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| Publication | December 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Formerly credited to Norman Danberg, but Danberg was a writer, not an artist. |
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| Cover | Featuring Rang-A-Tang |
| Content | Genre: Animal | Characters: Rang-a-Tang |
| Notes | Formerly credited to Norman Danberg, but Danberg was a writer, not an artist. |
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| Comic Story | The Vandemeer Arson Case (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Detective-mystery | Characters: Rang-A-Tang (dog); Detective Hy Speed; Vandemeer (introduction); Pierre (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Credit ID's by Martin O'Hearn. Writing formerly credited to "Will Harr ?" and art to Norman Danberg.
Jerry Bails's Who's Who indicates Edd Ashe may be the artist. |
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| Comic Story | The Platinum Asteroid (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Barnes asks Carter for his daughter Gloria's hand in marriage, he's rebuffed because he's middle-aged and poor. Carter is more interested in a meteorite that he's convinced is made of platinum and he sends Barnes and Dan Hastings to stake a claim. Barnes calls upon Jan Crissman to help him ambush Hastings and steal the ore. Hastings fights both off, and Crissman abandons Barnes and flees. Barnes comes to his senses, and confesses all to Hastings. He even proves his reformation in saving both Hastings, himself and the ship when Hastings falls unconscious after destroying Crissman and his ship. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dan Hastings; Dr. Carter; Bob Carter; Gloria Carter (Dr. Carter's daughter); Crissman (villain, introduction, death); Arnold Barnes (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | This is the final appearance of the "Dan Hastings" feature.
Gretter is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and faces, hands and figures are very much like his signed stories in US Marines Comics #1 and in Ray and Gail from DC Comics. |
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| Comic Story | A Bad Bargain: Part 2 (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buck Stacey (range detective); Sandra Cummings (rancher); Steve Vance (crooked rancher); Ben Hackerman (foreman) |
| Notes | This is the final appearance of the "Buck Stacey" feature.
The faces and realistic horses are all identical to his credited stories in Cowboy Western Comics #38, and Hi-Lite Comics #1. |
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| Text Story | Experiment in Death (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Dan Hastings |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dan Hastings; Dr. Carter; Bob Carter; Gloria Carter (Dr. Carter's daughter) |
| Notes | Art notes as for the Dan Hastings story. |
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| Featuring | Knight Off |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Knight Off" feature. |
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| Comic Story | Enter: The Marvel (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A white masked individual called The Marvel helps Scoop track down King Carr. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Scoop Cody (newspaperman); the Marvel (introduction); King Carr (villain; introduction) |
| Notes | Faces with prominent chin, and large hands look much like Biro's early work, as in Corporal Collins in this issue.
The "Scoop Cody" feature previously appeared in Star Comics (Centaur, 1938 Series). |
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| Synopsis | Smoking, football and ukulele. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Alfred Langevin |
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| Comic Story | The Stolen Porridge (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Sugar; Honey; Huggin; Willie Wolf (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | In This Corner! "Billy" Conn! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports | Characters: Billy Conn (boxer) |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Sport-O-Grams" feature in Blue Ribbon Comics. It will next appear in Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series), starting with #1 (February 1940). |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Scourge of the Underworld (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney] (introduction); Butch Brady (introduction); Dan Danning (introduction); The Purple Gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | An earlier feature named "Bob Phantom" appeared in Star Comics #1 and Keen Komics #1. It was about a stage magician who also fights crime, and was not the same character or the same feature. |
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| Featuring | Brain-Teasers |
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| Comic Story | Murder on the Ventura (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Devils of the Deep [Jim; Bill; Ted] (introduction) |
| Notes | Ashe is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
The "Devils of the Deep" feature previously appeared in Funny Pages (Centaur, 1938 Series). |
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| Comic Story | Sabotage at the Balkan Oil Fields (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Jack Strand (introduction); Parker Halsey (introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Origin of the Silver Fox (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Silver Fox (a police chief, introduction, origin) |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of Corporal Collins (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Corporal Collins [Jim Collins] (introduction, origin); The Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Biro is credited as a creator on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Text Article | Your Second Helping (1 page) |
| Featuring | Just a Moment |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | editorial, various artists |
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