Ruth Roche

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"). She died in 1983.

Legacy
Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode dedicated their 1985 book, Women in the Comics, to Roche.

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