Katy Keene
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Katy Keene is a character created by Bill Woggon who has appeared in several comic book series published by Archie Comics beginning in the 1940s. She is a model known as the "Pin-Up Queen", and her comics encouraged readers to send in original drawings of unique cars and boats for her and her friends, house trailers and rockets, as well as accessories and outfits for her to wear. These designs were used in the comics with credit given to the submitters. She appeared in various anthology comic series in the 1940s, eventually getting her own short-lived comic. There continued to be specials such as Katy Keene Pin Up Parade and Katy Keene Fashion Book Magazine through the 1950s, but the character was not seen for about 20 years starting in the early 1960s until she was revived in the 1980s. Bill Woggon's apprentice, John Lucas has carried on the tradition with his comics and paper doll books. And now, in the early 1990s she once again went into disuse. Archie Comics re-reintroduced Katy, now a high school student / aspiring model, in its 2005 Free Comic Book Day issue. She recently started appearing in Archie Comics and Archie & Friends Comics.
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