Archie #234

Archie's fitness ambitions get hilariously undercut on the cover of this 1974 installment, where a sweating, straining Archie hoists a barbell overhead while a smirking Jughead Jones relaxes nearby — and Betty and Veronica arrive with the deadpan punchline: he took up exercise just to open a ketchup bottle. Dan DeCarlo's cover pencils capture the whole gang in fine form, with Reggie lurking in the background and even a tiny figure perched atop the logo adding an extra dash of slapstick energy. With Frank Doyle writing and Harry Lucey on interior art, "Clubs Are Trumps" promises the kind of breezy, character-driven comedy that made Archie Series books a staple of 1974 spinner racks.