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Issue: Blue Ribbon Comics #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1942
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Issues: #22 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/31/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date calculated from on-sale dates of preceding issues and multiple house ads with "on sale about the 30th of every month" as printed in issues of Top Notch Comics.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Flag [Tom Townsend] (also in inset); Black Hand; Rang-a-Tang (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Due to the signature being in the very bottom left corner, many times it was cropped or partially cropped from the cover. The location is also prone to damage, further obscuring the signature.
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The Black Hand's Pirate Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Flag [Tom Townsend]; The Black Hand (villain, death)
Synopsis: Captain Flag finally succeeds in capturing the Black Hand and thwarts his piracy scheme, and the evil villain is hung from the yardarm.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Final appearance of the "Captain Flag" feature, except for a public service announcement in Archie's Weird Mysteries (Archie, 2000 Series) #13.

Next appearance of Captain Flag [Tom Townsend] in Mighty Crusaders #4 (1966).
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The Sacrifice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Character(s): Scott (villain, introduction, death); A small dog (introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Rang-A-Tang" feature.
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The Fingerless Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fox [Paul Patton]; Ruth Ransom (reporter); The Mandarin (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: A rash of fingerless corpses found in the East River attracts the attention of reporter Ruth Ransom, so she tracks the murders to a hidden opium den in a Chinese museum and is captured by the man only known as the Mandarin. Luckily for her, she was followed by the Fox who rescues her from the death trap and sends the Mandarin to the doom he granted so many others: a pit with a ladder whose rungs conceal blades that slice the fingers when grabbed.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Next appearance of the Fox [Paul Patton] in Mighty Crusaders #4 (1966).

Originally pencils were credited "Bob Montana ?", but with all the slim figures and heads at an angle popping in from the panel borders, it must be King on pencils.

This is the final appearance of the "The Fox" feature in Blue Ribbon Comics. It will next appear in Mighty Comics (Archie, 1966 Series), starting with #49 (August 1967).
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The Last Mission

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Corporal Collins [Jim Collins]; The Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Corporal Jim Collins appears next in Pep Comics #26.

This is the final appearance of the "Corporal Collins" feature.
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Beethoven

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Ludwig Von Beethoven (origin)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Warren King?", but none of his sleek figures or heads popping out of the borders are found.
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The Warren House Curse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. Frank Payne (introduction, death); Dr. Wallace (introduction, death); John Payne (introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Tales from the Witch's Cauldron" feature in Blue Ribbon Comics. It will next appear in Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) starting with #26 (May 1942), with a new name: "Stories of the Black Witch".
Originally credited to Sam Cooper, but this is the same art as on the signed Mr. Justice story in #21, Jim Phillips.
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Leonardo Da Vinci

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (origin)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Warren King?", but none of his sleek figures or heads popping out of the borders are found. This is the same unknown artist that made some Fran Frazer and Zambini stories. Notice very narrow and pointed ears, and long creepy fingers.
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The Ghost of Rogers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Mr. Justice [Prince James] (origin retold in flashback); Sir Harold Rogers (villain, introduction, death); The Ghost of Rogers (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Mr. Justice" feature in Blue Ribbon Comics. However, the feature has also been appearing in Jackpot Comics (Archie, 1941 Series) and will continue there.

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