Life with Archie #123

The cover of this 1972 Archie Series entry throws you right into the chaos: Jughead has apparently gulped down a mysterious laboratory liquid and is visibly fading away, while a panicked Archie and an alarmed white-coated professor scramble to intervene. Speech bubbles — "Stop, Jughead, don't drink that liquid!" and "He's disappearing!" — sell the frantic energy perfectly, and a starburst teaser promises the story "Out of Sight" awaits inside. At 20 cents, Life with Archie #123 delivers the kind of madcap sci-fi scenario that made this series such a fun departure from Riverdale's everyday hijinks.