Honey West & T.H.E. Cat Team for the 1st Time

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As I was going through the latest issue of Previews, I came across this solicitation:

  • Honey West & T.H.E. CAT #1 (of 2)
  • story: Trina Robbins
  • art: Silvestre Szilagyi
  • colors: Patrick J. Williams
  • cover: Valarie Jones
  • 32pgs, color, $3.99
  • Two cult TV icons heat it up together for the first time!
  • Ex-cat burglar and aerialist Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat is back for the first time in 45 years!
  • He puts his skills to good use as a professional bodyguard…primitive…and in love with danger!
  • Now he teams up with TV’s first lead-female private eye.
  • In “Death in the Desert”, 1960’s mob infested Las Vegas, they investigate a series of accidents…but will the attraction between the two cause the case to overheat?

Honey West was a female private eye that first appeared in a series of novels in the 1950’s.  In 1965, Anne Francis played Honey West in an ABC tv series that lasted just one season.  Although the show only lasted 30 episodes it became a cult classic.

Created by Harry Julian Fink (who also created Dirty Harry), T.H.E. Cat appeared in a 1966 tv series that ran for just one season on NBC.  Although T.H.E. Cat only lasted for 26 episodes, it also became a cult classic.

Now nearly 50 years later they are teamed for a 2 issue comic mini-series?  How cool is that?  The eight year old kid in me says, “Pretty dang-gone cool.”

I’ll be pre-ordering the series.  If it appeals to the kid (or adult) in you, then you know what to do.