Josie and the Pussycats started as a comic book in the early 1960s, before the phrase "drugs, sex and rock'n'roll" became truly in vogue. In the early 1970s the comic book was spun into a cartoon that followed the mystery genre, patterned after the successful Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? cartoons. The Pussycats were then brought into the space age during the era of the final Apollo missions to the moon and the launch of Skylab, and in the final two seasons their series was called Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space.

The on-screen exploits of Josie, Mel and Val were welcomed by a faithful few in 2001, and their updated music gave us songs like "Three Small Words," "Spin Around," "You Don't See Me," and "Pretend to be Nice." There was some surprise that the soundtrack to Josie and the Pussycats performed better in stores than the movie did while in theatres. While Josie spent several weeks in the top 20 following it's release, it didn't make enough of a dent at the box office for it to break even and quickly faded from the movie screen.

One night I wondered about how their cover art might have appeared had these songs been released in the late 1960s or early '70s. The following three images are based on what I remember of the poster and album art from that time, but they have a definitive "Josie" spin to them.

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