Archie's Joke Book Magazine #158

A winter's day at the skating pond sets up a perfectly timed gag on this March 1971 cover, as Archie and a pal sit rinkside looking disappointed — they'd heard the girls were wearing their "maxis" today. The two-panel joke pays off beautifully when Betty and Veronica skate into view sporting enormous maxi-scarves rather than the maxi-skirts the boys had clearly been hoping for. It's a lighthearted snapshot of early-'70s fashion humor that captures the breezy, good-natured spirit Archie's Laugh-Out Joke Book delivered month after month.