Torchy (comics)
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Torchy is a
ingenue Torchy Todd, created by the American "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward during 1944.[1] The character was ranked 97th of the 2011 Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.[2]
Publication history
After Bill Ward's
drafting into the World War II military, the artist created the tall, blond, busty ingenue Torchy Todd for the base newspaper of Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton, where Ward was deployed. The comic strip in which she featured soon became syndicated to other Army newspapers worldwide.[3]
Torchy made her comic-book debut as main character of a backup feature of Quality Comics' Doll Man #8 (Spring 1946). Her feature was later published in all but two issues through #30 (September 1950), resuming in #35 (August 1951) through #47 (October 1953), as well as in Modern Comics #53–102 (Sept. 1946 – Oct. 1950). A solo series, Torchy, had six issues (Nov. 1949 – Sept. 1950), some with art by Gill Fox.
Several Torchy stories, including some Fort Hamilton comic strips, were reprinted in
trading cards in 1994.[4]
Ward drew an original cover featuring Torchy for Robert M. Overstreet's
The Comic Book Price Guide
(#8, 1978).
Character biography
Torchy Todd is a ditsy but goodhearted young blond woman who frequently finds herself in humorous, mildly risqué encounters with lustful men.
References
- ^ "Lambiek Comiclopedia". Bill Ward. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-4402-2988-6.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "Torchy". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ Allender, Jeff (ed.). "Bill Ward: 50 Fabulous Years of Torchy Comic Images - 1994". (Trading-card checklist) Jeff Allender's House of Checklists. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008.