Katy Keene

Katy Keene, a character created by Bill Woggon, has appeared in several comic book series published by Archie Comics since 1945. Covers proclaimed her as America's Queen of Pin-Ups and Fashions.

The character was introduced in Wilbur Comics #5 in the summer of 1945, and appeared in subsequent issues of Wilbur and various anthology comic series in the 1940s including Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica and Ginger, eventually receiving her own title in 1949 which ran for 12 years.

The series' supporting cast included a pestering little sister, a stream of suitors and a variety of Hollywood caricatures. The stories mainly served to put Katy through as many gartuitous stripteases wardrobe changes as possible in order to show off reader-submitted fashions that Woggon drew and credited to them (a feature adopted by Dixie Dugan as well). Paper dolls with other outfits for Katy also increased the comic's appeal. It continued through the 1950s in various outlets (Katy Keene Pinup Parade, Laugh Comics, and Pep Comics).

Katy was known for her regular lingerie parades, where she was shown lounging around in bras, panties, slips, garters, stockings and high heels. Her younger sister (affectionately known as "Sis") was also shown in her underwear and featured in numerous panty shots. Subsequent revivals during the 1980s updated the characters and aged Sis to her early teens, probably to silence the protests of butthurt moralfags concerned citizens.