Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine #5

A perfect time-capsule of early-1980s pop culture, this digest wraps Archie and his Riverdale friends in a full Pac-Man-themed cover by Dan DeCarlo — maze, pellets, colored ghosts and all. In the cover panels, a teacher hands Archie his report card while Betty and Veronica look on, with a worried close-up of Archie (and that Pac-Man emblem on his sweater) hinting at how the grades turned out. At 256 pages for $1.95, it's a generously packed quarterly that includes the story "The China Doll Mystery," written and illustrated by Dexter Taylor.