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| Notes | Features in this issue include Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog, Dan Hastings, Buck Stacey, Foxy Grandpa, Secret Agent B. O., Boodini the Great, Little Nemo, Burk of the Briny, Crime on the Run, & Sugar, Honey and Huggin. Artists in this issue include Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Norman Danberg, Dick Ryan, Bob McCay, Bill Allison and Clem Getter. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page | |||
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| Name | Blue Ribbon Comics 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 432477. Produced by Chesler Publications for the fledgling M.L.J Magazines, Inc. Louis H. Silberkleit is recorded as editor on the first published Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1939. Abner J. Sundell was working as editor for Louis Silberkleit's pulp publications and could have acted as editor on the early M.L.J comic books. |
| Cover | Meet Rang-A-Tang "The Wonder Dog" / 1 page |
| Genre | Animal; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Rang-A-Tang (dog); Detective Hy Speed |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe ? |
| Inks | Edd Ashe ? |
| Notes | Formerly credited to Norman Danberg, but Danberg was a writer. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Hold That Line! |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | I'm always on the winning side! |
| Notes | inside front cover This is the only appearance of the "Hold That Line!" feature. |
| Publisher advertisement | Hello (1 page) |
| Feature | Just a Moment |
| Notes | Editorial, various artists. |
| Comic Story | Origin of Rang-a-Tang / Rang-A-Tang (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rang-A-Tang, the wonder dog, is a dog at a small carnival, but escapes from his cruel trainer and was living in the streets until he saves Detective Speed’s life. After helping him, he gets full status with the police department. |
| Genre | Animal; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Rang-A-Tang (a dog) (introduction); Hy Speed (detective, introduction); Amazing Boy [Ritchie Waters]; Blackie Blade (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Norman Daniels (signed) |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe ? |
| Inks | Edd Ashe ? |
| Notes | Credit identification's by Martin O'Hearn. Writer formerly identified as "Will Harr ?". Danberg formerly mis-identified as the artist. Jerry Bails's Who's Who indicates Edd Ashe may be the artist. |
| Comic Story | The Mexidian Raiders / Dan Hastings (10 pages) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dan Hastings; Dr. Carter; Bob Carter; Gloria Carter; Europas (villain); Ursulis (villain) |
| Script | Otto Binder ? Ken Fitch ? |
| Pencils | Clem Gretter |
| Inks | Clem Gretter |
| Notes | 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. Continued from Star Comics (Chesler) feature. The "Dan Hastings" feature previously appeared in Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 Series). |
| Comic Story | A Bad Bargain / Buck Stacey (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the Old West, Buck, considered a "range detective", is hired to find some cattle rustlers by ranch owner Sandra Cummings, eventually capturing both the rustlers and the heart of Sandra. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Buck Stacey (range detective, introduction); Sandra Cummings (rancher); Steve Vance (villain, crooked rancher); Ben Hackerman (villain, foreman) |
| Pencils | Bill Allison |
| Inks | Bill Allison |
| Notes | Continued next issue. The story is printed in black, white, and red. The faces and realistic horses are all identical to Allison's credited stories in Cowboy Western Comics #38, and Hi-Lite Comics #1. |
| Activity | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Brain-Teasers |
| Comic Story | The Picnic / Foxy Grandpa (2 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Sports |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Comic Story | The Trap / Sugar, Honey, and Huggin' (2 pages) |
| Colors | ? (black, white, and red) |
| Genre | Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Characters | Sugar; Honey; Huggin' (three bears); Billy Fox (Introduction, villain) |
| Script | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Pencils | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Notes | Signed on second page. |
| Comic Story | Secret Agent -- B.O. / Ima Slooth (3 pages) |
| Colors | ? (black, white, and red) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Ima Slooth (introduction) |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Ima Slooth" feature in Blue Ribbon Comics. It will next appear in Dynamic Comics (Chesler / Dynamic, 1941 Series), starting with #11 (September 1944). |
| Story | Laughs (1 page) |
| Colors | ? (black, white, and red) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Pencils | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| First Line | I'm going to will my body to the National Leather Bag Co. for research study |
| Comic Story | The Big Fight / Boodini (2 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Boodini (a magician / escape artist) |
| Script | Fred Schwab |
| Pencils | Fred Schwab |
| Inks | Fred Schwab |
| Notes | Previously credited to WIll Eisner apparently due to an erroneous (or at least as yet unexplained) entry linking Boodini to Eisner in Who's Who. All known Boodini appearances in the 1930s are by Fred Schwab, who is also credited with wr/pen/inks/ in Who's Who. Much of Schwab's early work is signed, and this matches the style exactly. The "Boodini" feature usually appears in Funny Pages (Centaur, 1938 Series). This is its only appearance in Blue Ribbon Comics. |
| Comic Story | The Radium Ore Robber (5 pages) |
| Feature | Burk of the Briny |
| Colors | ? (black, white, and red) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Jack Burk (introduction); Johnson (villain, dies) |
| Pencils | Frank Frollo ? |
| Inks | Frank Frollo ? |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Burk of the Briny" feature. story in black and white and red. |
| Text Article | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Ages of Animals |
| Colors | ? (black, white, and red) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Pencils | Richard Speed ? |
| Inks | Richard Speed ? |
| Notes | Hand lettered text with illustrations. Former Chesler feature. |
| Comic Story | Down with the King / King Kole's Kourt (2 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Fantasy; Historical |
| Characters | King Kole |
| Script | George Nagle (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Notes | The "King Kole's Kort" feature usually appears in Keen Komics (Centaur, 1939 Series). This is its only appearance in Blue Ribbon Comics. |
| Comic Story | Village of Missing Men (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Major Joe Jordan and Denny are with the Diamond Patrol in Africa to investigate smuggling, illegal mining, etc. They are after a man named Barrett who holds women and children of a native village hostage to force the natives to reveal the location of and mine the stones for him and his gang. |
| Feature | Joe Jordan |
| Script | ? [as Cliff Thorndyke] (signed) |
| Genre | Adventure; Jungle |
| Characters | Joe Jordan of the Diamond Patrol (introduction); Denny (introduction); Barrett (villain, introduction); Barrett's gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| Pencils | Rafael Astarita ? |
| Inks | Rafael Astarita ? |
| Notes | Story in printed in black, white, and red. Thorndyke is only credited as byline by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. This is the only appearance of the "Joe Jordan" feature. |
| Text Story | Death around the Bend (5 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure; Jungle |
| Characters | Jim Steele |
| Script | Pat Gleason |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe ? |
| Inks | Edd Ashe ? |
| Notes | Art identical to Rang-A-Tang story. |
| Comic Story | The Man in the Moon / Little Nemo in Slumberland (4 pages) |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Little Nemo; Dr. Pill; Flip; The Man in the Moon (villain); a Moon Man |
| Script | Bob McCay ? |
| Pencils | Bob McCay ? |
| Inks | Bob McCay ? |
| Notes | next app. in ? McCay credited as writer and artist by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
| Story | It's Really a Fact (1 page) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| First Line | That an average of twenty pounds of gum is shaved off the floor... |
| Notes | The "It's Really a Fact" feature previously appeared in Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 Series). This is the only appearance of the "It's Really a Fact" feature in Blue Ribbon Comics. It will next appear in Top Notch Comics (Archie, 1939 Series), starting with #1 (December 1939). |
| Comic Story | The Murderous "Red" Keenan Gang / Crime on the Run (7 pages) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Crime |
| Characters | Detective Cody; Lieutenant Storey; Keenan Gang (villains) |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Notes | true-crime story |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
