Jughead #9

Riverdale High's student fund-raiser is in full swing on this cheerful December 1988 cover, where Jughead has taken on the role of "Swami Jones," dispensing $1-a-question wisdom from behind a crystal ball — advising Veronica to use her library card the way she uses her credit card. Doug Crane and Jim DeCarlo pack the scene with the full Riverdale gang, including Archie in his swami booth, a pizza-munching kid, a dog, and a crowd of students and onlookers all rallying behind the "Support Your School" banner. It's a warm, comic slice of small-town teenage life that captures exactly what makes the Archie universe so enduringly fun.