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Issue Details

Issue #v1#4 [4]
Published September 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing David Adams
Notes BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1940, published monthly by Novelty Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 292 Madison Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1940, published monthly by Novelty Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 292 Madison Avenue, New York 11, N. Y.

10 page Blue Bolt story "The Shrinking Serum"

Characters V: Green Sorceress, Maj. Varikhan (I, D), Gallus (I, D)
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon; Al Avison; Al Gabriele
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2; in Best of Simon and Kirby, The (Titan Books, 2009 series) #[nn]

7 page Dick Cole story "Colossus, Famous Circus Gorilla At Large!!"

Characters V: Pete and his gang (I for all); I: Colossus (a gorilla)
Script Bob Davis
Pencils Bob Davis
Inks Bob Davis

10 page Sub-Zero Man story "The Green Turtle"

Characters V: The Green Turtle, Wu Chang, and their gang (I for all); Sub-Zero Man gets a new costume
Script Larry Antonette?
Pencils Larry Antonette
Inks Larry Antonette

2 page Edison Bell story "The Rocket Car"

Pencils Harry Ramsey

7 page The White Rider and Super Horse story "The Kidnapping of Super Horse"

Characters V: Ace and his partner (I for both)

5 page Pony Tracks story "You've done gone and got us right into th' middle of a bad fix again!"

Characters I: Chief Pack-a-Poke
Script Jack A. Warren
Pencils Jack A. Warren
Inks Jack A. Warren

2 page text story "The Mystery of the Little Men [Part 1]"

Characters Dick Cole
Script Stockbridge Winslow
Pencils Harry Ramsey
Inks Harry Ramsey
Letters Typeset
Notes Text story with Illustration

6 page Runaway Ronson story "Three Men From Alcatraz"

Characters V: Tony Greko, Hank, and another convict (I for all)
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson

2 page Old Cap Hawkin's Tales story "No Taxation Without Representation"

Script Henry Kiefer
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

5 page Sergeant Spook story "The Four-Alarm Coverup"

Characters V: Nick Tarey and his gang (I for all)
Script Malcolm Kildale
Pencils Malcolm Kildale
Inks Malcolm Kildale

8 page The Phantom Sub story "Tong-Lu-Mong"

Characters V: Lu Mong and the Tong-Lu-Mong (all I, D)
Script Bill O'Connor
Pencils Ben Flinton
Inks Leonard Sansone

1 page Spacehawk promo (ad from the publisher) "The Vulture Men From the Void"

Script Basil Wolverton
Pencils Basil Wolverton
Inks Basil Wolverton
Notes On the inside back cover.