Torchy
#5
(July 1950)
Quality Comics,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1950
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
A Quality Comic Publication
- Editing
- Harry Stein
Issue Notes
Available as a scan at digitalcomicmuseum.com.
[no title indexed]
Torchy / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why--- How did you ever recognize me?
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy Todd
- Reprints
-
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2312-A - Torchy - The Bill Ward Stories Readers Collection -
in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5 ([circa late Summer 1950]) - in Torchy (Pure Imagination, 2008 series) #[1] (2009)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #196 - Torchy Volume 2 ([February] 2017), #2312 - Torchy - The Bill Ward Stories ([March] 2019)
-
[The Terrible Tangle]
Torchy / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My, you're in a terrible tangle!
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy Todd; Tess Parker; Ed Tracy
- Synopsis
- Ed wins money on the horses and takes Torchy and Tess out to dinner where Torchy's unravelling sweater dress causes a panic.
- Reprints
- in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5 ([circa late Summer 1950])
- in Bill Ward's Torchy, the Blonde Bombshell (Innovation, 1992 series) #1 (January 1992)
-
Indexer Notes
Title from reprint in Bill Ward's Torchy, the Blonde Bombshell (Innovation, 1992 Series) #1
[no title indexed]
Tess and Ed / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You'll love the circus, Tess!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Tess Parker; Ed Tracy
- Synopsis
- Ed takes on a ventriloquist with a horse for client and accidentally becomes a circus performer.
- Reprints
- in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5 ([circa late Summer 1950])
-
[no title indexed]
Torchy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Torchy, turn around before you get arrested!
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy; Ed Tracy; Tess
- Synopsis
- Ed starts a parking lot and borrows a car to teach Torchy how to drive. Unfortunately an identical car is used at almost the same time to rob a bank.
- Reprints
- in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5 ([circa late Summer 1950])
-
The Blonde Up Front
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5 ([circa late Summer 1950])
-
[no title indexed]
Torchy / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, gosh! I think I'm going to sneeze!
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- Torchy Todd [as Cleopatra]; Tess Parker; Ed Tracy
- Synopsis
- Ed gets a job working at the wax museum and breaks a wax dummy of Cleopatra. Torchy dresses up as Cleopatra while Ed gets the dummy fixed, but ends up being lent out to a businessman's luncheon.
- Reprints
- in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5 ([circa late Summer 1950])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Why--- How did you ever recognize me?"]
Torchy -
1.
[The Terrible Tangle]
Torchy -
2.
["You'll love the circus, Tess!"]
Tess and Ed -
3.
["Torchy, turn around before you get arrested!"]
Torchy -
4.
The Blonde Up Front
-
5.
["Oh, gosh! I think I'm going to sneeze!"]
Torchy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Kenneth English
- Mark Gordon
- Clint Maxwell
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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