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Series: Blue Ribbon Comics

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Publisher: Archie

Title: Blue Ribbon Comics
Issue: 4
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: June 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Abner Sundell

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Blue Ribbon Comics #4
Owner: RedGiant

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Corporal Collins
Pages:1
Pencils:Charles Biro (signed)
Inks:Charles Biro (signed)
Characters:Corporal Collins; Rang-a-Tang (inset); Hercules (inset)


Story Title: The Canal Zone Murder Case - comic story
Features:Rang-A-Tang
Pages:10.5
Pencils:Ed Smalle
Inks:Ed Smalle
Characters:V: Wheeler (I)


Story Title: Hercules Slays the Lion of Nemea!! - comic story
Features:Hercules
Pages:8
Pencils:Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Inks:Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Hercules (introduction, origin); Leo Nymia (villain, introduction, death); Nymia's gang [Scabroni (introduction); rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:Hercules suddenly appears on the streets of New York and promptly gets work as a vaudevillian strongman. When his agent is killed by the "lion of the underworld", Leo Nymia (playing on the Nemean Lion, one of the champions twelve labors), he kills Nymia and wipes out his gang.


Story Title: Battle with Shiek Tamah - comic story
Features:Gypsy Johnson
Pages:5
Pencils:John Bulthuis (signed)
Inks:John Bulthuis (signed)
Genre:adventure
Characters:Gypsy Johnson (introduction); Sheik Tamah (introduction, villain)


Story Title: Origin of the Fox - comic story
Features:The Fox
Pages:6
Pencils:Irwin Hasen (signed)
Inks:Irwin Hasen (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Fox [Paul Patton] (introduction, origin); Ruth Ransom (Daily Globe editor, introduction); unnamed Sheriff; The Night Riders (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:A masked group of men have been terrorizing the countryside by whipping people to death, and The Fox intends to stop them in their tracks. When Ruth is kidnapped by the Night Riders, he is inspired to become the hero while listening to the lyrics of a tune singing about a fox.


Story Title: Company C Is Trapped - comic story
Features:Corporal Collins
Pages:6
Pencils:Charles Biro
Inks:Charles Biro
Genre:war
Characters:Corporal Collins [Jim Collins]; Slapsie Carr (introduction); The Nazis (villains)


Story Title: Hunting the Coyote - text article
Pages:0.5
Letters:Typeset
Synopsis:Short article about hunting coyotes while on motorcycles.


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Origin of Ty-Gor - comic story
Features:Ty-Gor
Pages:6
Pencils:George Storm
Inks:George Storm
Genre:jungle
Characters:Ty-Gor [Tyrone Gorman] (introduction, origin); Mr. and Mrs. Gorman (Ty-Gor's parents, introduction, both die); Malma (a tigress); The Gapousas (villains, introduction for all, one dies)
Synopsis:To atone for the death of a tiger cub, a witch doctor must offer a human sacrifice, and this time it must be a white boy. Tyrone Gorman was offered as a living sacrifice to tigers in the jungles of Malay, but, instead, the tigress Malma raises him and continues his jungle adventures even though he is unaware that he is an heir to a fortune back home.


Story Title: The Isle of Right - comic story
Features:Doc Strong
Pages:7
Pencils:Sam Cooper (signed)
Inks:Sam Cooper (signed)
Genre:adventure; war
Characters:Doc Strong (introduction, origin); Alice Rayburn (atomic chemist, introduction); Professor Harrison (electrical engineer, introduction); Dr. Henry Davidge (introduction); Walter Parker (mechanical engineer, introduction); Edward Stuyvesant (cowardly traitorous geologist, introduction); Sampson Smith (Swedish cook, introduction); Gustave Ritter (villain, Mongol warlord, introduction)
Synopsis:World War II has lasted to the year 2039 and is thus called the Hundred Year War. It has laid waste to civilizations, and much of humanity is reduced to a barbaric state and conquered by Mongol warlord Gustave Ritter. With a small band set out to rebuilding civilization and science in an underground city on the Isle of Right (an island in the Pacific that they settle), Doc Strong uses one of his inventions: a gun that solidifies shadows, to immobilize those that are attached or touching the shadows.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Dipsy and Doodle
Pages:1
Pencils:? [as Quincy] (signed)
Inks:? [as Quincy] (signed)
Genre:humor
Characters:Dipsy (detective); Doodle (detective); Homicide Hogan
Synopsis:Bring in Homicide Hogan dead or alive, or you loose your new police whistles.


Story Title: The Blue Duke - comic story
Features:Loop Logan
Pages:6
Pencils:Frank Volp
Inks:Frank Volp
Genre:aviation; war
Characters:Loop Logan (American stunt flyer and ace, introduction); Clatra (Logan's Far-East Indian assistant, introduction); The Blue Duke [Lt. Villon] (villain, introduction))


Story Title: The Coming of the Green Falcon - comic story
Features:Green Falcon
Pages:6
Pencils:Edd Ashe (signed)
Inks:Edd Ashe (signed)
Genre:historical
Characters:The Green Falcon (introduction, origin); Lady Marion (introduction); Richard the Lion-Hearted (introduction); Prince John (villain, introduction); Sir Boltyn (villain, introduction); the Saracens (villains, introduction for all)


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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