Archie #553

Buried under a mountain of snow, a bundled-up Archie Andrews strains with a shovel beside the snow-capped Andrews mailbox while a stern speech bubble warns "Don't even THINK about it!!!" — setting up a perfectly relatable winter predicament. The cover art by Stan Goldberg and Bob Smith captures that signature Archie Comics warmth even in the coldest of settings, with the gang peeking in from the sidebar. This 2005 issue, featuring Angelo DeCesare's story "The Big Problem," promises the kind of good-natured seasonal humor that has always made this series such a dependable delight.