Archie's Joke Book Magazine #51

The Riverdale gang descends on a Hobby Show in this cheerful December 1960 installment of Archie's Joke Book Magazine. The cover sets the comedic tone perfectly: Archie stands at the center clutching a model airplane, while a self-satisfied Jughead at a nearby table is clearly more interested in an enormous stack of hamburgers than anything hobby-related, smoke curling up around him — much to the visible dismay of the girls and a disapproving onlooker nearby. It's a warm snapshot of that effortlessly fun Riverdale humor that made this series a staple of early 1960s comics.