Archie #226

Winter fun goes hilariously sideways on the cover of Archie #226 (1973), where Archie steers a ramshackle red snowmobile down a snowy hill with Betty and Veronica hanging on beside him — only for a passerby in a sleek yellow snowmobile to deliver the punchline: the engine dropped out a mile back. Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo and inks by Rudy Lapick give the snowy scene a wonderfully lively energy, complete with a tumbling figure somersaulting in the background above the title. At just 20 cents, this is a cheerful slice of 1973 Archie charm that pairs perfectly with the interior story "The Helping Hand," crafted by writer Frank Doyle and artist Harry Lucey.