Art by Bill Ward from “Torchy” story in Modern Comics #80, Dec. 1948.
Transcript:
WOMAN SITTING, ADMIRING HERSELF IN A MIRROR: If only I could meet someone as wonderful… as me!
1948 Art: Bill Ward Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk510 Modern Comics_Torchy 80.2.1
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WOMAN SITTING, ADMIRING HERSELF IN A MIRROR: If only I could meet someone as wonderful... as me!
1948 Art: Bill Ward Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk510 Modern Comics_Torchy 80.2.1
1948 Art: Bill Ward Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk510 Modern Comics_Torchy 80.2.1
“Of course, I have to pose for Penthouse and Playboy in order to get those…”
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The tether tied around Torchy’s waist was long enough to allow her to reach the make up table, the exercise wheel in the far corner, and her food bowl just south of that.
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Ladies, do you want to have a figure like Torchy? Just follow the Torchy Diet! For breakfast, have a smoothie made of gin, grapefruit juice, and the blue diet pills! A sensible lunch of two lettuce leaves with a quarter teaspoon of cottage cheese sprinkled with green diet pills! And for dinner, a sumptuous course of red and brown diet pills! Yes! The Torchy Diet! Now Keto friendly!
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She was only a bird in a gilded cage…who did two shows nightly inside said gilded cage.
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Torchy would always regret sleeping her way to the top instead of napping her way to the middle.
These are all great, Jam. But for some reason, the second one with the exercise wheel really broke me up!
Tethered, now that’s one way to keep a girlfriend from straying!
Do you want to have a figure like Torchy’s? All you need to do is be a cartoon character and have a cooperative artist.
I like the alternate dimension aspect of the blue looking glass in the revision. She just needs to do an “Alice” and go through.
My now deceased uncle would say, “Them’s some race horse ankles right there.” He always did Larry the Cable Guy voices.