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Ruth Ann Roche (18 February 1917 – 4 May 1983) 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. In 1944, she created Kismet, Man of Fate, the first Muslim superhero, published in the comic book Bomber Comics from Elliot Publishing Company.
She soon became Iger's associate editor; in 1945 they became business partners, and the studio became the Roche-Iger Studio. She stayed with the studio until it ceased operations in 1961.
She later married a man named Schaffer (or possibly "Schaefer"). 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
=References
= Sources
=Ruth Roche at the Grand Comics Database.
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