Ruth Roche

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Ruth Roche

Real Name
Ruth Ann Roche
Pseudonyms
Ruth A. Roche; R. A. Roche; Ruth Roche; Rod Roche; Ruth Manning; Ruth Ann Schaefer; A. Talbott Roche; Agnes Wilson; George Tracy; Miss Martin; Miss Thorpe; Tom Alexander


Job Titles

Gender

Date of Birth
, 1921

Date of Death
, 1983

First publication

Unknown





Personal History

Personal History of Ruth Roche is unknown.


Professional History

Ruth Ann Roche (1921-1983), also credited as R. A. Roche and Rod Roche, was a writer and editor in the Golden Age of Comic Books. She was also the business partner of Jerry Iger.

Life and career

Roche started as a writer at the Eisner-Iger studio, a packager for Fiction House, in 1940. She wrote such features as "Phantom Lady", "Senorita Rio", "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle", "Kaanga", and "Camilla". She also wrote the female-led adventure newspaper strip "Flamingo", drawn by Matt Baker and syndicated by Iger's Universal Phoenix Features Syndicate. She soon became Iger's associate editor; later they became business partners, and the studio became the Roche-Iger studio.

She stayed with the Roche-Iger studio until it ceased operations in 1961.

She later married a man named Schaffer (or possibly "Schaefer").[1] She died in 1983.

Legacy

Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode dedicated their 1985 book, Women in the Comics, to Roche.

Bibliography

Writer

  • America In Action (1945) #1
  • Bomber Comics (1944) #2
    • "Pixie" story
  • Classic Comics (1941) #32
    • Lorna Doone
  • Classics Illustrated (1947) #26, 31-32
    • Frankenstein
    • The Black Arrow
    • Lorna Doone
  • Fight Comics (1940) #53
  • Haunted Thrills (1952) #11
    • Out of the Grave
  • Jumbo Comics (1938) #44, 152
  • Phantom Lady (1947) #13-23
  • Phantom Lady (1954) #5 [1]-4
  • The Rider (1957) #3
  • Seven Seas Comics (1946) #1-4, 6
    • The Ol' Skipper

Editor

  • Aggie Mack (1948) #8
  • All True Romance (1955) #23-24, 27, 30
  • Battle Report (1952) #1-3
  • Black Cobra (1954) #6
  • Bomber Comics (1944) #3
  • Bride's Secrets (1954) #9-10, 19
  • Ellery Queen (1949) #2
  • Fantastic Comics (1954) #11
  • The Fighting Man (1952) #1-8
  • The Flame (1954) #5 [1]
  • G-I in Battle (1952) #8
  • Gunsmoke Trail (1957) #2-3
  • Haunted Thrills (1952) #3, 10, 12, 17-18
  • Lone Eagle (1954) #4
  • The Lone Rider (1951) #3, 11, 15, 18, 20
  • Lonely Heart (1955) #12
  • Men in Action (1957) #1-2, 6
  • Midnight (1957) #1-2, 4
  • Phantom Lady (1954) #5 [1]-4
  • The Rider (1957) #3
  • Samson (1955) #12-14
  • Secret Love (1957) #2
  • Seven Seas Comics (1946) #1-4
  • Spitfire Comics (1944) #132
  • Spunky the Smiling Spook (1957) #1
  • Strange (1957) #1-6
  • Strange Fantasy (1952) #2, 4-7, 9-14
  • Super Cat (1957) #1
  • Swift Arrow (1954) #1-2
  • Today's Brides (1955) #4
  • Voodoo (1952) #1-6, 8, 10-15, 17, 19


Notes

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Trivia

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See Also

Work History


Official Website

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Links and References

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  1. Roche entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999.