Life with Archie #208

Beach volleyball brings out Archie's romantic instincts in this 1979 installment of Life with Archie, where a coach holding a volleyball delivers a perfectly exasperated reprimand — "Archie, I want close teamwork, but not THAT close!" — as Archie and a smiling blonde teammate cozy up a little too much at the net. Stan Goldberg's sunny cover art captures the whole Riverdale gang in full summer mode, with players spiking in the background and the seaside scene buzzing with cheerful energy. It's a warm, laugh-ready slice of Archie at his most charmingly distracted self.