The Best of Josie and the Pussycats

by Frank Doyle, Dan DeCarlo (Illustrator), Stan Goldberg (Illustrator)

In the tradition of the ever-popular ARCHIE AMERICANA SERIES, Archie Comics is proud to present Hollywood's favorite new rock band in a tune-filled trade paperback volume that gets to the heart of the band's comic book roots! Consider it an episode of "VH1's Behind the Music" and a "JOSIE & the PUSSYCATS' Greatest Hits" CD rolled into one!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 2001

Reviews

[Rosa · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was so excited when I first got this book, but in the long run it was kind of disappointing mainly because they left so much out. The editors decided to include pages from important stories because they were vital to the story, but really it was just frustrating. I felt they should have sucked it up and made the book longer instead of just including the page where Alan M. and Alexandra were first introduced. They way they did it I was just frustrated cause I wanted to know what happened.

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

A super fun history of Josie and the Pussycats. An introduction by Paul Castiglia relates the comic to the birth of girl bands in the 1980's (girl band is songs created and performed by female only musicians). The rest are comics set through the last 5 decades with the first set in 1963.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

really suprised how much i liked this. only bought a half-dozen issues of the comics growing up and don't remember the show at all. still remember the lyrics to a bunch of archie songs.

i do remember my crush on melody (her voice was done by cheryl ladd on the cartoon). i'm guessing valerie and the black panther were the first major black characters (not in the ebony style) in comics. guess that means valerie was an influence on the creation of storm.

all the issues a beautiful to look at, except for the punk rock pussycats - only one page reprinted thank goodness, but the art and writing are uncredited.

one archie crossover. rex lindsey cover(!) and the inside back cover should be a poster.

[Vincent · Rating 3 out of 5]

What's it called? That drum beat they play at the end of jokes -- ba da bum! That's what I heard at the end of every Josie story collected in this book. It collects Josie and the Pussycat stories from the 60s through the mid-80s. The stories were fun but Josie, Valerie, and Melanie seemed stuck in time. They remained unchanged through disco, punk rock (though there is a punk rock story), MTV, the rise of Hip Hop, and the AIDS crisis. The introduction credited Josie and the Pussycats for inspiring many real life women fronted bands. I believe it. I just wish the band wasn't such a constant. I might have been interesting to see how they faced the changes in the times.

[Gonzalo Oyanedel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una selección de historias frescas y amenas que no descuida los inicios del personaje, mucho antes de iniciar su popular banda musical e integrar personajes como Valerie o Alan. A rescatar las sutiles insinuaciones que los autores dejaban ver en esos años (sobre todo en las reacciones que Melody provoca en el sexo opuesto), si bien el volumen pierde puntos al ofrecer varias historias mutiladas sin una explicación convincente.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nobody draws females like Dan always happy and dingy.

[Nicolas · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a sloppy collection. The inclusion of partial stories was distracting and the full stories weren't particularly good either. I know there are better Josie stories our there. I've read them.

[Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a really cute collection of comics from Josie and the Pussycats, but it was very short, with not a lot of content. Several "series" had only a couple of pages of content presented, as a representative of the "Best."