Digital Comic Museum - Blue Ribbon Comics 02 (1939)


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Issue: #2
Published: December 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Louis Silberkleit; Harry Chesler
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 431785.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Featuring Rang-A-Tang
Featuring:	Rang-A-Tang
Credits:	Pencils: Edd Ashe ? \| Inks: Edd Ashe ?
Genre:	Animal
Characters:	Rang-a-Tang

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Vandemeer Arson Case
Featuring:	Rang-A-Tang
Credits:	Script: Norman Danberg (signed) \| Pencils: Edd Ashe ? \| Inks: Edd Ashe ?
Genre:	Animal Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rang-A-Tang (dog) Detective Hy Speed Vandemeer (introduction) Pierre (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Platinum Asteroid
Featuring:	Dan Hastings
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.
Credits:	Script: Ken Fitch \| Pencils: Clem Gretter \| Inks: Clem Gretter
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Dan Hastings Dr. Carter Bob Carter Gloria Carter (Dr. Carter's Daughter) Crissman (villain, Introduction, Death) Arnold Barnes (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	A Bad Bargain: Part 2
Featuring:	Buck Stacey
Credits:	Script: W. M. Allison \| Pencils: W. M. Allison \| Inks: W. M. Allison
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Buck Stacey (range Detective) Sandra Cummings (rancher) Steve Vance (crooked Rancher) Ben Hackerman (foreman)

Text Story (4 pages)	Experiment in Death
Featuring:	Dan Hastings
Credits:	Script: Ken Fitch \| Pencils: Clem Gretter \| Inks: Clem Gretter \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Dan Hastings Dr. Carter Bob Carter Gloria Carter (Dr. Carter's Daughter)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Knight Off
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole (signed) \| Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole (signed)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (6 pages)	Enter: The Marvel
Featuring:	Scoop Cody
Synopsis:	A white masked individual called The Marvel helps Scoop track down King Carr.
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Biro \| Inks: Charles Biro
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Scoop Cody (newspaperman) The Marvel (introduction) King Carr (villain Introduction)

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring:	Strange But True
Synopsis:	Smoking, football and ukulele.
Credits:	Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) \| Inks: Bob Wood (signed) \| Letters: Typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction
Characters:	Alfred Langevin

Comic Story (2 pages)	The Stolen Porridge
Featuring:	Sugar, Honey and Huggin'
Credits:	Script: Dick Ryan (signed) \| Pencils: Dick Ryan (signed) \| Inks: Dick Ryan (signed)
Genre:	Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
Characters:	Sugar Honey Huggin Willie Wolf (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (1 page)	In This Corner! "Billy" Conn!
Featuring:	Sport-O-Grams
Credits:	Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) \| Inks: Bob Wood (signed)
Genre:	Non-fiction Sports
Characters:	Billy Conn (boxer)

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring:	Do You Know?
Credits:	Script: Richard Speed ? \| Pencils: Richard Speed ? \| Inks: Richard Speed ? \| Letters: Typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Scourge of the Underworld
Featuring:	Bob Phantom
Credits:	Script: Harry Shorten ? \| Pencils: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney] (introduction) Butch Brady (introduction) Dan Danning (introduction) The Purple Gang (villains, Introduction For All)

Activity (1 page)
Featuring:	Brain-Teasers

Comic Story (5 pages)	Murder on the VENTURA
Featuring:	Devils of the Deep
Credits:	Script: George Nagle \| Pencils: Edd Ashe ? \| Inks: Edd Ashe ?
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Devils Of The Deep [Jim Bill Ted] (introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Sabotage at the Balkan Oil Fields
Featuring:	Secret Assignments
Credits:	Pencils: Maurice Gutwirth \| Inks: Maurice Gutwirth
Genre:	Adventure Spy
Characters:	Jack Strand (introduction) Parker Halsey (introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Origin of the Silver Fox
Featuring:	The Silver Fox
Credits:	Pencils: Maurice Gutwirth \| Inks: Maurice Gutwirth
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	The Silver Fox (a Police Chief, Introduction, Origin)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Coming of Corporal Collins
Featuring:	Corporal Collins
Credits:	Script: Abner Sundell ? \| Pencils: Charles Biro ? \| Inks: Charles Biro ?
Genre:	War
Characters:	Corporal Collins [Jim Collins] (introduction, Origin) The Nazis (villains)

Text Article (1 page)	Your Second Helping
Featuring:	Just a Moment
Credits:	Letters: Typeset

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