Barbie Barbie Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration. Barbie is the figurehead of a brand of Mattel dolls and accessories, including other family members and collectible dolls. Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for over fifty years, and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits, often involving parodies of the doll and her lifestyle. Mattel has sold over a
Ruth Roche (comics) the first Muslim superhero, published in the comic book Bomber Comics from Elliot Publishing Company. 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. Ruth Roche (comics) Ruth Ann Roche (1921–1983), also credited as R. A. Roche and Rod Roche, was a writer and editor in the Golden Age of