| Sally Forth | |
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Sally Forth, from a French trade paperback collection. Art by Wally Wood. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Armed Forces Diamond Sales Overseas Weekly |
| First appearance | Military News (June 1968) |
| Created by | Wally Wood |
| Partnerships | Lt Q.P. Dahl, Kicky McCann, Wild Bill Yonder, Hairy James, Snorky |
| Sally Forth (Wally Wood) | |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Wally Wood |
| Artist(s) | Wally Wood, Nick Cuti, Paul Kirchner, Larry Hama |
| Editor(s) | Bill Pearson |
| Collected editions | |
| The Compleat Sally Forth | ISBN 1560972912 |
Sally Forth was a comic strip created by Wally Wood for a military male readership.
Wood's sexy action-adventure character, who is often seen nude, began as a recruit in a commando outfit. She first appeared in June 1968, in Military News, a 16-page tabloid from Armed Forces Diamond Sales. The title is a play on words — "to sally forth" means to set out on an adventure.
In 1976, Wood recalled:
| “ | It all started in 1968, when I was asked to do a complete comic section for a proposed tabloid newspaper for servicemen, four pages of full-color, service-oriented humor strips... There was a high-flying lowlife named 'Wild Bill Yonder,' a couple of others that for some reason escape my memory... (such an embarrassment) and one that I felt, and still feel, had a great name for a comic heroine... Sally Forth. | ” |
Sally returned July 26, 1971, in Overseas Weekly, a tabloid targeted at U.S. military men serving outside North America. With Wood getting an assist from writer-artists Nick Cuti, Paul Kirchner and Larry Hama, Sally Forth continued in Overseas Weekly until April 22, 1974.
Wood collected the strip in a series of four oversize (10"X12") magazines. In 1993-95, writer-editor Bill Pearson, Wood's friend and an associate in the Wood Studio, reformatted the strips into a series of comics published by Eros Comix, an imprint of Fantagraphics Books. In 1998, Pearson edited the entire run into a single 160-page Fantagraphics volume.
Towards the end of his life, two completely pornographic Sally Forth stories featuring Sally and Bill Yonder were created and published by Wood in the adult comic book series Gang Bang #1 in 1980 and #2 in 1981. While the first story is comparable artistically to his previous work on the strip, the second exhibits his declining powers, being crudely done, with gags derivative of earlier work. Neither of these stories have been packaged with the collected reprints of the main run of the strip.