Josie and the Pussycats (comics)

Josie and the Pussycats
Josie and the Pussycats 48 Page Giant #1 (1993). Cover art by Dan DeCarlo.
Publication information
Publisher	Archie Comics
Schedule	(vol. 1) Varied (vol. 2) Monthly
Format	Ongoing
Publication date	(vol. 1) February 1963 – October 1982; 1993 (vol. 2) September 2016 – 2017
No. of issues	(vol. 1): 106 (vol. 2): 9
Creative team
Created by	Dan DeCarlo
Written by	(vol. 1) Various (vol. 2) Marguerite Bennett and Cameron DeOrdio
Artist(s)	(vol. 1) Dan DeCarlo (vol. 2) Audrey Mok

Josie and the Pussycats (initially published as She's Josie and Josie) is a teen-humor comic book about a fictional rock band, created by Dan DeCarlo and published by Archie Comics. It was published from 1963 until 1982; since then, one-shot issues have appeared on an irregular basis. A second series, set in the New Riverdale universe, launched in September 2016.

The series was adapted into a Saturday morning cartoon by Hanna–Barbera in 1970 and a live-action motion picture by Universal Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 2001; each of these productions was accompanied by a Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack album. A completely African-American version of the band also appeared in the drama series Riverdale on The CW, after which the character Josie joined Katy Keene.^[1]