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| Wow - Cool canine character . . . ! |
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| Publication | November 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Formerly credited to Norman Danberg, but Danberg was a writer. |
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| Cover | Meet Rang-A-Tang "The Wonder Dog" |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Detective-mystery | Characters: Rang-A-Tang (dog); Detective Hy Speed |
| Notes | Formerly credited to Norman Danberg, but Danberg was a writer. |
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| Featuring | Hold That Line! |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | inside front cover
This is the only appearance of the "Hold That Line!" feature. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Hello (1 page) |
| Featuring | Just a Moment |
| Notes | Editorial, various artists. |
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| Comic Story | Origin of 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. |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Detective-mystery | Characters: Rang-A-Tang (a dog) (introduction); Hy Speed (detective, introduction); Amazing Boy [Ritchie Waters]; Blackie Blade (villain, introduction) |
| 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. |
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| Comic Story | The Mexidian Raiders (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dan Hastings; Dr. Carter; Bob Carter; Gloria Carter; Europas (villain); Ursulis (villain) |
| 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). |
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| Comic Story | A Bad Bargain (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. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buck Stacey (range detective, introduction); Sandra Cummings (rancher); Steve Vance (villain, crooked rancher); Ben Hackerman (villain, foreman) |
| 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. |
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| Featuring | Brain-Teasers |
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| Comic Story | The Picnic (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports |
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| Comic Story | The Trap (2 pages) |
| Credits | Colors:? (black, white, and red) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Sugar; Honey; Huggin' (three bears); Billy Fox (Introduction, villain) |
| Notes | Signed on second page. |
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| Comic Story | Secret Agent -- B.O. (3 pages) |
| Credits | Colors:? (black, white, and red) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ima Slooth (introduction) |
| 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). |
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| Credits | Colors:? (black, white, and red) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Big Fight (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boodini (a magician / escape artist) |
| 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. |
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| Comic Story | The Radium Ore Robber (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Burk of the Briny |
| Credits | Colors:? (black, white, and red) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Burk (introduction); Johnson (villain, dies) |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Burk of the Briny" feature.
story in black and white and red. |
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| Featuring | Ages of Animals |
| Credits | Colors:? (black, white, and red) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Hand lettered text with illustrations. Former Chesler feature. |
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| Comic Story | Down with the King (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Fantasy; Historical | Characters: King Kole |
| Notes | The "King Kole's Kort" feature usually appears in Keen Komics (Centaur, 1939 Series). This is its only appearance in Blue Ribbon Comics. |
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| 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. |
| Featuring | Joe Jordan |
| Credits | Script:? [as Cliff Thorndyke] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Joe Jordan of the Diamond Patrol (introduction); Denny (introduction); Barrett (villain, introduction); Barrett's gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| 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. |
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| Text Story | Death around the Bend (5 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Jim Steele |
| Notes | Art identical to Rang-A-Tang story. |
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| Comic Story | The Man in the Moon (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Little Nemo; Dr. Pill; Flip; The Man in the Moon (villain); a Moon Man |
| Notes | next app. in ?
McCay credited as writer and artist by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| 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). |
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| Comic Story | The Murderous "Red" Keenan Gang (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Crime | Characters: Detective Cody; Lieutenant Storey; Keenan Gang (villains) |
| Notes | true-crime story |
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