Dèjá Vu for Millie the Model

This list is only the first wavelet in a tide of Millie the Model refries, to use the term cat yronwode came up with for Spirit self-plagiarizations. Scripts are reused, if lightly rewritten, but the art is all-new. There are refries too in the Millie the Model Annual, and in the companion title A Date with Millie/Life with Millie. When the feature takes a turn into soap opera, of course the humor-related earlier stories can't be mined any more. But when Millie returns to humor in 1967—comes the deluge!

This is no doubt an incomplete list in that there are gaps in the early issues available; I could well have missed any number of first-time stories. What makes it harder is the lack of story titles in the Fifties. If a story seems familiar it has to be tracked down by looking at the comics themselves--and some around 1960 may be familiar because they're the originals for refries published around ten years later. ("Millie's Museum Madness" in 97 is the second of three uses of that story.)

As far as I can tell, Stan Lee reused his own scripts; he didn't dip back into the earliest Millie stories by other writers.

1953-61 stories in Millie the Model
reworking earlier scripts

May/53	42	[The Scout] (CHILI)
		from MILLIE 35 Chili story
Dec/56	73	[Male Model] (CHILI)
		from MILLIE 32 Chili story
May/59	90	[No Proposal]
		from MILLIE 73 1st Millie story
Jul/60	97	The Other Woman
		from MILLIE 23 Clicker and the Other Woman
		Millie's Museum Madness
		from MILLIE 35 3rd Millie story
Sept/	98	It's a Bet, Pet
		from MILLIE 39 4th 1-page gag
		No Chance to Dance
		from MILLIE 39 1st Millie story
Jan/61	100	How Millie and Chili Met...
		from MILLIE 43 1st Millie story
Mar/	101	[information booth gag] cover
		from MILLIE 53 cover
		Run, Millie, Run
		from MILLIE 41 1st Millie story
		Let's Look for the Book
		from MILLIE 44 3rd 1-page gag
		The Late Date
		from MILLIE 43 4th 1-page gag
		Come to Baby
		from MILLIE 41 2nd 1-page gag
May/	102	Fuss in the Bus
		from MILLIE 32 4th 1-page gag situation