I love Lucey (with apologies to Desilu)

Harry Lucey is my favourite of the Archie artists from pretty much any era - he isn't as widely known as some of the others, Dan DeCarlo for instance, but I've always appreciated the sense of design and economy that Lucey brought to his work. It's unfortunate that he isn't more widely known; the practise of giving specific writers and artists credit for their work came about largely after Lucey's tenure in comics. It doesn't help that the bulk of the work published by Archie Comics has never been fully catalogued outside of the company (and possibly inside the company as well), making it difficult to pull together a decent list of his work.

This is an appropriately seasonal story by Lucey from Archie Comics #97 (from 1958), a little late for Christmas, but just in time for New Year's.

Happy holidays!