Ruth Roche (comics)

Ruth Roche
Born	1921
Died	1983 (aged 61–62)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Editor
Pseudonym(s)	R. A. Roche Rod Roche Ruth Manning Ruth Ann Schaefer A. Talbott Roche Agnes Wilson George Tracy Miss Martin Miss Thorpe Tom Alexander
Collaborators	Jerry Iger

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.

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.

Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode dedicated their 1985 book, Women in the Comics, to Roche.

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