Let's read some more of Doyle and DeCarlo's original "Josie", starting with a story that is more relevant to today's times than ever.
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Previous storytimes:
http://desustorage.org/co/thread/78338587/
http://desustorage.org/co/thread/78374833/
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Prophetic shit right here, kids.
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getting dinner be right back
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#21
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The Batman TV show was big when #40 was out.
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Pfft...meant to say #22
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captcha
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#23
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Thanks fellas
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You fool, you'll attract the furries!
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That's all the hair he can grow in a year? What a baby.
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#24
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>tfw no woman will ever smerp you
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why go on living
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#25
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The benefit of the huge hair of the 60's is that it provided a natural crash cushion.
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Pretty sure I've seen it proven in a John Waters movie
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Frank Doyle would later re-use the same basic plot for an Archie story in the '70s
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#26
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btw, Dan 'n' Dick = Dan DeCarlo (artist) and Richard Goldwater (then-editor).
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Say what you will about Sock, he has good taste.
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No argument here, anon
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poor poor Mr. Ulster
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#27
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Thank god it never occurred to Melody to use her powers for evil.
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Pepper >>>>>>>> whoever the black chick in Pussycats is
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You're thinking of Valerie, anon
and good taste btw
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I don't see why they even needed to replace Pepper? Is a four-girl group that unthinkable?
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IIRC she was written out of the comic because one of the higher-ups at Archie comics thought she bared an uncomfortable resemblance to either (a) student protestors or (b) lesbians
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The "Dan n' Dick" thing was one of Archie's attempts to rip off Stan Lee's editorial style. Their whole Mighty Comics line around this time was a Marvel ripoff right down to the credits (which Archie didn't usually have), which gave the contributors names similar to the Stanley Lieber/Stan Lee transformation.
Superheroes were in thanks to the combination of Marvel and the Batman TV series. You can see Archie trying to cash in on the fad everywhere.
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Of course, in those times, the Archie artists and writers got everything BUT credit (save for Bob Bolling and DeCarlo)
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>You're thinking of Valerie
AKA Black Pepper
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You mean Black Pepper wannabe
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In the next issue, we enter the swingin' sixties in style, shoeless...
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Probably some of the people liked the lack of credit because it made it easier for them to contribute to multiple companies.
When Stan Goldberg went back to Marvel to do Millie the Model again with Lee writing (Lee is basically a comedy writer, the short humor comics are what he liked to write) Marvel credited his art to someone else so he wouldn't get in trouble with the Archie editors.
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Ah, yes. Goldberg did do teen humor for DC and Marvel during the '60s and '70s (too lazy to look up the specific titles). Samm Schwartz had his own "Tippy Teen" series by Tower and also worked on "Date with Debbi" for DC. There are other examples but again, too lazy to look them up right now.
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#28! Finally!
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Vincent DeCarlo passed away in '67, so filling in on lettering is then-new guy Bill Yoshida
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Unfortunately in this issue, we mourn the tragic loss of Alex's pompadour
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Actually wait no he still has it, it's not as pronounced tho
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Dan DeCarlo's brother Vince was his letterer and sometime inker, he died young in the late '60s.
Then DeCarlo's twin sons Dan Jr. and Jim came to work for the company (Dan Jr. penciled exactly like his dad, Jim inked for both of them) and they both died young in the early '90s.
Poor guy.
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And Josie Dumont, the original inspiration for Josie and DeCarlo's wife, passed away a couple years ago as well.
Being a DeCarlo is suffering.
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btw, the letterer for THIS story was late comics vet Jon D'Agostino, who had previously worked stints at Charlton and Marvel before going on to be one of Archie's premier inkers
He inked quite a few DeCarlo stories, but those can be hard to come by. (Hell, he also inked a few Samm Schwartz stories, even harder to come by)
but I digress
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Eda Edwards, wife of veteran Archie artist Joe Edwards, answered the reader mail in the voice of the characters for this and other features like "Dear Betty and Veronica", often without pay.
In her own words...
>I became the Dear Abby of the Archie world, answering letters from kids all over the globe.
>I went through the tons of mail that was sent to us by Archie Comics and answered as many as the page permitted. Joe did the lettering.
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Well THAT was fun...
Stay tuned tomorrow for #s 29-37, where we will meet all kinds of interesting characters...
of course, most of them are filthy hippies, but interesting characters nonetheless
'til then, keep warm and keep this thread bumped
thank you so much for reading
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Hey Albert's wearing Archie's old pants.
posting some OCs while I'm still here
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