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| Date | | Number: 4 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Notes | Features in this issue include Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog, Hercules, Gypsy Johnson, The Fox, Ty-Gor, Doc Strong, Loop Logan, Corporal Collins & The Green Falcon. Artists in this issue include Charles Biro, Ed Wexler, John Bulthius, Irwin Hasen, George Storm, Sam Cooper, Frank Volp, and Edd Ashe. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page | |||
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| Name | Blue Ribbon Comics 4 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/). On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 448697. 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 | 1 page |
| Characters | Corporal Collins; Rang-a-Tang (inset); Hercules (inset) |
| Pencils | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Biro (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Canal Zone Murder Case / Rang-A-Tang (10.5 pages) |
| Characters | V: Wheeler (I) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Ed Smalle |
| Inks | Ed Smalle |
| Comic Story | Hercules Slays the Lion of Nemea!! / Hercules (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hercules suddenly appears on the streets of New York and promptly gets work as a vaudevillian strongman. When his agent is killed by the "lion of the underworld", Leo Nymia (playing on the Nemean Lion, one of the champion’s twelve labors), he kills Nymia and wipes out his gang. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Hercules (introduction, origin); Leo Nymia (villain, introduction, death); Nymia's gang [Scabroni (introduction); rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Elmer Wexler (signed) |
| Inks | Elmer Wexler (signed) |
| Comic Story | Battle with Shiek Tamah / Gypsy Johnson (5 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Gypsy Johnson (introduction); Sheik Tamah (introduction, villain) |
| Pencils | John Bulthuis (signed) |
| Inks | John Bulthuis (signed) |
| Comic Story | Origin of the Fox / The Fox (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A masked group of men have been terrorizing the countryside by whipping people to death, and The Fox intends to stop them in their tracks. When Ruth is kidnapped by the Night Riders, he is inspired to become the hero while listening to the lyrics of a tune singing about a fox. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Fox [Paul Patton] (introduction, origin); Ruth Ransom (Daily Globe editor, introduction); unnamed Sheriff; The Night Riders (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | Joe Blair (signed) |
| Pencils | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Inks | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Comic Story | Company C Is Trapped / Corporal Collins (6 pages) |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Corporal Collins [Jim Collins]; Slapsie Carr (introduction); The Nazis (villains) |
| Script | Abner J. Sundell ? |
| Pencils | Charles Biro |
| Inks | Charles Biro |
| Text Article | Hunting the Coyote |
| Synopsis | Short article about hunting coyotes while on motorcycles. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1939, Louis H. Silberkleit recorded as editor, perhaps named as a matter of convenience, no supporting evidence he acted as editor. Circulation data not included. |
| Comic Story | The Origin of Ty-Gor / Ty-Gor (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | To atone for the death of a tiger cub, a witch doctor must offer a human sacrifice, and this time it must be a white boy. Tyrone Gorman was offered as a living sacrifice to tigers in the jungles of Malay, but, instead, the tigress Malma raises him and continues his jungle adventures even though he is unaware that he is an heir to a fortune back home. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Ty-Gor [Tyrone Gorman] (introduction, origin); Mr. and Mrs. Gorman (Ty-Gor's parents, introduction, both die); Malma (a tigress); The Gapousas (villains, introduction for all, one dies) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | George Storm |
| Inks | George Storm |
| Notes | Originally credited Mort Meskin. Compared with his signed story in #6, this is not him, but George Storm. Compare also with Storm's story in Hangman #19, with long and lively inklines. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
| Comic Story | The Isle of Right / Doc Strong (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | World War II has lasted to the year 2039 and is thus called the Hundred Year War. It has laid waste to civilizations, and much of humanity is reduced to a barbaric state and conquered by Mongol warlord Gustave Ritter. With a small band set out to rebuilding civilization and science in an underground city on the Isle of Right (an island in the Pacific that they settle), Doc Strong uses one of his inventions: a gun that solidifies shadows, to immobilize those that are attached or touching the shadows. |
| Genre | Adventure; War |
| Characters | Doc Strong (introduction, origin); Alice Rayburn (atomic chemist, introduction); Professor Harrison (electrical engineer, introduction); Dr. Henry Davidge (introduction); Walter Parker (mechanical engineer, introduction); Edward Stuyvesant (cowardly traitorous geologist, introduction); Sampson Smith (Swedish cook, introduction); Gustave Ritter (villain, Mongol warlord, introduction) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Sam Cooper (signed) |
| Inks | Sam Cooper (signed) |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Bring in Homicide Hogan dead or alive, or you loose your new police whistles. |
| Feature | Dipsy and Doodle |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Dipsy (detective); Doodle (detective); Homicide Hogan |
| Pencils | Quincy (signed) |
| Inks | Quincy (signed) |
| First Line | Listen, you dumb dopes... |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Dipsy and Doodle" feature. |
| Comic Story | The Blue Duke / Loop Logan (6 pages) |
| Genre | Aviation; War |
| Characters | Loop Logan (American stunt flyer and ace, introduction); Clatra (Logan's Far-East Indian assistant, introduction); The Blue Duke [Lt. Villon] (villain, introduction)) |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Frank Volpe |
| Inks | Frank Volpe |
| Comic Story | The Coming of the Green Falcon / Green Falcon (6 pages) |
| Genre | Historical |
| Characters | The Green Falcon (introduction, origin); Lady Marion (introduction); Richard the Lion-Hearted (introduction); Prince John (villain, introduction); Sir Boltyn (villain, introduction); the Saracens (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | Harry Shorten (signed) |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe (signed) |
| Inks | Edd Ashe (signed) |
| 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 | |
