Betty and Me #180

A movie-theater mishap takes center stage on this Dan and Jim DeCarlo cover, where a frightened Betty clings to Archie amid a crowd of horrified — and thoroughly entertained — fellow moviegoers, popcorn flying as the two trade sheepish banter in the glow of the screen. The surrounding audience, rendered in eerie blue tones to suggest the darkened theater, makes for a wonderfully comic contrast to Betty and Archie's very colorful predicament front and center. Betty and Me #180 is a charming slice of Riverdale life from 1990, with interior work by writer George Gladir and artist Stan Goldberg.