(Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)
There are plenty of Ku Klux Klan- inspired groups in comics and thusfar we've encountered a few: the Blue Devils, the Horned Masks, even the Purple's gang of idiots. All of those examples share one thing: they're just gangs that operate in the country using the intimidation tactics of the KKK but without the goals of reinforcing white supremacy - they're just regular comic book gangs, only in the country.
There's a part of me that wants to say that the Night Riders are closer to being the KKK than the rest of these groups but if I'm honest that's because they have no clear goals - they just go around the countryside abducting, beating and killing people for getting into their business without any clear indication of what that business is. It could just as easily be organized insurance fraud as domestic racial terrorism, because the real reason the Night Riders are doing all this is so that they can beat up newspaper photographer Paul Patton and inspire him to become the Fox.
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