Archie's Joke Book Magazine #286

The cover of this 1982 issue tells its own little joke in three panels: Archie rushes past his mother at the breakfast table, insisting he can't stop because he's headed to a "special exercise class" — and the punchline lands when we see he's actually seated watching a Jazzercize class full of energetic women in leotards. Stan Goldberg's bright, expressive linework fills out the fun with a lively header strip of Riverdale teens in various comic chases and mishaps. Archie's Joke Book #286 delivers exactly the kind of cheerful, gag-a-panel humor that made this long-running anthology series a staple of the spinner rack.