Funny Stuff: "Pussyfooting With the Pussycats" by Doyle, DeCarlo, and Lapick

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Here's a rare book-length Josie and the Pussycats tale for ya! Ol' Groove has gotta fess up: Archie Andrews is not, nor has he ever been, my favorite redhead. I dig Arch, and he'd be a great pal, but Josie was always my favorite Riverdale redhead. Anywho, besides being a book-length adventure, another cool thing about Josie #49 (May 1970) is that it's almost like a preview of the Josie and the Pussycats cartoon that would make its TV debut the following September. Lots of the elements of this story would become part of the cartoon's formula--kinda like Frank Doyle, Dan DeCarlo, and Rudy Lapick are showing Hanna/Barbera how to do the right thing when "Pussyfooting With the Pussycats!"

Sunday Funnies: Josie in "Lucky Me"

Josie (of the Pussycats fame) got really popular in the early 70s when she and her band got their own Saturday morning cartoon series (a couple of 'em, in fact). Besides starring in her own mag, she also shared the spotlight with Archie, Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch, and the rest of the Riverdale gang in Archie's TV Laugh-Out. Take for example this fun little ditty from Archie's TV Laugh-Out #21 (July 1973) called "Lucky Me". Enjoy!