Imagine How Much Archie Is Crying NOW!!

Hard to feel much sympathy for Archie's plight on the cover of Archie #287 (1979):

Oh, boo hoo, $1.18....

Actually, in fairness, when you adjust for inflation, in 2009 dollars that $1.18 is $3.44, which is just about exactly what regular unleaded is averaging here in Michigan today (#3.425, to be precise).

So I feel your pain, Archie.

Other notes:

A) "Regular." How quaint.

B) Glad to see that Riverdale conforms with the rest of the USA and doesn't use whole cents to price their gas, using $1.18 & 9/10 per gallon instead of $1.19. Does anyone have a clue why gas in the only consumer commodity priced like that? Has anyone ever bought exactly one gallon of gasoline and tried to get their 1/10¢ change back?

C) Look, Siskoid, Betty's reading Hamlet!!