Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #286

A sunny summer setting frames this 1979 entry in the long-running series, with Veronica looking mortified and Betty laughing as a man at the "Lodge" mailbox delivers the punchline: Ronnie's mail is nothing but letters from Archie — three of them! Dan DeCarlo and Rudy Lapick's cover finds the girls mid-croquet game, mallets in hand, dressed for warm weather against a cheerful backdrop of mountains and cabins. It's a perfectly breezy snapshot of Riverdale rivalry and romantic comedy at its most charming.