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Issue: Blue Ribbon Comics #8

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Publication Date: May 1984

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Detail

Issues: #8 of 14 Issues (24 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved By the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: Archie Adventure Series

Indicia Publisher: Archie Enterprises Inc.

On Sale Date: 03/06/1984

Volume: 2

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0271000693405

Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved By the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Robin Snyder

Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #41, with shipping date of 1984-02-14.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; 1-4 baxter; 5-14 newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Blue Ribbon Comics #8 [Direct]

Blue Ribbon Comics #8 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Rudy Nebres (signed)

Inker(s): Rudy Nebres (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Black Hood

Character(s): Black Hood (both Golden Age and Modern Age)

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Pages: 1

Black Hood

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Gray Morrow

Penciller(s): Gray Morrow

Inker(s): Gray Morrow

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): Gray Morrow

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Hood

Character(s): Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Uncle Matt [the Black Hood from the West]; Damian Doyle (Kip's weapons outfitter and electronics expert); Faye Traynor

Synopsis: While trying to fight corruption in his city, Kip Burland visits his uncle and is told about a secret tradition in the Burland family that may help Kip in his battles. Later that week, a mysterious hooded motorcyclist rescues the kidnapped daughter of one of Kip's witnesses.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Origin of the 1980s Black Hood that ties him into a series of Black Hoods over the generations. The Black Hood that operated during the 1940s and the 1960s is never revealed.

It's Murder to Beat the Odds

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Marv Channing

Penciller(s): Al McWilliams

Inker(s): Al McWilliams

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Hood

Character(s): Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Damian Doyle; Lefty Burkett

Synopsis: The Black Hood takes down a gambling den.

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Pages: 5

Notes: These Black Hood stories were originally intended for publication in a new Black Hood #1 in the early-to-mid 70s.

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Alex Toth (signed)

Inker(s): Alex Toth (signed)

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman ?

Letterer(s): Alex Toth

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Hood; Fox

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Pages: 2

Life's Not Like a Comic Book

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Neal Adams; Gray Morrow (plot)

Penciller(s): Neal Adams

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Hood

Character(s): Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Rhonda Lee; Debbie Wiachek (dies in this story)

Synopsis: When Kip fails to stop a kidnapping in broad daylight, the Black Hoods comes out to find the kidnappers and save their victim.

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Pages: 10

Crusader Comments

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Robin Snyder

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko; Rudy Nebres (illustrations)

Inker(s): Rudy Nebres (illustrations)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Crusader Comments

Character(s): Fly; Shield

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1.5

Notes: Letters page dedicated to Jerry Bails. Letters from Jeff Rovin, Neal Alhadeff, Robert Klein, Linda Garcia and Michael Tierstein, Includes cover repros of the Fly # 7 and The Original Shield # 2.

Appears between pages 5 and 6 of the previous sequence.