Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #137

Outside Riverdale High School, Archie laments the Monday morning blues — and gets the perfectly sensible answer from a fellow student: "Friday Afternoon!" The cover, penciled by Dan DeCarlo, captures that instantly relatable back-to-school feeling with the gang arriving on campus in their late-'70s best. At 40 cents, this 1979 entry in the Pals 'n' Gals series delivers the kind of cheerful, slice-of-teenage-life charm that made Archie Comics a staple of the era.