Can't WAIT for this! I recently re-read "The Archies" one shot and liked it a lot better this time.
I love Alex Segura's writing typically. This should be great.
I love Alex Segura's writing typically. This should be great.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 07, 2017, 11:49:14 PMQuote from: Vegan Jughead on September 07, 2017, 01:02:23 PM
I just got this in the mail. I'm at work so I don't have time to read it yet but on first glance it looks really cool!
Dare we hope for a complete review (of the Archie-related contents) in the near future??
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 03, 2017, 04:15:01 AM
The next JOSIE collection released was the first to be a digital exclusive (it was later re-released with a altered cover design as PEP DIGITAL No. 69). It contained stories from five complete issues of She's Josie (1963), only one issue of which (She's Josie #1) was later completely reprinted in any of the later Josie collections. Unfortunately, the collection didn't reprint ALL of She's Josie chronologically from the beginning -- after issue #1, it skipped to reprinting the stories from issues #8, 9, 10 and 13. Subsequently, all of the stories from Josie #2 and 3 were included as reprints in Archie's Big Book: Magic, Music, & Mischief (the complete contents of which will be detailed in an upcoming post).
Most of the older pre-Pussycats issues of JOSIE were reprinted in older issues of World of Archie Double Digest (with the exceptions of JOSIE #12, 14, 17, 38, and 42-44), so we know ACP has usable copies of the majority of those stories -- the remaining missing art pages could be reconstructed digitally by scanning pristine copies of the printed comic books and using Photoshop to clean up the scans. Can a Complete JOSIE ARCHIVES hardcover reprint collection be more than a decade away in the future? Time will tell... but in the meantime, this collection is a must-have, even for those of us (like myself) who much prefer print comics over digital.
Try staring intently at the image of Josie and Albert for a minute...
... It takes on a psychedelic 3-D effect!!
She's JOSIE: Before the Pussycats! (124 pages) source of 1st publication Dec. 2013 writer penciller inker A Gym Dandy - Chapter I 8 pages JOSIE #1 Feb. 1963 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Neat Workers - Chapter II 6 pages JOSIE #1 Feb. 1963 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Muscle Hustle - Chapter III 5 pages JOSIE #1 Feb. 1963 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Track Down - Chapter IV 6 pages JOSIE #1 Feb. 1963 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo The Unhappy Hero - Chapter I 8 pages JOSIE #8 Sept. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Saved By The Belle - Chapter II 6 pages JOSIE #8 Sept. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo And Away We Go - Chapter III 5 pages JOSIE #8 Sept. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Happy Ending - Chapter IV 5 pages JOSIE #8 Sept. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo You're The Tops - Chapter I 8 pages JOSIE #9 Oct. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo A Run For Your Money - Chapter II 6 pages JOSIE #9 Oct. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Fair Play - Chapter III 5 pages JOSIE #9 Oct. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Cereal Story - Chapter IV 5 pages JOSIE #9 Oct. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Team Spirit - Chapter I 8 pages JOSIE #10 Dec. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo No Help Wanted - Chapter II 6 pages JOSIE #10 Dec. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Sideline Stars - Chapter III 5 pages JOSIE #10 Dec. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo The Last Man - Chapter IV 5 pages JOSIE #10 Dec. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo The Schemers - Chapter I 8 pages JOSIE #13 Jun. 1965 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo The Dreamers - Chapter II 6 pages JOSIE #13 Jun. 1965 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Now You See It - Chapter III 5 pages JOSIE #13 Jun. 1965 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo Now You Don't - Chapter IV 5 pages JOSIE #13 Jun. 1965 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo
Next post -- the BEST OF JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS: GREATEST HITS digital exclusive collection from Dec. 2014.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 02, 2017, 04:00:23 PM
Continuing our review of various Josie collections (post #2 of 8*), both print and digital, we come to the first TRUE Josie trade paperback collection, from June of 2001. Once again, it took a media tie-in (in the form of a live-action movie) to motivate ACP to reprint a bunch of old Josie stories. Ah... it's ever the way with them. This happens to coincide with Josie & the Pussycats being promoted from a backup feature to taking the lead spot (and cover) of ARCHIE & FRIENDS, beginning with issue #47 (itself a reprint), but with #48-49, they got a 4-chapter, 22-page story by Dan Parent (w) and Rex Lindsey (a), broken into 2 chapters per issue ("Music For the Masses"). In the following issue, Holly Golightly stepped in to contribute the artwork, and she'd soon be writing the stories as well, for this too-short, but much-beloved (by me!) run of A&F. Suddenly Josie and her friends had a brief moment in the spotlight and a higher profile at Archie Comics than they'd had in almost two decades. This trade kicked off the celebration, with Rex Lindsey contributing a very nice cover (presumably Holly G was drafted as an afterthought, to replace Lindsey for some reason, but Rex had almost been drawing more covers for ACP at this point than even the prolific Stan Goldberg, so it's obvious that the editor was pretty happy with his work for the company. Perhaps his utility as a cover artist (not to mention as a Jughead artist) was just too valuable for him to be able to do a regular ongoing Josie strip as well.
*(I couldn't believe there were that many!! AND I'm even leaving out Tania Del Rio's Josie the Manga digital collection, and the recent New Riverdale J&tP trade!)
BEST OF JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS 100-page TP source of 1st publication June 2001 writer penciller inker cover new cover illustration by Rex W. Lindsay Rex W. Lindsay Whoever Heard of Girls With Guitars? 2 pages BEST OF JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS June 2001 Paul Castiglia A Gym Dandy 8 pages JOSIE #1 Feb. 1963 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Vincent DeCarlo First Appearance of Alexandra Cabot 1 page (excerpted) JOSIE #8 Sept. 1964 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick First Appearance of Alan M. Mayberry 1 page (excerpted) JOSIE #42 Aug. 1969 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick Evolution of Alexandra's Stripe and Sebastian the Cat 1 page (excerpted) JOSIE #43 Sept. 1969 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick Decisions, Decisions 6 pages JOSIE #45 Dec. 1969 Dick Malmgren Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick Pussy Footing 5 pages JOSIE #45 Dec. 1969 Dick Malmgren Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick Quiet on the Set 8 pages JOSIE #50 Sept. 1970 Dick Malmgren Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick Josie and the Pussycats Come to TV 1 page (ad originally appeared in multiple comics) Aug. (?) 1970 Dan DeCarlo Brawn Is Beautiful 5 pages JOSIE #53 Feb. 1971 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick Ban the Blonde 5 pages JOSIE #55 June 1971 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick The Early Worm Gets the Bird 5 pages JOSIE #56 Aug. 1971 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick The Ghost of Dark Valley Manor 16 pages JOSIE #57 Sept. 1971 Dick Malmgren Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick Up, Up, and Away!! 12 pages Josie #58 Oct. 1971 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Rudy Lapick The Pussycats Get A New Look! 1 page (excerpted) ARCHIE GIANT SERIES #540 Aug. 1984 Frank Doyle Dan DeCarlo Jim DeCarlo Limo Rock 5 pages ARCHIE GIANT SERIES #562 Aug. 1986 George Gladir Dan DeCarlo Jim DeCarlo Cat at the Crossroads 11 pages ARCHIE GIANT SERIES #584 Sept. 1988 Kathleen Webb Stan Goldberg Rudy Lapick J&tP Skiing (pin-up) 1 page JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS (1993) #2 Spring 1994 Dan DeCarlo Alison Flood
NOTES: There's good and bad to be said about this collection. In contrast to my previous post, in this instance the listings in RED indicate a story which hasn't yet been included in any of the subsequent collections (print OR digital), and that's a fair number of stories, so this collection is far from obsolete, despite having many collections come afterwards. BUT it does also contain the superior and unusual "Cat at the Crossroads" by Kathleen Webb, where Josie experiences a life crisis about where she's heading with her future career.
It opens with a 2-page introduction by Paul Castiglia, "Whoever Heard of Girls With Guitars? ". Unfortunately, the editor here chose to include a number of "highlight" moments from stories, in the form of 1-page excerpts, as opposed to just printing the whole story. I could certainly have skipped the excerpt of Alan M's first appearance, plus the excerpt of the Pussycats as punk rockers, for just ONE of those stories complete (or even a single chapter of a 4-part longer story). The sorest point would be JOSIE #43 (as was standard practice, a booklength storyline comprised of four individual Chapters, or Acts) -- the one that explains how Alexandra discovers her ancestor, Sebastian Cabot (whose name was stolen from a notable television actor, who played "Mr. French" on Family Affair), was in fact suspected of "consorting with witches", and she realizes that his spirit may have been reincarnated in her pet cat Sebastian, who shares the same name -- thus, whenever Alexandra is in contact with her cat, she can perform black magic, and believing absolutely that it is so, she finds a book of sorcerous spells to study (self-fulfilling prophecy?). Thereafter, she will attempt to bedevil Josie with her newfound mystic skills, until someone (usually Melody) unwittingly snaps their fingers and breaks her spell. If this sounds familiar, it's because much later on, Sabrina's pet (familiar) cat Salem will also turn out to be a human trapped in a feline body. It hasn't happened yet, but I really want to see that entire issue (JOSIE #43) reprinted. It seems the Cabots have a family history of malicious, restless spirits who remain bound to the mortal plane and who have the ability to possess the bodies of the living (as both Alex and Alexandra will discover in JOSIE #70's "Vengeance From the Crypt").
Bottom line is, there are still quite a few stories here that are in no other collections, so buy it if you can find it at cover price or less. The 2-page pullout Dan DeCarlo pin-up poster of Josie and Valerie skiing (and Melody wiping out) from JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS (1993) #2 is reduced here to a single page image.
Next post -- the SHE'S JOSIE: BEFORE THE PUSSYCATS Digital Exclusive collection.
Quote from: Tuxedo Mark on September 02, 2017, 03:20:56 PMQuote from: Vegan Jughead on September 01, 2017, 10:30:21 PM
I subscribed so it's only like 2.50 a copy but I'd pay 3.99 otherwise.
I've stopped trusting Archie subscriptions. I subscribed to "Betty" and got one issue (the final one); my subscription was not transferred to "Betty & Veronica" (as was supposedly going to happen). I recently renewed my P.O. Box pretty much solely so I can receive the remaining issues in my AWA and CHAoS subscriptions. It's more of a hassle now than anything.
Quote from: Tuxedo Mark on September 01, 2017, 07:00:46 PM
Still debating whether to drop $3.99 on this.
Quote from: Ronny G on August 27, 2017, 04:36:46 PM
Sorry to hear about some of the digests ending. I noticed my supermarket recently has downsized its rack of Archie digests it carries at the checkout lane at Ralph's supermarket on the West Coast. Used to have at least 2 or 3 different titles to choose from--now lucky if I see one! I've subscribed to 3 different digest titles in recent years. I love the classic stories from the 50s-70s--not too crazy about the recent material from the 90s and up, but it seems the digests are 60% newer stories. The digests started piling up in my house so I stopped renewing, but I recently got an email asking me to renew my subscriptions again for 6 issues for $9.99. I really don't need more digests piling up in the house, but it really is a good deal because one jumbo digest cost like $6.99 retail so I renewed my subscription to Betty and Veronica. Also, they have been kind enough to send me some "grace" issues after my subscriptions expired so I felt a sense of loyalty, cause I don't want to see the digests end. I also ordered the upcoming Best of Josie 400 page book from them so I should get that in the mail soon. They also want me to renew B&V friends, but it doesn't sound like it will be around. What would happen if I renewed i and they ended the title? Would they send me something else in it's place??
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on August 31, 2017, 07:12:44 AM
I did a search for this to see what turned up. Lurid Little Nightmares has a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/llnmfanzine/.
The book itself is a 206-page, 8.5"x11" trade paperback. It can be ordered here: http://www.leylander.org/boardman/#!/Lurid-Little-Nightmare-Makers-Volume-Seven/p/76110440/category=14445202. It's a little pricey at $28, but if you're only interested in the contents of the articles, you can get a black & white edition of the book for $14 (regular edition is full-color). I'm thinking about it. There are a couple of neat old 1950s Dan DeCarlo reprints in here, "Wendy the WAF" from G.I. JOE #8, and "Ship Ahoy!" from THE BRAIN #1. I'll have to double-check to see whether those were the same ones reprinted in Fantagraphics' THE ART OF DAN DECARLO.
Here is the contents page, followed by the editor's Introduction page: