Blue Ribbon Comics #1

(November 1939)

["I'm always on the winning side!"] (Table of Contents)

Hold That Line! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Humor; Gags

Indexer Notes

inside front cover

Hello (Table of Contents)

Just a Moment / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Simon?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Indexer Notes

Editorial, various artists.

[Origin of Rang-a-Tang] (Table of Contents)

Rang-A-Tang / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Harr?

Pencils:

Norman Danberg (signed)

Inks:

Norman Danberg (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Animal; Detective

Characters:

I & O: Rang-A-Tang (a dog); I: Hy Speed; V: Blackie Blade (I)

[The Mexidian Raiders] (Table of Contents)

Dan Hastings / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Clem Gretter

Inks:

Clem Gretter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Science Fiction

Characters:

I: Dan Hastings, Dr. Carter, Bob and Gloria Carter; V: Europas, Ursulis (I for both)

Indexer 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.

A Bad Bargain (Table of Contents)

Buck Stacey / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Allison

Inks:

Bill Allison

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

WEstern

Characters:

I: Buck Stacey (range detective); Sandra Cummings (rancher); Steve Vance (crooked rancher); Ben Hackerman (foreman)

Indexer Notes

continued next issue; story in black, white, and red
The faces and realistic horses are all identical to his credited stories in Cowboy Western Comics #38, and Hi-Lite Comics #1.

[The Picnic] (Table of Contents)

Foxy Grandpa / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; sports; baseball

[The Trap] (Table of Contents)

Sugar, Honey, and Huggin' / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Ryan (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ryan (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Funny Animals

Characters:

I: Sugar, Honey, and Huggin' (three bears); V: Billy Fox (I)

Indexer Notes

Signed on second page.

Secret Agent--B.O. (Table of Contents)

Ima Slooth / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

I: Ima Slooth

Indexer Notes

next app. in ?

[The Big Fight] (Table of Contents)

Boodini the Great / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

I: Boodini (a magician)

Indexer Notes

only appearance

[The Radium Ore Robber] (Table of Contents)

Burk of the Briny / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure

Characters:

I: Jack Burk; V: Johnson (I, D)

Indexer Notes

only appearance; story in black and white

[Down With the King] (Table of Contents)

King Kole's Court / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George Nagle (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Fantasy; Humor; Period

Characters:

I: King Kole (only app.)

Village of Missing Men (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Cliff Thorndyke (byline)

Pencils:

Cliff Thorndyke (byline)

Inks:

Cliff Thorndyke (byline)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure; Jungle

Indexer Notes

story in black, white, and red
Thorndyke is only credited as byline by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Death Around the Bend (Table of Contents)

text story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Pat Gleason

Pencils:

Norman Danberg

Inks:

Norman Danberg

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure; Jungle

Characters:

Jim Steele

Indexer Notes

Art identical to Rang-A-Tang story.

[The Man In the Moon] (Table of Contents)

Little Nemo / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob McKay

Pencils:

Bob McKay

Inks:

Bob McKay

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Fantasy

Characters:

RI: Little Nemo, Dr. Pill, Flip; V: The Man In the Moon and a Moon Man (I for both)

Indexer Notes

next app. in ?
McCay credited as writer and artist by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

The Murderous Red Keenan Gang (Table of Contents)

Crime On the Run / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Detective Cody; Lieut. Storey; Keenan Gang

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in The Weekender (Rucker Publications Ltd., 1945 series) #v2#1 (January 1946)

Indexer Notes

true-crime story