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In 1969, Archie Comics made several changes to the Josie comic:
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Archie Comics offering to redevelop the Josie series into one about a teenage music band, and allowing Hanna-Barbera to adapt it into a music-based Saturday morning show. Competing animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions contacted Archie Comics about possibly adapting another of its properties into a similar show. ( The Archies' song " Sugar, Sugar" hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1969 and went on to be Billboard's number one "Hot 100 Single" of that year). The Archie Show, produced by Filmation Studios, was not only a hit on TV, but spun off a radio hit as well. Josie and her gang also made irregular appearances in Pep Comics and Laugh Comics during the 1960s.ĭuring the 1968 - 1969 television season, the first Archie-based Saturday morning cartoon, The Archie Show, debuted on CBS. Under this title, the series finished its run with issue #106 (October 1982). She's Josie was renamed Josie with issue #17 (December 1965), and again renamed, to Josie and the Pussycats, with issue #45 (December 1969). Occasionally Josie and her friends would appear in " crossover" issues with the main Archie characters. These early years also featured the characters of Josie's beatnik boyfriend Albert Pepper's strong but dull-witted boyfriend Sock (real name Socrates) Albert's rival Alexander Cabot III, who chased after both Josie and Melody and Alex's obnoxious twin sister Alexandra Cabot. The series featured levelheaded, sweet-natured redhead Josie, her ditzy blonde bombshell friend Melody, and the brainy, cynical, bespectacled brunette Pepper. The first issue of She's Josie followed, cover-dated February 1963. Josie was introduced in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #23 (Winter 1962-1963). I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book. Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book.
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a year, maybe a year and a half I quickly submitted the Josie strip back to the publishers and Harold Anderson, and he sent it back and said, 'It's not what we're looking for, Dan, but keep up the good work,' or words of that kind. So, I decided to shelve Josie, and concentrated on Willie Lumpkin. I knew I couldn't handle both strips and still keep up with the comic book work, because a syndicated bit was very risky.
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I brought maybe six dailies of Barney's Beat and six dailies of Josie. told me they liked them both, and they'd like to see more samples, because I didn't bring much. Before we got to Publishers Syndicate, I went to United Feature in New York with two strips - Barney's Beat and Josie. I was also hustling my own strip and trying to get it published. When Publishers Syndicate in Chicago got interested in Willie Lumpkin. The artist's wife, Josie DeCarlo, Josie's namesake, said in an interview quoted in a DeCarlo obituary, "We went on a Caribbean cruise, and I had a costume for the cruise, and that's the way it started." ĭeCarlo first tried to sell the character as a syndicated comic strip called Here's Josie, recalling in 2001: Casting about for more comic-strip work, DeCarlo created the characters of Josie and her friends at about the same time. In 1960, he and Atlas editor-in-chief Stan Lee co-created the short-lived syndicated comic strip Willie Lumpkin, about a suburban mail carrier, for the Chicago, Illinois-based Publishers Syndicate. Cartoonist Dan DeCarlo, who had spent most of the 1950s drawing teen and career-girl humor comics such as Millie the Model for Atlas Comics, that decade's forerunner of Marvel Comics, began freelancing as well for Archie Comics.