Torchy
#1
(November 1949)
Quality Comics,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1949
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Harry Stein (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
Available as a scan at goldenagecomics.co.uk and digitalcomicmuseum.com.
[no title indexed]
Torchy / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The United States Navy Wants You!
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy Todd
- Reprints
-
in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #1 ([circa December 1949]) -
in Good Girl Art Quarterly (AC, 1990 series) #11 (Winter 1993) - in Torchy (Pure Imagination, 2008 series) #2 (2009)
-
Indexer Notes
All credits added by Craig Delich 2011-27-11 per interview with Gill Fox [by Jim Amash] in Alter-Ego #12. The cover is reprinted in black and white.
Gill recounts that "this could be the first art done on Torchy as Bill Ward was just developing his style (note the overdone folds on the male character. Also, Ward had not yet developed a pattern for Torchy's hair, using short strokes on a poorly drawn head."
[no title indexed]
Torchy / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ethelbert... wait! I haven't finished developing your control system!
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy Todd; Tess Parker; Ethelbert (robot); Ed Tracy; Elmo Fleep; Pete; Horatio Wibbs; Jeeves; Elmira Wibbs; Apperson
- Synopsis
- Ed takes Torchy and Tess to visit his inventor friend Elmo who has just developed a robot that answers voice commands. Unfortunately, the robot takes things a little bit too literally.
[no title indexed]
Sam Brown Supersalesman / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Sahle (signed as Sahle)
- Inks
- Harry Sahle (signed as Sahle)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Remember to tell our customers that Harebrain Hatpins are on hats to stay!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sam Brown
- Synopsis
- Sam Brown tries to sell hatpins but almost gets engaged to a homely princess instead.
Indexer Notes
Sam Brown looks and acts like Bob Hope.
[no title indexed]
Torchy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now for your $10,000 prize question, Torchy Todd! Where did you get those great big beautiful eyes?
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy Todd; Tess Parker; Ed Tracy; Mr. Klotzbottom; B. G.; Ernie Burns; Willis; Al Wright; Wilbur; Elmira
- Synopsis
- Torchy gets on a radio quiz show.
Just Call Me Sugah
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sugar Shay
- Synopsis
- Sugar Shay can't understand why she loses her jobs.
[no title indexed]
Torchy / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yoo-hoo, Ed! Bon voyage!
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy Todd; Ed Tracy; Tess Parker; Jonathan Boyer; Alonzo Fleuge
- Synopsis
- Ed gets a job as a millionaire's chauffeur and tries to get money to back a show.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The United States Navy Wants You!"]
Torchy -
1.
Hi Fellows! The New Lionel Trains Catalog is Ready
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2.
["Ethelbert... wait! I haven't finished developing your control system!"]
Torchy -
3.
["Remember to tell our customers that Harebrain Hatpins are on hats to stay!"]
Sam Brown Supersalesman -
4.
["Now for your $10,000 prize question, Torchy Todd! Where did you get those great big beautiful eyes?"]
Torchy -
5.
Just Call Me Sugah
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6.
["Yoo-hoo, Ed! Bon voyage!"]
Torchy -
7.
Spoiling the Gangsters' Scheme
"U. S." Royal -
8.
A Quality Romance Publication Means You'll Get The Best!
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9.
Prizes for You!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Matt Tauber
- Jim Van Dore
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