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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published July 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Harry Stein
Notes Reprint notes and synopses added by Peter Croome (March 2009).

Cover Details - "Why--- How did you ever recognize me?"

Characters Torchy Todd
Genre humor
Pencils Bill Ward
Inks Bill Ward
Notes Reprint notes and synopses added by Peter Croome (March 2009).
Reprinted in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5

9 page Torchy story "My, you're in a terrible tangle!"

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.
Genre humor
Pencils Bill Ward
Inks Bill Ward
Reprinted in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5

6 page Tess and Ed story "You'll love the circus, Tess!"

Characters Tess Parker; Ed Tracy
Synopsis Ed takes on a ventriloquist with a horse for client and accidentally becomes a circus performer.
Genre humor
Reprinted in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5

8 page Torchy story "Torchy, turn around before you get arrested!"

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.
Genre humor
Pencils Bill Ward
Inks Bill Ward
Reprinted in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5

1 page text story "The Blonde Up Front"

Genre humor
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5

7 page Torchy story "Oh, gosh! I think I'm going to sneeze!"

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.
Genre humor
Pencils Bill Ward
Inks Bill Ward
Reprinted in Torchy (Bell Features, 1949 series) #5