Archie's Joke Book Magazine #40

The cover of this 1959 Archie Series gem, penciled by Harry Lucey, captures a perfectly timed party embarrassment: Veronica has arrived in a hula outfit — grass skirt, lei, and flower hair piece — only to discover, to everyone's wide-eyed shock, that it is most decidedly not a costume party. Archie looks on with his signature sheepish grin while Betty and a crowd of well-dressed partygoers react with delightful horror. At ten cents, Archie's Joke Book Magazine #40 delivers the kind of cheerful, relatable humor that made this series such a warm staple of its era.