Introduction
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.