New Archies #15 Cover (1989) Henry Scarpelli
This cover gag features Archie as a newspaper delivery boy with aim as good as most newspaper delivery boys. Most kids today (and many younger adults) likely couldn't envision a time when a young guy would have a newspaper delivery route.
Interestingly "Dan Parent" is written in the bottom margin. His first comic work has a cover date two months earlier in April with the cover of Veronica #1 and had been working on staff since 1987. Research indicates that perhaps his name was here for doing the mechanical work preparing the cover for production. I'd wondered if perhaps this was uncredited inking ghost work but there doesn't appear to be any anecdotal or interview basis for it that I could locate.
Signed by Scarpelli.
Logos are paste-ons with some browning from age. Each margin has a piece of tape. Use of blue pencil and white-out as part of the creative process. Art is overall in very good condition. Printed comic cover is for reference only and not included with artwork.
