Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine #9

Jughead's signature crown is the only thing keeping his disguise together on this fun cover to Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine #9, where Riverdale's favorite slacker is caught sneaking through a shadowy alley, clutching a battered briefcase with a decidedly guilty expression. Cover pencils by Fernando Ruiz and inks by Jon D'Agostino give the scene a perfectly comic-noir atmosphere, with that dramatic spotlight circle on the brick wall adding just the right amount of mock tension. The cover teases "A Case for a Chase!" and promises strange secrets hidden inside that briefcase — packed alongside plenty of Archie Comics laughs in this 2006 digest.