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Issue Details

Issue #v1#10 [10]
Published March 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing David Adams
Notes BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 10, March 1941, published monthly by Novelty Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 292 Madison Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. Index revised from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

Cover Details

Pencils George Mandel [as George Van Dell] (signed)
Inks George Mandel [as George Van Dell] (signed)
Notes BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 10, March 1941, published monthly by Novelty Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 292 Madison Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. Index revised from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

10 page Blue Bolt story "Rocky Roberts Takes Over"

Characters V: Green Sorceress, Rocky Roberts (D), Gen. Feng (I)
Script Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon; Al Avison; Al Gabriele
Notes First line: "'Rocky' Roberts -- gang-leader...stows away on a rocket ride..."
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2

9 page Dick Cole story The Lynch Mob's "Justice"

Characters V: Jeb Harker (I); I: Grant
Script Bob Davis
Pencils Bob Davis
Inks Bob Davis
Notes First line: "A blustering, wintry night --- Dick, and his roommate at Farr Military academy, Ed March, are in their dormitory room..."

9 page Sub-Zero story "The Heat Ray"

Characters V: Fargall and his gang (I for all); I: Dr. Peterson
Script Bill Everett?
Pencils Bill Everett?
Inks Bill Everett?
Notes First line: "It's a hold-up!"

5 page Sergeant Spook story "War Against King Tut"

Characters V: King Tut-Ankh-Amen
Script Malcolm Kildale
Pencils Malcolm Kildale
Inks Malcolm Kildale
Notes First line: "Sergeant Spook...having witnessed the slavery of the ghosts of northern Africa..."

2 page Blue Bolt's Short Short Story text story "Morse Medicine"

Script Andrew McWhiney
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Letters Typeset

6 page The White Rider and Super Horse story "The Mad Sheepherders"

Pencils Al Anders
Inks Al Anders
Notes First line: "Reared in a strange 'lost canyon' where the strong pull of gravity caused a super development of their muscular powers..."

1 page Edison Bell story "The Ray-Radio"

Pencils Harold DeLay
Inks Harold DeLay

Half page activity "Make These Papercup Telephones"

Script Ray Gill (signed)
Pencils Ray Gill (signed)
Inks Ray Gill (signed)

6 page Runaway Ronson story "The Stevens Lumber Race"

Characters V: Cartier, Hank, and their gang; I: Shanty Overholt
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson
Notes First line: "The cold hands of death reach out for the fifth time..."

2 page Old Cap Hawkin's Tales story "We Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly We Shall All Hang Separately..."

Script Henry Kiefer
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

5 page Pony Tracks story "The Purple Cow Rodeo is over..."

Synopsis Jasper and Crisco enlist in the Horse Marines
Script Jack A. Warren (credited)
Pencils Jack A. Warren (credited)
Inks Jack A. Warren (credited)

8 page The Phantom Sub story "The Sinister Cannery"

Characters V: A gang of fifth columnists (I)
Script Bill O'Connor [as FOS]
Pencils Ben Flinton [as FOS]
Inks Leonard Sansone [as FOS]
Notes First line: "With the totalitarian states of the world plotting..."