Best Of Josie & The Pussycats [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2010 | Series: Best of Josie & the Pussycats

In the tradition of the ever-popular ARCHIE AMERICANA SERIES, Archie Comics is proud to present Hollywood's favorite new rock band in a tune-filled trade paperback volume that gets to the heart of the band's comic book roots! Consider it an episode of "VH1's Behind the Music" and a "JOSIE & the PUSSYCATS' Greatest Hits" CD rolled into one!

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About the Author

Frank Doyle (November 17, 1917 - April 3, 1996) was the head writer for Archie Comics for over thirty years. He wrote over 10,000 stories featuring the Archie characters. Artist Dan DeCarlo referred to Doyle as "the best". In 1951 he joined Archie Comics as a writer. Doyle wrot the majority of stories for such important Archie titles as "Archie" and "Betty and Veronica" and also began writing many of the stories for adventure-themed titles. According to DeCarlo, Doyle did "all the writing" for the early issues of She's Josie. Doyle wrote the first issue of the Archie title "That Wilkin Boy" and wrote the debut stories for several Archie supporting characters, including the first appearance of Cheryl Blossom.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Archie Comics (January 20, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879794071
• ISBN-13: 978-1879794078
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 0.3 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #684,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of, May 18, 2004

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Jake Z "holden84" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of Josie & The Pussycats (Paperback)

This is a nice collectors item that no doubt will be worth something someday. It's a collection of the "best" Josie and the Pussycat stories that have appeared in Archie Comics over the years. It features the very first story with Josie, Melody, Alexander, Cabot, Pepper and Albert titled "A Gym Dandy" from the comic "She's Josie" #12, February 1963. They also have little samples from when Alan M. and Alexandra first appeared in the stories, and when Valerie also first appeared. It goes through their music career as a band and their various friendships. It was nice to relive these stories. One of my all time favorite stories was not in here though, it was titled "The Ghostly Guardian" which appeared in the October 1990 issue of Betty & Veronica #21 Double Digest, where the gang visits an old mansion and discover a hidden passage, and a treasure. Overall this is a good paperback to own!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff!, May 23, 2004

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K. (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of Josie & The Pussycats (Paperback)

I've always been a fan of both the "Josie" comic books (created and drawn by the one and only Dan DeCarlo) and the "Josie" cartoon. With this collection of classic stories from the entire run of the series, I get to relive my childhood in a way. Here's hoping that Archie Comics has more coming on the way.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All you wanted to know about Josie but were afraid to ask, March 18, 2005

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of Josie & The Pussycats (Paperback)

Really great stuff about the evolution of a beloved cartoon series particularly of sixties and seventies children.

Those of us who know this stuff primarily from the 1970 Hanna-Barbera cartoon show are in for a few surprises. Josie was not originallly about a group of girl rockers, Alexandra was actually a witch (and NOT metaphorically speaking as she was in the TV show), Brother Alex was actually an egomaniac as opposed to his cowardly TV persona, etc.

We have here the comic book evolution of the Josie concept and even how it eventually got to be a television show. We have here how Valerie joined the band and even Hanna-Barbera themselves (in cartoon form) welcoming the girls to their cartoon show (of course, nothing is mentioned here about Hanna-Barbera originally balking at including the African-American character of Valerie, a sad chapter in cartoon history that fortunately ended with them doing the right thing and welcoming Valerie aboard).

Incidentally, the comic book stories, as evidenced in this collection, were usually more interesting than the cartoon tv series, which pretty much told the same story every time about "meddling kids" foiling the misdeeds of archvillans.

But anyway, buy this and get some pretty cool cartoon history.