Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #195

The 3 o'clock dismissal bell has never looked so chaotic — Dan DeCarlo's cover pencils capture a classroom erupting with students cheering, arms raised, as a frazzled teacher clutches his head while an Alka-Seltzer fizzes on his desk and the clock hits the top of the hour. The tagline cheekily asks who's really the happiest to hear that bell, and one glance at the exhausted teacher versus the jubilant Riverdale gang — including a letterman-jacketed student, Betty, Veronica, and the rest — makes the punchline delightfully clear. Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #195 is a warm slice of 1988 Riverdale humor, with a bonus plug for The New Archies airing Saturday mornings on NBC.