Archie's Pal Jughead #2

The second issue of Archie's Pal Jughead delivers a perfectly charming slice of Riverdale humor right on its cover: a blonde girl applies curlers to a very contented Jughead's hair while Archie stands nearby holding a towering stack of hamburgers, with speech bubbles declaring that food is the surest way to win Jughead's cooperation. George Frese's linework captures the warm, expressive style that made Archie comics so appealing in 1950, with every character's delight (especially Jughead's) radiating off the page. If this cover is any indication, "Operation Initiation" promises the kind of lighthearted, food-fueled scheming that makes Jughead one of comics' most endearing characters.