HONEY WEST No. 1 Sept 1965 Vintage GOLD KEY Sexy Female Private Eye Investigator

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HONEY WEST No. 1 Sept 1965 Vintage GOLD KEY Sexy Female Private Eye Investigator:
$45.00

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Vintage Comic Book
Honey West No. 1 Gold Key 1965 Comic Book

This comic is the FIRST and ONLY one ever published
based on the television show of the same name. It is graded
a 7 aka F/ VF meaning FINE to VERY FINE and it has just very
light creasing (minus some lines on the spine), very little visible
wear including some light folding / creasing to bottom right corner
some light curling to the spine, just a very small 1\" or less tear
to the spine at the bottom and the paper color is a little bit
browned (common for its age) essentially, it\'s in really nice
condition kept in remarkable shape for something
that came out way back in 1965 !

this is a comic that has gone up and up in price
because of its rarity, and because there was only ever
just one issue printed. mint price guide price is $140
and rising - so our F/VF copy will go up in price!

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Honey West is a sexy noir blend of Marilyn Monroe
and Mike Hammer. She\'s a sassy, curvy, glamorous and
tough P.I. She was the first female private detective in popular
fiction. the Honey West character was created by Gloria and
Forest Fickling under the pseudonym \"G.G. Fickling\" and she
appeared in eleven mystery novels by the duo. She first appeared
in the 1957 book \'This Girl for Hire\' and would appear in nine
novels before being retired in the mid-60s
with two comeback novels in 1971.

the Honey West character was also used
in a short-lived ABC TV series in the 1965-66
television season starring Anne Francis and
John Ericson. There were 30 episodes. The series
was executive produced by Aaron Spelling.
Gold Key Comics released just a one-shot
Honey West comic book in June 1966.

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Gold Key Comics was created in 1962 when
Western switched to in-house publishing rather
than packaging content for branding and distribution
by its business partner, Dell Comics. Gold Key featured a
number of licensed properties and several original
titles (including a number of publications that spun off from
Dell\'s Four Color series, or were published as
stand-alones by Dell). It maintained decent sales numbers
\\throughout the 1960s, thanks to its offering many titles
based upon popular TV series of the day, as well
as numerous titles based upon both Walt Disney Studios
and Warner Bros. animated properties. It was also
the first company to publish comic books based on Star Trek.
While some titles such as Star Trek and The Twilight Zone
were published for many years, many other licensed
titles were characterized by short runs, sometimes
publishing no more than one or two issues.

The stable of writers and artists built up by Western
Publishing during the Dell Comics era mostly
continued into the Gold Key era. In the mid-1960s, a
number of artists were recruited by the newly formed
Disney Studio Program and thereafter divided their output
between Western and it. Among the few new creators at
Gold Key were writers Don Glut, Len Wein, Bob Ogle, John
David Warner, Steve Skeates and Mark Evanier; and artists Cliff
Voorhees, Joe Messerli, Carol Lay and Mike Royer. Also in
the 1970s writer Bob Gregory started drawing stories,
mostly for Daisy and Donald. Acclaimed artist/writer
Frank Miller had his first published comic book artwork in
The Twilight Zone for Gold Key in 1978. Diana Gabaldon
began her career writing for Gold Key. According to former
Western Publishing writer Mark Evanier, during the mid 1960s
comedy writer Jerry Belson (whose writing partner at the time
was Gary Marshall), while writing for leading TV sitcoms like
The Dick Van Dyke Show, also did scripts for Gold Key.
Among the comics he wrote for were the The Flintstones,
Uncle Scrooge, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, The Three Stooges
and Woody Woodpecker. Leo Dorfman, creator of Ghosts for
DC Comics, also produced supernatural stories for
Gold Key\'s similarly themed Twilight Zone,
Ripley\'s Believe it or Not, Boris Karloff Tales of
Mystery and Grimm\'s Ghost Stories.

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