Ruth Roche (comics)

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

References

• Robbins, Trina and Catherine Yronwode, Women in the Comics, Eclipse Books, 1985.
• Ruth Roche @ the Grand Comics Database