The Adventures of Pussycat
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The Adventures of Pussycat was a risqué, black-and-white comic strip that ran throughout various men's adventure magazines published by Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company in the 1960s.
Eight five-page episodes of the bawdy but non-pornographic, tongue-in-cheek secret agent strip were collected in a one-shot, black-and-white comic book dated Octover 1968. The cover price of 35 cents was the same as that of the black-and-white Marvel magazine The Spectacular Spider-Man, released the same year but with an original, newly published story.
Talent from Goodman's Marvel Comics who contributed to the "Pussycat" series included writers Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Ernie Hart, and artists Wally Wood, Al Hartley, Jim Mooney and Bill Everett, as well as famed "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward. "The Adventures of Pussycat" is similar to Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's color comic strip, "Little Annie Fanny", published in Playboy magazine from 1962 to the 1980s, as well as Wood's own 1968-1974 "Sally Forth", produced for armed services publications.
Wood drew the 1965 premiere, in which Pussycat, a secretary for S.C.O.R.E. (Secret Council of Ruthless Extroverts) is recruited to fight the agency's archenemsis, L.U.S.T.
The one-shot has no ads except a back-cover advertisement for Jade East cologne, and also contains an unclothed but non-nude centerfold.
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Artist Jim Mooney: "[I]n the early '70s, I did work for Goodman's men's magazines, a strip called 'Pussycat'. Stan [Lee] wrote the first one I did, and then his brother Larry [Lieber] wrote the ones that came later". [1]
[edit] Episodes
Includes episodes not reprinted in the comic above. This list is incomplete, and except for the first episode, the order is uncertain
- "Pussycat" Wally Wood
- "Damsel in Disguise" Bill Ward
- "Bust Out at the Big House" Larry Lieber (writer), Jim Mooney (artist), signed
- "The Castaway Cutie" Jim Mooney (artist), signed
- "High Voltage! or ... I Get a Charge Out of You!" Larry Lieber (writer), Jim Mooney (artist), signed
- "The Cavortin' Case Of The Booby-Trapped Bra"
- "The Hidden Hippie Caper" Jim Mooney (artist)
- "Two Weeks with Play" Jim Mooney (artist) — Stag Annual 1970
- "The Newest Misadventure of our Cuddly Little Cutie" Jim Mooney (artist) — Stag Annual 1971
