Archie's Joke Book Magazine #120

Jughead's schemes are in fine form on this January 1968 cover, where he sits hunched over his report card with a jar of phosphorus paint, reasoning that he "promised his folks a glowing report card" — a pun so groan-worthy it's genuinely charming. Archie looks on in wide-eyed disbelief, a Riverdale pennant visible on the bookshelf behind him, as the nighttime scene sets the perfect stage for Jughead's last-minute academic creativity. Archie's Joke Book Magazine #120 captures exactly the lighthearted, gag-a-page spirit that made this series a staple of the Archie line.