Wendy Marco

Colors/letters by Jim Ludwig, for issue 1

   Wendy Marco came to C.B.I.P.'s attention when her photo was run in the high school newspaper. When the studio Boss saw the photo next to a publicity still of Minerva Mallen, he felt sure a new annie team was in the making. Wendy was hired to play sidekick to Minerva in one-reel cartoons, and the two became close friends off-screen as well. Wendy is the grand-daughter of 1920's annie star Louise Beaumont. She's niece to fur salesman Max Marco, and for a time Wendy served as the model seen cuddling mink coats in Max's television commercials (when she lost time to make these live TV spots, model Maxine Mink became the official face of Marco's Minks). A rather down-to-earth girl with simple tastes, Wendy doesn't call too much attention to herself. She remains a frequent presence at the movie studio, though, and often volunteers to fill numerous small jobs such as runner, coffee girl, wardrobe caddy, and script girl. Despite her humility, she's highly visible as a frequently employed model and actress and was the first girl to wear a Creek Bend Bikini on local television in 1956. She became the first girl to wear one on screen in early 1957, when she donned one of the small bathing suits for a cameo in a swimming pool scene for the Morton Duck cartoon Tomorrow Or Not.