''Sally Forth'' was an American comic strip created by

Wally Wood Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as ''Weird Science (comic), Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy'', an ...

for a military male readership, featuring a sexy action-adventure character who is often depicted nude. Her name is a play on words"to

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" means to leave or attack from a military encampment. It is unrelated to

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, a daily newspaper comic strip about an American housewife that began in 1982.

Overview

Sally Forth began as a recruit in a commando unit in the June 1968 ''Military News'', a 16-page tabloid from Armed Forces Diamond Sales. In 1976, Wood recalled: Sally returned July 26, 1971, in the '' Overseas Weekly'', a tabloid intended for U.S. military men serving outside North America. With Wood getting an assist from writer-artists

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and

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, ''Sally Forth'' continued in the ''Overseas Weekly'' until April 22, 1974. The ''Sally Forth'' comics were translated into Dutch during the late 1970s. The character was named ''Doortje Stoot'' and it appeared in the male-oriented magazine ''Gummi''. 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 of the Wood Studio, reformatted the strips into a series of comics published by Eros Comix, an imprint of

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. During 1998, Pearson edited the entire run into a single 160-page volume also published by Fantagraphics. Near the end of his life, two

pornographic Pornography (often shortened to porn or porno) is the portrayal of Human sexual activity, sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. Primarily intended for adults,

''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.{{citation needed, date=May 2016

Characters

*Sally Forth — Provides fan service and distractions to enemy males. *Lt. Q. P. Dahl — Commander of the unit, who is half the height of everyone else and looks like a child. The name is a play on the phrase "

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". *Kicky McCann —

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expert. *Wild Bill Yonder — The team's pilot. The name is a play on the phrase "wild blue yonder", meaning sky. *Hairy James — Weapons and demolitions expert. *Snorky — resident

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