Archie #463

Summer on the water takes a chaotic turn on the cover of Archie #463 (1997), as a grinning Archie pilots a bright red-and-yellow jet ski while an unlucky passenger gets flipped upside-down by what the speech bubble cheerfully declares was "one powerful wave!" In the background, more friends — including a red-haired girl — look on from their own watercraft, adding to the sunny, slapstick beach-day energy. Cover art by Stan Goldberg and Henry Scarpelli captures the gang's classic summertime spirit with all the breezy humor that made this series a perennial favorite.