Sally Forth
By Wallace Wood
Editions Hors Collection (1999)
French Text
Black and White art
58 pages A4 plus
Sally Forth is like a Barbarella - constatntly ending up in naked and perilous situations.
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.

This is an example of the kind of predicament Sally Forth finds herself in but this episode does not appear in this book.