Archie's Double Digest Magazine #172

When Mary grows tired of staying home doing Archie’s chores, she decides to escape to the beach—only to find herself unexpectedly stealing the spotlight from the Riverdale teen idol. With a sun-kissed twist on her usual routine, Mary’s new beachside confidence turns heads in ways no one saw coming.

In "Two Tickets for Saturday Night," Archie’s sudden role in the school play sends the girls into a flurry of excitement, but when the curtain rises, Archie freezes under the spotlight—his confidence crumbling as nerves take over. The moment hangs in the air, caught between anticipation and panic, as everyone waits to see if he’ll find his way back to the stage.

In "Trouble at Tee Time, or 'There Was Levity on the Links'," Archie’s routine caddy run takes a bizarre turn when he stops by Dilton’s garage and gets roped into testing the latest invention: the pocket snoozer, a tiny inflatable mattress that fits in your pocket. One nap later, with the valve accidentally left open, Archie finds himself drifting high above the Hackleton Golf Club, much to the confusion of everyone below.

Archie’s looking forward to the big dance, but without a ride, he’s stuck—until he hears his parents talking about a surprise birthday gift. When the gift arrives, it’s not a car, but a motorcycle, much to Ron’s dismay and Archie’s surprise.

In "Chips Ahoy!", Jughead’s ice tiger sculpture becomes the unlikely center of a late-night prank gone wild. Jealous of the attention it’s getting, Reggie and Veronica sneak out to destroy it—only to accidentally knock over a real tiger, sending them scrambling for safety.

Betty and Veronica spot Archie waving frantically from the water, convinced he's faking it for attention—until they realize too late he's being pulled under by a massive octopus. The lifeguard station’s calm turns frantic in an instant, with the girls racing to save him from the depths.

When Mr. Weatherbee complains of a bad back, Archie and Jughead take it upon themselves to fix his roof—badly. Their well-intentioned chaos ends up doing more than just patching shingles, accidentally relieving the principal’s long-standing pain in the most unexpected way.

In "All in Vain," Archie and Veronica can't resist teasing Frankie Valdez for his meticulous hair care, but their jokes take an unexpected turn when Frankie's pride in his perfect coif leads to an awkward roller skating mishap. The story captures a moment of playful humiliation with a touch of self-awareness, all in the familiar, lighthearted world of Riverdale.

In "Future Shock," Archie and the gang find themselves stunned when Seymour, a quiet boy at Riverdale Beach, starts making eerily accurate predictions—right down to a blanket mishap, a watermelon incident, and a sudden flash of light. As the day unfolds, the line between foresight and fate begins to blur, leaving everyone wondering just how much Seymour knows.

In "Oh, Buoy!", Betty and Archie find their peaceful canoeing trip turned chaotic when a pair of reckless motorboat riders capsize their vessel. With Betty quickly taken hostage, Archie scrambles to help—but it’s Betty who takes charge, outsmarting her captors before he can even reach her.

In this wordless beachside tale from Archie's Double Digest Magazine #172, Veronica surprises Archie with a camera for his birthday—only to reclaim it when he snaps photos of other girls. Her next gift, a football, doesn’t go as planned either, leading her to trade it for a toy policeman kit, all in a playful bid to keep Archie close.