Cheryl Blossom #15

Cheryl Blossom is front and center on this sun-soaked September 1998 cover, belting into a microphone in her bikini while a crowd of familiar Riverdale faces — including Archie, Jughead, and a bevy of beachgoers — dance and cheer around her beneath a bright summer sky. An NTV camera crew films the spectacle from the shoreline, promising that Cheryl's Summer Beach Bash is officially on the record. Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo with inks by Jon D'Agostino give the whole scene that warm, breezy Archie Comics energy that makes it hard not to smile.