That's NOT Bettie Page

Bettie Page's legacy left a huge imprint on modern comics as well as pop culture, largely due to Dave Stevens modeling his character Bettie from The Rocketeer on the pin-up princess. The odd thing is that she was never actually featured in any comics during her career, even though she was in various adult magazines that featured good girl comic strips. One single issue has caused much confusion due to its photographic cover. The first issue of Darling Romance in 1949 was published by Close-Up Publishing Inc. that was owned by MLJ Magazines which eventually changed its name to Archie Comics Publications after their hit carrot-top teenager. This particular issue has a photo of a beautiful brunette with bangs baring a strong resemblance to Bettie Page, but it is really a different model known as Kevin Daley. Despite the slightly masculine name, Kevin began her model career before Bettie did by a few years in the 40's who aside from appearing on the cover of numerous girly magazines also got shown on the cover of some pulp fiction titles like Authentic Detective Cases. Kevin's cover of Darling Romance has left several vintage comics sellers mistakenly labeling it as having Bettie on it instead, despite the fact that it's printed in the table of contents as being Kevin. Ms. Page has become an icon over the decades, but Ms. Daley predated her and unfortunately got mistaken for her by comics fans that can only see while wearing their nostalgia goggles.

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