Pussycat (comics)

Due to the relationship between Magazine Management and Marvel, the stories featured contributions from several creators known for their work on the latter's range of all-ages comics — including Stan Lee, Jim Mooney, Al Hartley, Larry Lieber and Ernie Hart — as well as EC Comics legend Wally Wood and "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward.

As of 2024[update] the original creators of Pussycat and the exact appearances of the feature have yet to be definitively identified due to incomplete record-keeping and inconsistent attribution,[1] though the first episode was drawn by Wally Wood.

However, unlike Annie's everywoman tour of American culture, Pussycat's adventures were linked to another fad of the period, the spy genre.

Despite her lack of experience, intelligence, and situational awareness, Pussycat is usually successful in her missions due to her figure and frequent wardrobe malfunctions distracting the enemy.

In 1989 Amazing Heroes writer Steven Paul Thompson penned a three-page article on the character, describing it as "a fascinating footnote to Marvel history" and noting it as a relic of a time when men's magazines largely focused on lurid text fiction and "two or three T&A pictorials", rather than the explicit material in more modern men's magazines.

He also noted that the stories depended as much on sight gags as titillation, and felt the style was closer to Marvel's all-ages comedy series Not Brand Echh.