Pep #217

Pep #217 brings the groovy chaos of 1968 to life with a cover penciled by Dan DeCarlo and inked by Rudy Lapick, depicting a wild "happening" in full swing — a girl in a giant flower costume dances gleefully while asking her exasperated father, "Haven't you ever heard of a happening, daddy?" The poor man's reply — "Yes, but why is it happening to me?" — says it all, as the scene around him erupts with a baby carriage crash, a splattered record, candelabras, and a cast of Riverdale teens lounging across the masthead above. It's a perfectly timed snapshot of the generation gap in full comedic bloom, with Al Hartley writing and drawing the interior story "Snow Use" with inks by Jon D'Agostino and lettering by Bill Yoshida rounding out the creative team.