weatherbee
Archie character
From left to right: Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, and Mr. Weatherbee. From the cover of Archie Digest Magazine #144 (December 1996). Art by Stan Goldberg.
First appearance	Jackpot Comics #5 (Spring 1942)
Created by	Bob Montana
Portrayed by	David Doyle (Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again)
Voiced by	Dallas McKennon (The Archie Show, Archie's TV Funnies, The U.S. of Archie) Marvin Goldhar (The New Archies) Tony Wike (Archie's Weird Mysteries, The Archies in Jugman)
Hometown	Riverdale
Information
Occupation	Riverdale High School Principal
Significant other(s)	Ms. Grundy
Relatives	Wendy Weatherbee (niece) Tony Weatherbee (twin brother)

Waldo Weatherbee is a fictional character in the Archie Comics universe. Mr. Weatherbee is the principal of Riverdale High School, where Archie Andrews is a student. To Riverdale students and (most) staff, he is commonly called Mr. Weatherbee, due to his authority position. Sometimes, Archie and his friends playfully call him The Bee. Mr. Weatherbee is a heavyset, no-nonsense man who dresses in fairly old-fashioned clothes, including wearing pince-nez eyeglasses perched on the tip of a vermiform nose and a tiny wisp of a toupee that perpetually flies off whenever he is upset or startled.

Mr. Weatherbee's first appearance may be in Pep Comics #25 (March 1942), as a passenger of a taxi driven by Archie. After not impressing him with his driving skills, Archie learns that his passenger is Riverdale High's new principal. However, this character is not named, and he is not overweight. The first unambiguous appearance of Mr. Weatherbee is in Jackpot Comics #5 (Spring 1942), where he is named, and has his customary girth.

Mr. Weatherbee is sometimes stated as having once been in the United States military, and saw conflict in war. Due to retconning and the "floating timeline" principle, the specific war has changed over time. Weatherbee's stated specific branch of the military has also varied over the years. According to a story in one of the digest magazines, Weatherbee was a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War; however, a previous story had placed him as a veteran of World War II's Battle of the Bulge. Another story states Mr. Weatherbee was a former member of the United States Marine Corps. In a later story Mr. Weatherbee jests that his claim towards being in the "Battle of the Bulge" refers to his own battle against weight gain, which he has lost.