Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #210

A slumber party, a mysterious parking meter, and a family phone crisis — this June 1973 issue of Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica packs a lot of domestic comedy into one cheerful cover. The two-panel scene shows Veronica chatting on the phone in star-spangled pajamas beside Betty, while Hiram Lodge looms in the doorway holding what the caption reveals is a "funky old parking meter" — and the punchline is right there: when the red flag goes up, your time on the family phone has expired. With writing by Frank Doyle and art by Dan DeCarlo and Jim DeCarlo, this is warm, witty Riverdale humor at its most charming.