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<i><b>Patsy and Hedy</b></i> is a <a href="Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic book</a> title featuring the character <a href="Patsy_Walker" title="Patsy Walker">Patsy Walker</a> originally published by <a href="Atlas_Comics_(1950s)" title="Atlas Comics (1950s)">Atlas Comics</a> beginning in 1952 and later by <a href="Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a>.
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<p>Created by writer Stuart Little and artist <a href="Ruth_Atkinson" title="Ruth Atkinson">Ruth Atkinson</a>, <a href="Patsy_Walker" title="Patsy Walker">Patsy Walker</a> first appeared in <i>Miss America Magazine</i> #2 (<a href="Cover-date" class="mw-redirect" title="Cover-date">cover-dated</a> November 1944), published by Marvel precursor <a href="Timely_Comics" title="Timely Comics">Timely Comics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Redheaded Patsy Walker, her parents Stanley and <a href="Dorothy_Walker_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorothy Walker (comics)">Betty</a>, her boyfriend <a href="Mad_Dog_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Mad Dog (Marvel Comics)">Robert "Buzz" Baxter</a>, and her raven-haired friendly rival Hedy Wolfe appeared from the 1940s through 1967 in issues of <i>Miss America</i>, <i>Teen Comics</i>, <i>Girls' Life</i>, and the namesake <a href="Teen_humor_comics" title="Teen humor comics">teen-humor</a> series <i><a href="Patsy_Walker_(comic_book)" title="Patsy Walker (comic book)">Patsy Walker</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as in the spin-offs <i>Patsy and Hedy</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Patsy and Her Pals</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the single-issue <i>A Date with Patsy</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>The first issue was published in with a cover date of February 1952, and was published by Atlas Comics until issue #76 (June 1961), while Marvel Comics continued the publication beginning with issue #77 (August 1961) with an Annual #1 in 1963.
</p><p>As Timely segued into <a href="Atlas_Comics_(1950s)" title="Atlas Comics (1950s)">Atlas Comics</a>, Marvel's 1950s predecessor, <a href="Al_Hartley" title="Al Hartley">Al Hartley</a> made his mark with a more than decade-long run on the <i>Patsy Walker</i> teen-girl titles. With writer-editor <a href="Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a>, Hartley chronicled the redheaded high schooler's lightly comic adventures in her namesake series (which ran through 1964) and in its spin-offs, <i>Patsy and Hedy</i> (which ran through 1967) and the single-issue <i>A Date with Patsy</i> (Sept. 1957).<sup id="cite_ref-gcd_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcd-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Among the earliest work of <a href="Roy_Thomas" title="Roy Thomas">Roy Thomas</a> for Marvel included two issues of the teen-romance title <i>Patsy and Hedy</i> #104–105 (Feb.–April 1966).
</p><p><i>Patsy Walker</i> lasted through issue #124 (Dec. 1965),<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <i>Patsy and Hedy</i> outlasting it to its own #110 (Feb. 1967).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Writer <a href="Steve_Englehart" title="Steve Englehart">Steve Englehart</a> later introduced the concept of Walker as a superhero in the <a href="Beast_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beast (comics)">Beast</a> feature in <i><a href="Amazing_Adventures" title="Amazing Adventures">Amazing Adventures</a></i> #13 (July 1972).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Englehart recalled that Walker's cameo in <i>Fantastic Four Annual</i> #3 had:
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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"struck my fan's eye by including her in the Marvel Universe. ... I thought it would be cool to bring her in as a real character, with things to do. Part of my 'training' as a Marvel writer was writing romance stories and <a href="Western_comics" title="Western comics">Westerns</a>, but <i>Patsy [Walker]</i> was defunct as a comic by the time I got there. ... Still, as a fan, I had collected everything Marvel, including <i>Patsy Walker</i> and <i>Patsy and Hedy</i> ... so I knew them as characters."<sup id="cite_ref-beware_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beware-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>The Annual was reprinted in the "Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades" collection in 2011, while several issues were reprinted in the "Marvel Months" series beginning in 2021.
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