Archie's Double Digest Magazine #47

The cover of this 256-page 1990 digest captures a perfectly absurd Riverdale moment: a heavyset man in a red tracksuit furiously pedals an exercise bike wired directly to a television set, while Archie and two friends look on in wide-eyed disbelief. The gag writes itself — his "Couch Potato Exercycle" forces the viewer to generate their own electricity just to keep the TV running, and the cover dialogue sells the joke with characteristic Archie charm. With a packed 256 pages of stories including "Food for Thought," this is a satisfying chunk of classic Riverdale humor at its most warmly ridiculous.