Real Name: Amy Griffiths AMY GRIFFITHS
Real Name: Amy Griffiths
Identity/Class: Alternate
reality (Earth-81752) human;
Australian
citizen
Occupation: Unrevealed (see comments)
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Tom Rawson
Enemies: None
Known Relatives: Mal Griffiths (brother)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
First Appearance: Interstater#9 (March
1991) (see comments);
(Aircel/Malibu) Full Throttle#1 (October 1991)
Powers/Abilities: Amy had a good head for alcohol, downing ten banana daiquiris fairly rapidly without any obvious signs of drunkenness.
Height: 5'7" (by guesstimation)
Weight: 140 lbs. (by guesstimation)
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed, but a dark color, presumably black or brown.
History:
(Full Throttle#1 (fb) - BTS)
- Amy Griffiths lived in Kalgoorlie, an isolated gold mining town in the
desert of Western Australia, where she was known
to be a lady with expensive tastes. She had a
brother Mal who lived in Adelaide and owed her a thousand (Australian)
dollars.
(Full Throttle#1)
- One evening Amy was drinking in the bar of the York Hotel when she was
approached at her table by long-haul truck driver Tom Rawson, who seemed
to already have an idea who she was and asked if he could buy her a
drink. Amy was somewhat dismissive, noting with amusement at him
thinking he could try his luck with her, but decided to take him up on
it anyway. Initially she asked him to buy her a Harvey Wallbanger, which
Tom noted to himself was the second-most expensive drink available, but
then almost immediately she changed her mind and asked for a banana
daiquiri, the only drink more expensive. By the time the bar was
reaching closing time, that one expensive drink had become ten, setting
Tom back AU$200. With the drink supply about to dry up, Tom suggested
they move the party upstairs, but Amy began to shoot him down, saying
that ten drinks wouldn't get him into her... Before she could finish
that sentence, Tom offered to throw in his truck (even a second-hand big
rig truck in 1990 in Australia would be worth AU$70,000 at bare
minimum). Incredulous (but clearly suddenly interested) Amy called out
the offer as bull****, and Tom admitted she was right and changed the
offer to AU$10. Outraged at this, Amy demanded to know what kind of girl
Tom thought she was, and he cheekily responded that they'd already
established that and were now just haggling about the price. Declaring
it was time to cut the banter, Tom offered Amy a thousand dollars, and
Amy immediately agreed.
Some time later Amy lay in bed with a
satisfied smile counting her money, while Tom got dressed by the side of
the bed. Amy admitted their encounter had been fun, and added that she
hoped it was worth the money for him. Tom stated that it had been worth
every cent, then asked her suddenly about her brother, confirming that
she was the sister of Mal. Curious, she asked if he knew Mal, and Tom
responded that Mal was a good friend, and had asked him a favor when he
heard Tom was heading to Kalgoorlie. Amy asked him what this favor was,
so Tom responded with a smug grin on his face that Mal had asked him to
say hi to his sister and pay her back the thousand dollars he owed her.
Comments: Created by David de Vries and Glenn Lumsden.
Aircel's comic Full Throttle reprinted two
different strips by the same creators originally published in two
unrelated Australian magazines. They shared a loose common theme in that
both were set on Australia's highways, extremely long (Australia's
Highway 1 is over 9000 miles long) roads that connect the continent,
often passing through unforgiving landscapes to reach extremely isolated
towns. One strip, Rip Snorter, was published in Streetbike Magazine,
with the titular Rip being a Ducati riding biker in 2043A.D. The other,
Raw Tonnage, had been published in trucking magazine Interstater, and
was set in the modern day and told the story of long haul trucker Tom
Rawson. Amy featured in the latter. If you do seek out either the
original magazines or the Aircel reprints, be warned that because they
were produced for men's magazines neither strip shies from showing
nudity. There are some images of Amy in the story that show more of her
than just her upper half sitting at a table, but they show a little too
much of her to be used here.
Per the National Library of Australia
website: Interstater was an Australian trucking and transport
magazine published monthly by Federal Publishing Co. (and previously
Tadevan Holdings) out of Alexandria, New South Wales. The inaugural
edition launched with a cover date of December 1989/January 1990,
running actively through the early 1990s as a dedicated voice for
long-distance "interstate" freight truck drivers and the Australian
road transport industry.
Full Throttle#2 confirms that Raw Tonnage
first appeared in Interstater#6; assuming that the episodes reprinted in
Full Throttle are in order, then that means Amy appeared in #9. Since
the National Library for Australia online listing for the magazine says
it was bi-monthly until 1991, this would mean that #9 likely came out in
or around March 1991. I know that at least one other magazine-originated
strip, Bodyguard, that Aircel republished as a black and white comic was
in color in the original publication, and the intro for Full Throttle
confirms this was also true for at least the first magazine episode of
Rip Snorter, so this might well also be true for Raw Tonnage.
Interstater has almost zero presence online; if it wasn't for the NL of
Australia website confirming it existed I'd almost believe de Vries and
Lumsden made it up. I guess long haul truck drivers, the magazine's
target audience, aren't the top candidates for either keeping hold of
old magazines or making websites about them.
Of the two strips reprinted in Full Throttle,
Rip Snorter is absolutely not set on Earth-616. Most of the stuff in the
stories wouldn't present a problem, but being set in 2043A.D. is pretty
irreconcilable. Raw Tonnage on the other hand could easily fit within
616. However, I lean to thinking it shouldn't. De Vries and Lumsden also
published many other comics, several confirmed to be part of a shared
"Cyclone Comics" universe. Raw Tonnage doesn't have any outright
crossovers with any of the others, but
since it is set in a lot of isolated places across Australia you
wouldn't expect it to. My default gut feeling is that Raw
Tonnage is still part of that shared universe.
I'm not an expert, but Google tells me that drinking ten banana daiquiris should make you very drunk, in danger of alcohol poisoning, so Amy showing absolutely zero signs of drunkenness after downing that many either means they were alcohol-free versions (and the story makes no hint of this) or she's got a heavy-duty alcohol tolerance.
Amy's profession is never mentioned. A reader
might be forgiven in thinking that she was a ... lady of the night...
given she took payment for spending time with Tom. However, if she had
been then presumably she'd not have been so dismissive of him to begin
with, and would have simply told him how much it cost to spend time with
her.
The joke about propositioning a woman with a
ludicrously large amount of money, then when she agrees immediately
dropping it to an insultingly low number, and when she reacts with "What
kind of woman do you think I am?" saying "We've established that. Now
we're just haggling price." is an old one, and has been attributed to
Groucho Marx, playwright George Bernard Shaw, wartime British PM Winston
Churchill, and Mark Twain, among others.
This profile was completed on 08/10/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent Full Throttle.
Profile by Loki.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Amy Griffiths has no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
Full
Throttle#1, p23, pan5 (main image)
Full
Throttle#1, p23, pan3 (headshot)
Appearances:
Full Throttle#1 (October 1991)
- David de Vries (writer), Glenn Lumsden (art), Dan Danko (editor)
First Posted:
09/21/2026
Last updated: 08/10/2026
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