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