Archie Comics Digest #48

Archie decides it's time to play it cool around Veronica, determined to impress her with restraint—though Jughead, ever the realist, isn't buying it, quietly predicting that Archie’s plan will end in his usual, endearing disaster.

In "Alphabet Soup," Jo and her classmates dive into a delightfully quirky lesson on the ancient origins of letters, tracing the evolution of the letters in Archie's name from Egyptian hieroglyphs through Phoenician, Greek, and Roman scripts. With playful visuals and a lighthearted twist, the story turns the alphabet into a time-traveling adventure, all within the familiar world of Riverdale High.

In "The Trap," Little Betty finds herself feeling overlooked when Little Archie’s attention is firmly fixed on Little Veronica. Pop Tate, ever the schemer, hatches a plan to turn the tide—though whether it’ll work or just backfire is anyone’s guess.

In "The Price Is High," Mr. Weatherbee’s spirits sink when budget cuts force him to scrap plans for a portrait at Riverdale High. Archie, determined to help, tracks down a now-famous former student who agrees to paint the portrait—but only if Archie poses for a sketch, with the condition that it’s… well, not fully clothed.

In "Destruct," Mr. Lodge and Smithers relish the quiet of Archie’s vacation, only to spiral into paranoid dread at the thought of him coming back and wrecking everything—just as the door creaks open.