Torchy 1943 by Bill Ward

The Torchy comic strip was created by Bill Ward and was originally produced for the Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY Army Base newspaper. It later saw syndication in the US Army newspapers around the world. After the war, Will Eisner contacted Bill Ward about producing a Torchy feature that later ran in Doll Man Quarterly and later moved onto Miltary Comics before moving into its own title. Torchy was one of the comics Fredric Werthem deemed most corruptive of the minds of the youth and it was discontinued. This strip featuring Torchy Todd was from those early Fort Hamilton years and was signed by Bill in 1980 where he included that he drew this strip in 1943. Another part of an amicable deal with the brothers Donnelly at San Diego 2018.