Blue Ribbon Comics

Blue Ribbon Comics
Cover of Blue Ribbon Comics vol. 1, 1 (Nov 1939). Art by Norman Danberg.
Publication information
Publisher	MLJ Comics
Schedule	Monthly (actually irregular)
Publication date(s)	November 1939 - March 1942
No. of issues	22
Main character(s)	Mr. Justice Captain Flag The Fox Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog Loop Logan, Air Ace Corporal Collins, Infantryman Ty-Gor, Son of the Jungle

Blue Ribbon Comics vol 2
Cover of Blue Ribbon Comics vol. 2, 1 (Nov 1983). Art by Steve Ditko & Rudy Nebres.
Publication information
Publisher	Red Circle Comics (issues #1-4) Archie Comics (issues #5-14)
Schedule	Monthly
Format	standard
Genre	superhero
Publication date(s)	November 1983 - December 1984
No. of issues	14
Main character(s)	The Fly The Shield Mr. Justice The Fly and Flygirl Jaguar Black Hood
Creative team
Written by	Joe Simon, Robin Snyder, Bill DuBay, Rich Buckler, Stan Timmons, Martin L. Greim, Paul Kupperberg
Artist(s)	Jack Kirby, Trevor Von Eeden, Gray Morrow, Steve Ditko, Martin L. Greim, Pat Boyette
Penciller(s)	Trevor Von Eeden, Dick Ayers
Inker(s)	Alex Niño, Tony DeZuniga
Editor(s)	Rich Buckler

Blue Ribbon Comics is the name of two American comic book anthology series, the first published by the Archie Comics predecessor MLJ Magazines Inc., commonly known as MLJ Comics, during the 1930s and 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books, and the second published in the 1980s by Archie Comics under the Red Circle and Archie Adventure Series banners.

Blue Ribbon Comics was also the title of an unrelated six-issue comic book series published in 1948–1949 by St. John Publications.

The first series of Blue Ribbon Comics #1-22 (Nov. 1939 - March 1942) was a 64-page anthology comic published by MLJ Magazines Inc., commonly known as MLJ Comics, the precursor to what would become the publisher Archie Comics. Issues #9-18 and #22 were cover-titled Blue Ribbon Mystery Comics. The series was edited by Harry Shorten.

The first title published by MLJ, Blue Ribbon Comics initially ran a mixture of content, in the manner of most early comic books. These included the science-fiction feature "Dan Hastings" (#1-2), crime, short humor fillers, and adventure tales such as, from issue #1, "Burk of the Briny" in #1 and Cliff Thorndyke's African adventure "Village of Missing Men". "Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog", the tales of an intelligent dog in the Rin Tin Tin vein, written by Joe Blair and primarily drawn by Ed Smalle, was the only feature to appear in every issue. Another, "Corporal Collins, Infantryman", a war feature drawn by Charles Biro, about a U.S. soldier stranded in France when World War II breaks out was in every issue but the first. As all comic books did through the early 1960s, to satisfy U.S. Postal Service requirements for magazine rates, Blue Ribbon Comics also contained text stories, sometimes about characters from the comics features, such as the titular cowboy Buck Stacey.