Archie #536

Archie's garage workout isn't impressing anyone on this cheerful 2003 cover, where Veronica and Betty stroll past as he strains with a barbell and his "How to Build Muscles" book — Veronica delivering the perfectly timed punchline about opening a ketchup bottle he couldn't. Stan Goldberg's pencils and Bob Smith's inks give the whole scene that warm, sun-drenched Riverdale charm that makes this series so enduringly fun. A lighthearted snapshot of Archie's eternal struggle to seem cool, tied to the interior story "This End Up.