Archie #298

That back-to-school feeling hits hard on Dan DeCarlo's cheerful cover for this 1980 installment, where a classroom full of Riverdale's finest — including Moose, Archie, Jughead (still clutching a surfboard), and a crowd of their friends — commiserate over the end of summer vacation. The tiny beach scene of chaos tumbling across the masthead sets a perfect sun-soaked contrast to the desks and textbooks waiting below. Frank Doyle's story "On a Clear Day" promises the kind of warm, breezy Archie fun that made this series a staple of the newsstand era.