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Issue Details

Issue #v1#5 [5]
Published October 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing David Adams
Notes BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 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 W. E. Rowland
Inks W. E. Rowland
Notes BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 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 "War In the Fourth Dimension"

Characters V: Green Sorceress, the Unholy One (I), Maj. Kadronin (I)
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

7 page Dick Cole story "Havoc In Hollywood"

Characters V: Phil Carp (I); I: Betty Lee, Bert Hart, Mr. Cole (Dick's father), Brown, Ed, Petey
Script Bob Davis
Pencils Bob Davis
Inks Bob Davis

10 page Sub-Zero story "The Power of Professor X"

Characters V: Professor X (I); I: District Attorney Johnson, Hogan (D)
Script Bill Everett
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

2 page Edison Bell story "The Island of King Robinson"

Characters I: King Robinson
Pencils Harry Ramsey

5 page Sergeant Spook story "The Relentless Ghost"

Characters V: Jesse James's ghost, Bob Ford's ghost, and their ghost gang (I for all)
Script Malcolm Kildale
Pencils Malcolm Kildale
Inks Malcolm Kildale

2 page Old Cap Hawkin's Tales story "Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes"

Script Henry Kiefer
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

5 page Pony Tracks story "Kerley Koonskin, buffalo hunter, trapper, and trader..."

Characters I: Kerley Koonskin (a buffalo hunter)
Script Jack A. Warren
Pencils Jack A. Warren
Inks Jack A. Warren

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

Characters Dick Cole
Script Stockbridge Winslow
Letters Typeset

6 page Runaway Ronson story "Death and a Watch"

Characters V: Riker and his gang (I for all); I: Doc Shelton (D)
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson

7 page The White Rider and Super Horse story "Revenge For a Horse"

Characters V: Matt Hart and his two partners (I for all); I: Bob Gridley, Annie and her father

8 page The Phantom Sub story "Action In the Arctic Circle"

Script Bill O'Connor
Pencils Ben Flinton
Inks Leonard Sansone