Heroine Holidays PUSSYCAT "'Twas the Night Before Xmas..."

We presented this heroine's politically-incorrect premiere adventure HERE...

...but this tale never appeared in any Marvel publication!

(We'll explain later!)

Marvel Comics' first publisher, Martin Goodman, also owned several other magazines including For Men Only, Male and Stag (predecessors to present day "laddie magazines" like Maxim, and Smooth).

One of the ongoing features appearing in them was Pussycat's strip, a non-nude clone of Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's Playboy strip Little Annie Fanny with a secret agent theme (It was the 1960s, when James Bond, Man from UNCLE, et al, were phenomenally-popular).

In 1968, at the same time Curtis and Marvel tried a b/w Spectacular Spider-Man magazine, they issued a Pussycat one-shot featuring a number of the lady's already-published adventures!
Though the spy fad faded, the Pussycat strip kept going, with her now a ditzy working girl in PG-13 adventures such as this one from Curtis' FunHouse V2N11 (1980), written by Larry Lieber and illustrated by penciler Bill Ward and inker Jim Mooney.
(It had appeared several times before in the Curtis mens' magazine line, but this was the copy I managed to find.)

VAMPIRELLA "Origin" 2.5

We previously brought you the revised origin of Vampirella...

Art by Ken Kelly

...now here's the re-revised origin, using the art previously-published in color, but now in it's originally-intended b/w form!

This rewritten version of Vampi's revised origin appeared in Warren's Vampirella #46 (1975), just three years after it's first appearance (in color) in Vampirella Annual #1 (1972).

Rewritten by Budd Lewis, but using the previously-produced art by Vampi's signature artist Jose Gonzalez, this was a retelling of the girl from Drakulon's origin first told by writer Forrest J Ackerman and artist Tom Sutton in the magazine's premiere issue in 1969.

(And you thought Marvel and DC rebooted their continuities quickly!).
This version was reprinted by Harris Comics when they had the rights to the character, but Harris totally-redid the origin story, eliminating the extra-terrestrial aspect.
The recent revival by Dynamite Entertainment, follows the Harris Comics version of the character.
Dynamite is also reprinting the Warren series in trade paperback form.

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VAMPIRELLA "Origin" 2.0

Back in the 1970s, when Vampirella was a b/w magazine...

...the publisher experimented with doing full-color inserts, resulting in this story becoming the first Vampi tale in color!

This never-reprinted tale appeared in Warren's Vampirella Annual #1 (1972).

Written by J R Cochran and illustrated by Vampi's signature artist Jose Gonzalez, this was a retelling of the girl from Drakulon's origin first told by writer Forrest J Ackerman and artist Tom Sutton in the magazine's premiere issue only three years earlier.

(And you thought Marvel and DC rebooted their continuities quickly!).

Ironically, when this story was re-used (in b/w, not color), it was totally-rewritten, and that version has been reprinted several times since (hence the 2.0 designation for this tale).

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