(February 1954)
Ribage,
1953 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ribage Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Adolphe Barreaux
Issue Notes
Indexed from scanned copy at http://digitalcomicmuseum.com
From Out of Nowhere
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Tony Martin; Ricky Raymond; Tina Cauldwell; Jerry Wilson
- Synopsis
- Tony Martin gets Tina a job as singer Ricky’s arranger. Ricky is abrasive and secretive, confiding only in his accompanist Jerry. Tina discovers Ricky just lip-syncs, and Jerry does the actual singing. Jerry explains to Tina that he has terrible stage fright and can’t sing in public. Tina goes to Tony Martin for help: on Ricky’s next show, the cameras suddenly focus on Jerry and Tina urges him to sing to her. His stage fright is cured. Jerry now has a new career and will marry Tina.
Indexer Notes
Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.
The title of this story is taken from a song by Tony Martin: You Came Along (From Out of Nowhere).
Miss Efficiency
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Tabitha "Tabby" Wayne; Bill Hartley; J. Rudley Scoople; Diane Scoople
- Synopsis
- Bill asks employment agency owner Tabby to supply a cook and a maid for a dinner party he’s throwing for publisher J.R. Scoople, hoping he’ll be offered a job. Tabby doesn’t have any available employees, so she fills both roles herself. At the dinner, she becomes jealous of Scoople’s attractive daughter Diane. Afterwards, Bill admits Diane helped him set up the appointment but she’s engaged to someone else: Bill proposes to Tabby.
Spell of Love
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Mike Mandle; Lynn Blance; Serpenta
- Synopsis
- Lynn and her fiancé Mike attend a visiting carnival. Serpenta the Snake Girl hypnotises Mike into falling in love with her. Lynn joins the carnival as a high-diver to be near Mike, but he’s in a trance. Serpenta sends her giant boa constrictor to kill Lynn but Lynn drives it away with an electrical wire and the snake kills Serpenta instead. Mike recovers and will wed Lynn as planned.
- Reprints
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in Weird Love (IDW, 2014 series) #21 (November 2017), #21 (November 2017) [Page 3, panel 3.]
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- Keywords
- carnival; hypnotism
Case for Cupid
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; romance
- Characters
- Tim Matthews; Candy Cassidy; Saunders; John Newton; Sandra Melton; Julie Williams
- Synopsis
- Sandra hires lawyer Tim to defend Saunders, accused of killing his partner. Tim’s secretary Candy is jealous when Tim and Sandra become engaged. Candy learns Sandra was secretly engaged to Saunders but had an affair with his partner, which prompted the murder. Saunders is found guilty and Sandra reveals her true feelings for him. Tim feels foolish that he was used, but now knows he loves Candy.
Indexer Notes
Art credits identified by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
From Out of Nowhere
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2.
Miss Efficiency
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3.
Spell of Love
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4.
Cyd Charisse - Dancing Doll
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5.
Case for Cupid
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