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| - Ruth Ann Roche , 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 . She died in 1983.
Legacy
Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode dedicated their 1985 book, Women in the Comics, to Roche.
BibliographyWriter
* America In Action #1
* Bomber Comics #2
** "Pixie" story
* Classic Comics #32
** Lorna Doone
* Classics Illustrated #26, 31-32
** Frankenstein
** The Black Arrow
** Lorna Doone
* Fight Comics #53
* Haunted Thrills #11
** Out of the Grave
* Jumbo Comics #44, 152
* Phantom Lady #13-23
* Phantom Lady #5 [1]-4
* The Rider #3
* Seven Seas Comics #1-4, 6
** The Ol' Skipper
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* Aggie Mack #8
* All True Romance #23-24, 27, 30
* Battle Report #1-3
* Black Cobra #6
* Bomber Comics #3
* Bride's Secrets #9-10, 19
* Ellery Queen #2
* Fantastic Comics #11
* The Fighting Man #1-8
* The Flame #5 [1]
* G-I in Battle #8
* Gunsmoke Trail #2-3
* Haunted Thrills #3, 10, 12, 17-18
* Lone Eagle #4
* The Lone Rider #3, 11, 15, 18, 20
* Lonely Heart #12
* Men in Action #1-2, 6
* Midnight #1-2, 4
* Phantom Lady #5 [1]-4
* The Rider #3
* Samson #12-14
* Secret Love #2
* Seven Seas Comics #1-4
* Spitfire Comics #132
* Spunky the Smiling Spook #1
* Strange #1-6
* Strange Fantasy #2, 4-7, 9-14
* Super Cat #1
* Swift Arrow #1-2
* Today's Brides #4
* Voodoo #1-6, 8, 10-15, 17, 19
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| - Fiction House; Gilberton; Universal Phoenix Features Syndicate
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| - 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
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| - __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none 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 Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] Job Titles Writer; Editor Gender Date of Birth , 1921 Date of Death , 1983 First publication Unknown
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