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Issue: Blue Ribbon Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1940
 
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Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/28/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Statement of Ownership
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Corporal Collins; Rang-a-Tang (inset); Hercules (inset)
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FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #1 published November 1983
as [untitled] [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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The Canal Zone Murder Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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V: Wheeler (I)
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Miscellaneous
10.5
Hercules Slays the Lion of Nemea!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Hercules (introduction, origin); Leo Nymia (villain, introduction, death); Nymia's gang [Scabroni (introduction); rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
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 champion’s twelve labors), he kills Nymia and wipes out his gang.
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Miscellaneous
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Battle with Shiek Tamah

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Gypsy Johnson (introduction); Sheik Tamah (introduction, villain)
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Miscellaneous
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Origin of the Fox

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Fox [Paul Patton] (introduction, origin); Ruth Ransom (Daily Globe editor, introduction); unnamed Sheriff; The Night Riders (villains, introduction for all)
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.
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Miscellaneous
6
Company C Is Trapped

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
war
Corporal Collins [Jim Collins]; Slapsie Carr (introduction); The Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
6
Hunting the Coyote

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Short article about hunting coyotes while on motorcycles.
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Miscellaneous
0.66
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.34
Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1939, Louis H. Silberkleit recorded as editor, perhaps named as a matter of convenience, no supporting evidence he acted as editor. Circulation data not included.
The Origin of Ty-Gor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
jungle
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)
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.
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Miscellaneous
6
George Storm by comparing with Storm's story in Hangman #19, with long and lively inklines.
The Isle of Right

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, war
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)
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.
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Dipsy and Doodle
Dipsy (detective); Doodle (detective); Homicide Hogan
Listen, you dumb dopes...
Bring in Homicide Hogan dead or alive, or you loose your new police whistles.
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The Blue Duke

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
aviation, war
Loop Logan (American stunt flyer and ace, introduction); Clatra (Logan's Far-East Indian assistant, introduction); The Blue Duke [Lt. Villon] (villain, introduction))
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Miscellaneous
6
The Coming of the Green Falcon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
historical
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)
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Miscellaneous
6

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