Archie and Me #102

The cover of this 1978 Archie Comics entry says it all — Archie zooms through the school hallway on a skateboard, confidently declaring he's going to surprise "the Bee" by helping janitor Swensen, while paint flies everywhere and a stunned, splattered Mr. Weatherbee emerges from the Principal's office. The chaos up top, where a "SPLAT!" sends everyone scrambling, perfectly sets the tone for the kind of well-meaning mayhem only Archie could engineer. Light, breezy fun at a 35-cent price point, this one captures everything that made the Archie series such a dependable treat in the late '70s.