Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #73

From January 1962 comes this delightfully offbeat issue of Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica, where the cover drops our favorite Riverdale duo into a cosmic beauty pageant. Betty and Veronica — labeled "Earth 1" and "Earth 2" — are lined up alongside a wild assortment of alien contestants representing Mars, Pluto, and Neptune, while a judge at the bottom watches on and one extraterrestrial sneers in a speech bubble, "Those ugly Earth girls don't stand a chance of winning!" Bob White's cover art brings genuine charm and humor to the sci-fi premise, making this 12-cent issue a fun snapshot of early-'60s Archie Comics at their most imaginatively silly.