Torchy (comics)

Torchy (comics)

"Torchy" is a comic strip and, primarily, a series of comic books featuring the ingenue Torchy Todd, created by the American "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward in 1944.

Publication history

Following Bill Ward's drafting into the World War II military, the artist created the tall, blond, busty ingenue Torchy Todd for the base newspaper at Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton, where Ward was deployed. The comic strip in which she starred soon became syndicated to other Army newspapers worldwide.

Torchy made her comic-book debut as star of a backup feature in Quality Comics' "Doll Man" #8 (Spring 1946). Her feature went on to appear in all but three issues through #28 (May 1950), as well as in "Modern Comics" #53-89 (Sept. 1946 - Sept. 1949). A solo series, "Torchy", ran six issues (Nov. 1949 - Sept. 1950).

Several Torchy stories, including some Fort Hamilton strips, were reprinted in Innovation Comics' 100-page, squarebound comic book "Bill Ward's Torchy, The Blonde Bombshell" #1 (Jan. 1992). Others have been reprinted in "fy Pages" #1 (1987); AC Comics anthology "Good Girl Art Quarterly" #1 (Summer 1990), #10 (Fall 1992), #11 (Winter 1993), and #14 (Winter 1994), and in AC's "America's Greatest Comics" #5 (circa 2003). Comic Images released a set of Torchy trading cards in 1994. [ [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/allender/torchy.htm "Bill Ward: 50 Fabulous Years of Torchy" Checklist] ]

Ward drew an original cover featuring Torchy for Robert M. Overstreet's annual book "The Comic Book Price Guide" (#8, 1978).

Fictional character biography

Torchy Todd was a ditzy but goodhearted young blond woman who frequently found herself in humorous, mildly risqué encounters with lustful men.

Footnotes

References

* [http://www.womenofward.net/bio.htm Women of Ward: Autobiography] (official site)
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/w/ward_bill.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia: Bill Ward]
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/torchy.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Torchy]
* [http://www.comics.org Grand Comics Database]

External links

* [http://www.comicstripfan.com/gga/other/w/wardbill.htm ComicStripFan.com: Bill Ward]
* [http://my.opera.com/billinbeijing/blog/the-sexy-cartoon-world-of-bill-ward-in-progress?cid=3049901 The Uranium Cafe (June 18, 2007): "The Sexy and Patriotic Cartoon World of Bill Ward"]
* [http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=4117&si=126 Did You Know? (Dec. 24, 2003)" Torchy]


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