I have already gone over some details on the revised story made in pretty quick order in the 1950s -- a number of things pointed out on shifting interactions with Betty and Veronica and clear shifts on dress relating to the code. This 1970s Little Archie version of the story -- I actually do not know the date as comics dot org refers to a 1980 digest and digests at the time were not publishing new material -- follows very closely -- frequently panel by panel -- the original, with only one slight plot insertion that moves a few panels about.
The narrative premises become flawed. Sure, they easily move from Veronica driving a fancy new car and Veronica gloating about being about being able to shine to get it on to simply getting chauffeured in a limo, and they can make a quick shopping location change so to drop a reference to "seen on no one else" / "hardly seen on you" in buying a bikini, but I am still stuck on this --
The editorial move from Bolling to Dexter Taylor in the mid 60s draws the characters toward their teenaged counterparts. There are permutations on childhood lovesickness that can be done here -- one story included in an Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly edited anthology of kids comics, despite the fact that Spiegelman hates this stuff -- from The Comics Journal # 302:
And the question -- what is "dating" with elementary school kids?
Here is the one added bit for the Littles and more modern 70s luxury:
After that we get back to the cloying "poor in spirit" of distant parents and a "Wha--?" from Jughead and Archie.