Pep #156

A teenage boy piloting a sleek, bubble-topped flying saucer gleefully calls down to his dad — a balding, yellow-shirted man who has just dropped the garden hose in stunned surprise — "Hey, Dad! I won't be borrowing the family car anymore!" The cover by Samm Schwartz (pencils) and Bob White (inks) captures perfectly that cheerful Archie-universe blend of suburban ordinariness and wide-eyed absurdity, with the blue family car sitting forgotten in the driveway. Pep #156 from August 1962 is a charming snapshot of early-'60s optimism, when the Space Age made even a kid's transportation upgrade feel entirely plausible.