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Pinup Icon Bettie Page Returns To Comics

Published Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:00:55 -0500

Iconic pinup queen Bettie Page returns to comics with a new series by David Avallone (Doc Savage: The Ring of Fire) and Colton Worely (The Shadow) for Dynamite Entertainment.

Part of the release included the following statement that I am in awe of:

In this latest telling, Ms. Page is more modest than Ms. Blaise, but peels more than Ms. Emma. She out-vamps Vampirella, but she's sweeter than Honey West. She puts the mod in model, and the bangs in bang-bang. Now the world can know the truth: her classified adventures back in 1951 Hollywood have officially been declassified.

Writer David Avallone says,

Like a lot of people my age, I 'discovered' Bettie Page through comics, when Dave Stevens used her to inspire the ingénue starlet of The Rocketeer. She's such a compelling, iconic figure, with such a fascinating life story, that I was thrilled when Dynamite Senior Editor Joe Rybandt asked me if I could build a comic book mini-series around her. After a lot of research into the life and times of Bettie, I chose to put her in Hollywood at the start of the fifties and the beginning of her modeling career. It's all fictional, of course, but it's built on some corners of her real biography, and the real history of the time. I hope I've made my fictional Bettie as funny, as sweet, as sharp, as tough, and as delightful as the real one.

Ms. Page has long been a staple in the comics, dating back to her debut in the 1980's when Dave Stevens based the Rocketeer's girlfriend "Betty" on the iconic leading lady. Subsequently, Ms. Page was seen in the anthology series from Black Cat Comics, a limited pinup series, and lastly in Dark Horse's Bettie Page Comics written and illustrated by Jim Silke.

The debut issue of Bettie Page features a wide selection of cover variants featuring Terry Dodson (Marvel Knights: Spider-Man, Wonder Woman), interior artist Colton Worley's, Joseph Michael Linsner (Dawn, Harley Quinn), and Scott Chantler (Three Thieves, Two Generals), respectively. There will also be a limited-edition "Black Bag" edition, reminiscent of the pinup star's era. Bettie Page #1 will be solicited in the May Previews catalog and slated for release in July.