Life with Archie #270

Few things spell city-wide chaos quite like a towering, snarling eggplant rampaging through downtown Riverdale, and that's exactly the absurd delight Rex W. Lindsey delivers on this January 1989 cover. Archie and his friends flee in wide-eyed panic as the enormous purple menace — clutching a street sign and gnashing its teeth — looms over taxis and storefronts, while a speech bubble cheerfully blames the Riverdale 4-H Club's overzealous use of plant food. Promising the story of "The Giant Eggplant That Conquered the World," this issue of Life with Archie leans gleefully into B-movie monster territory with the whole Riverdale gang along for the ride.