Betty and Me #154

The Riverdale High PTA Fall Fair takes center stage on Dan DeCarlo's charming cover for this 1986 installment of Betty and Me, where Archie winds up holding a bottle instead of the doll prize at a carnival throw booth — a perfectly backwards bit of luck that has Betty looking less than impressed. The lower panel broadens the scene to a colorful fairground filled with stuffed animals, a carousel, and the whole Riverdale gang enjoying the festivities. It's a warm, lighthearted slice of small-town fun that captures exactly what made this series so endearing in the mid-1980s.