Editing Dan DeCarlo (section)

===Josie===
DeCarlo created Josie on his own in the late 1950s; his wife, named Josie, said in an interview quoted in a DeCarlo obituary, "We went on a [[Caribbean]] cruise, and I had a [cat] costume for the cruise, and that's the way it started."<ref name=nytimes /> DeCarlo first tried to sell the character as a syndicated comic strip called ''Here's Josie'', recalling in 2001:
{{quote|text=When Publishers Syndicate in Chicago got interested in ''[[Willie Lumpkin]]'' ... I was also hustling my own strip and trying to get it published. Before we got to Publishers Syndicate, I went to [[United Feature]] in New York City with two strips — ''Barney's Beat'' and ''Josie''. [United Feature] told me they liked them both, and they'd like to see more samples, because I didn't bring much. I brought maybe six dailies of ''Barney's Beat'' and six dailies of ''Josie''. That posed a problem for me. I knew I couldn't handle both strips and still keep up with the comic book work, because a syndicated bit was very risky. So, I decided to shelve ''Josie'', and concentrated on ''Willie Lumpkin''. [When that strip ended after] a year, maybe a year and a half[,] I quickly submitted the Josie strip back to the publishers and Harold Anderson, and he sent it back and said, 'It's not what we're looking for, Dan, but keep up the good work,' or words of that kind. Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to [[Richard Goldwater]], and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.<ref name=trades />}}
[[File:Lapick inking decarlo archie.png|left|400px|thumb|Original art panels from "The Reformer" in ''[[Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica]]'' No. 157 (Jan. 1969), featuring (l. to r.) [[Veronica Lodge]] and [[Archie Andrews (comics)|Archie Andrews]]. [[Penciler|Penciled]] by DeCarlo, [[inker|inked]] by [[Rudy Lapick]].]]
Josie was introduced in ''[[Archie's Pals and Gals|Archie's Pals 'n' Gals]]'' #23. The first issue of ''She's Josie'' followed, cover-dated February 1963.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/12919/ ''She's Josie''] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref> The series featured levelheaded, sweet-natured Josie, her [[Blonde bombshell (stereotype)|blonde bombshell]] friend Melody, and [[bookworm]]ish brunette Pepper. These early years also featured the characters of Josie and Pepper's boyfriends Albert and Sock (real name Socrates); Albert's rival Alexander Cabot III; and Alex's twin sister Alexandra. Occasionally Josie and her friends appeared in "[[fictional crossover|crossover]]" issues with the main Archie characters. ''She's Josie'' was renamed ''Josie'' with issue #17 (Dec. 1965),<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/12920/ ''Josie''] at the Grand Comics Database</ref> and again renamed, to ''Josie and the Pussycats'', with issue #45 (Dec. 1969), whereby Pepper was replaced by Valerie and Albert was replaced by Alan M. Under this title, the series finished its run with issue #106 (Oct. 1982).<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/12921/ ''Josie and the Pussycats''] at the Grand Comics Database</ref> Josie and her gang also made irregular appearances in ''[[Pep Comics]]'' and ''[[Laugh Comics]]'' during the 1960s.
[[File:Dandecarlomens.png|thumb|right|300px|1956 example of DeCarlo's cartoon work for men's magazines. "Allan, are you trying to pull the wool over my eyes?"]]
When [[Universal Pictures]] was preparing the live-action movie adaptation ''[[Josie and the Pussycats (film)|Josie and the Pussycats]]'' in 2001, DeCarlo and Archie Comics became involved in a lawsuit over the character's creation, leading the publisher to terminate its 43-year relationship with him. A federal district court ruled in 2001 that Archie Comics owned the [[copyright]] to the Josie characters; this decision was affirmed by the [[Second Circuit Court of Appeals]].<ref name=supreme>Dean, Mike.{{cite web|url=http://www.tcj.com/aa02ws/n_decarlo.html |title=Supreme Court Rejects DeCarlo Appeal |access-date=December 19, 2005 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004155455/http://www.tcj.com/aa02ws/n_decarlo.html |archive-date=October 4, 2009 |work=[[The Comics Journal]]|issue=240|date=January 2002}}</ref> On December 11, 2001, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] rejected an appeal filed by DeCarlo's attorney, Whitney Seymour Jr., who had argued that the issue was a matter of state [[property law]] and not federal copyright law.<ref name=supreme />

DeCarlo was listed as a creator in the end credits of the film ''[[Josie and the Pussycats (film)|Josie and the Pussycats]]''. He received credit as co-creator of the live-action television show ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Oliver |first=Myrna |date=December 25, 2001 |title=Dan DeCarlo, 82; Cartoonist Drew Archie, Josie and the Pussycat Comics |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-25-me-17888-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=March 19, 2013}}</ref>

Among DeCarlo's final works were a story for [[Paul Dini]]'s independent comics series ''[[Jingle Belle]]'', and stories for [[Bongo Comics]]' ''[[The Simpsons]]'' TV tie-in comic, ''[[Bart Simpson]]''.<ref name="cbr-defined" />