HONEY WASTE

HONEY WEST
ABC 1965-1966

HONEY WASTE
MAD #103, June 1966
w: Tom Koch
a: Mort Drucker

Detective series started as a backdoor pilot of Burke's Law and the first TV series to have a woman in the lead that wasn't domestic help or a housewife. Often began or ended with Ms. West (Anne Francis) and her partner Sam Bolt (John Ericson) practicing martial arts. She had a pet ocelot named Bruce and her home was supervised by Aunt Meg (Irene Hervey).

They communicated through microphones hidden in an object like a pair of sunglasses or a makeup case.

Note Sean Connery in the next-to-last panel.

There's the apteryx on the windowsill, one of the eyeball kicks MAD used in the sixties. The Lieutenant at the end is drawn as Inspector Clouseau.

SUGAR SOUTH
Sick #40, November 1965
w: Bob Elliott (not Bob of Bob & Ray)
a: Angelo Torres

The show first aired in September so this was obviously written before the show even aired. You can tell because the premise and established tropes such as her partner and animal print fashion are not used.

In the show, it is also established that she inherited the private eye business from her father, something the writer could not have known about.