American Update: A Date With Patsy: Cindy Comics 1948-1950 – With Kurtzman and Early Greytone Cover
*Teen /Humour/Funny Girls: Continuing our massive restock of comics featuring Patsy Walker, the teen heroine who carried Atlas through the 1950s and was re-invented as Hellcat in the Marvel Universe. This update, though, if we’re being brutally honest, Ms. Walker is not the main attraction. Cindy Comics (later Cindy Smith) launched in 1947 as a blatant Patsy imitator – red-headed everygal protagonist, her guys & gals in a typical midwestern town – honestly, if you relettered the names, you’d be hard-pressed to tell a Cindy story from a Patsy one. The Cindy issues this update do have other aspects of interest – aside from the presence of Ms. Walker as a back-up strip in all four. Issue #30 (pictured FN £80) has two pages of Harvey Kurtzman’s cult ‘Hey Look’ strip, in addition to the usual girlish shenanigans; #37 (FA £100) has an early (and quite notorious) greytone ‘headlights’ cover and #39 (by which time the title had become Cindy Smith) has a rather lovely painted cover by Louise Alston. Covers of issues #30 and #37 may be seen here; details on the others, of course, available in our online catalogue. SORRY, #37 HAS NOW SOLD