Blue Ribbon Comics #2

(December 1939)

[The Vandemeer Arson Case] (Table of Contents)

Rang-A-Tang / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Harr?

Pencils:

Norman Danberg

Inks:

Norman Danberg

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Animal; Detective

Characters:

Rang-A-Tang (dog); Detective Hy Speed; Vandemeer (introduction); Pierre (villain, introduction)

["Fire! Fire!"] (Table of Contents)

Knight Off / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole (signed)

Pencils:

Jack Cole (signed)

Inks:

Jack Cole (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

[The Platinum Asteroid] (Table of Contents)

Dan Hastings / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Clem Gretter

Inks:

Clem Gretter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Science Fiction

Characters:

Dan Hastings, Dr. Carter, Bob and Gloria Carter; Crissman (villain, introduction, death); Arnold Barnes (introduction)

Indexer Notes

last appearance
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.

["The man who smokes with his eyes"] (Table of Contents)

Strange But True / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Wood (signed)

Inks:

Bob Wood (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Fact

Characters:

Alfred Langevin

Synopsis:

Smoking, football and ukulele.

The Scourge of the Underworld (Table of Contents)

Bob Phantom / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Shorten?

Pencils:

Irv Novick

Inks:

Irv Novick

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney] (introduction); Butch Brady; Purple Gang (villain, introduction); Dan Danning (introduction)

[The Stolen Porridge] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Dick Ryan (signed)

Pencils:

Dick Ryan (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ryan (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Funny Animals

Characters:

Sugar; Honey; Huggin; Willie Wolf (villain, introduction)

[Enter: The Marvel] (Table of Contents)

Scoop Cody / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Charles Biro

Inks:

Charles Biro

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Detective

Characters:

Scoop Cody; the Marvel (introduction); King Carr (villain; introduction)

Indexer Notes

Faces with prominent chin, and large hands look much like Biro's early work, as in Corporal Collins in this issue.

Experiment In Death (Table of Contents)

Dan Hastings / text story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Clem Gretter

Inks:

Clem Gretter

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Science Fiction

Characters:

Dan Hastings, Dr. Carter, Bob and Gloria Carter

Indexer Notes

Art notes as for the Dan Hastings story.

[A Bad Bargain: Part 2] (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:

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

Indexer Notes

last appearance
The faces and realistic horses are all identical to his credited stories in Cowboy Western Comics #38, and Hi-Lite Comics #1.

In This Corner! "Billy" Conn! (Table of Contents)

Sport-O-Grams / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Wood (signed)

Inks:

Bob Wood (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Sports; Fact

Characters:

Billy Conn (boxer)

[Murder on the VENTURA] (Table of Contents)

Devils of the Deep / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George Nagle

Pencils:

Edd Ashe?

Inks:

Edd Ashe?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure

Characters:

Devils of the Deep [Jim; Bill; Ted] (introduction)

Indexer Notes

Ashe is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

["That the persimon tree is a source of food..."] (Table of Contents)

Do You Know? / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Fact

[Sabotage At the Balkan Oil Fields] (Table of Contents)

Secret Assignments / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Maurice Gutwirth

Inks:

Maurice Gutwirth

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Spy; Adventure

Characters:

Jack Strand (introduction); Parker Halsey (introduction)

["Maple"] (Table of Contents)

Brain-Teasers / activity / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

[Origin of the Silver Fox] (Table of Contents)

The Silver Fox / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Detective

Characters:

The Silver Fox (a police chief, introduction, origin)

[The Coming of Corporal Collins] (Table of Contents)

Corporal Collins / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Abner Sundell?

Pencils:

Charles Biro

Inks:

Charles Biro

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

War

Characters:

Corporal Jim Collins (introduction, origin); The Nazis (villain)

Indexer Notes

Biro is crdited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Your Second Helping (Table of Contents)

Just a Moment / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Simon?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Indexer Notes

editorial, variour artists