Life with Archie #169

Something quietly eerie comes over Riverdale in Life with Archie #169 — the cover, penciled by Stan Goldberg, shows a startled Archie leaping through a frozen street scene where a man in yellow stands motionless with a broom outside Pop's, while a large-faced blonde and a dark-caped figure loom in the foreground, all underscoring the unsettling tagline: "Archie finds himself alone in a town — or maybe a world — full of mannikins." The story title "When Time Stood Still" hints at something genuinely strange for the Archie universe, and the mix of Archie's panicked expression against the eerily still surroundings gives this 1976 issue an unexpectedly suspenseful charm.