Pat the Brat #28

Archie Series' lovable troublemaker is at it again in this 1958 installment, where the cover finds an exasperated red-haired mother hauling a dark-haired boy by the collar while a dazed, star-seeing Pat sits on the ground nearby — the culprit's defense being that a lizard race bet of "a trillion dollars" went unpaid. Leon Winik's pencils and Ray Osrin's inks bring the backyard chaos to life with expressive, rubbery charm that perfectly captures the anything-can-happen energy of Archie's humor line. At just ten cents, Pat the Brat #28 delivers the kind of cheerful kid-comedy mischief that made this series a staple of the era's funny-book racks.