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Issue Details

Issue #v8#4 [82]
Published September 1947
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Robert D. Wheeler (Editor and General Manager)
Notes BLUE BOLT, Vol. 8, No. 4, September, 1947, published monthly by The Premium Group of Comics, a Division of The Premium Service Co. Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 119 West 19th Street, New York 11, N. Y. Sequences reordered, sequence added, and some other information from Len Wolinsky via the GCD Errors list, September 2009. Additional information from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

Cover Details

Pencils Wayne Boring [as Jack Harmon] (signed)
Inks Wayne Boring [as Jack Harmon] (signed)

1 page Blue Bolt Flashes letters page

Letters typeset
Notes On inside front cover.

9 page Dick Cole story "Dick Cole, winner of last year's cross-country race..."

Pencils James Wilcox (credited)
Inks James Wilcox (credited)

Half page filler "I have to go to the store and buy some flea soap!!"

Genre Gag
Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)

5 page Krisko and Jasper story "The Drippie Caverns"

Script Jack A. Warren
Pencils Jack A. Warren (credited)
Inks Jack A. Warren (credited)
Notes Last appearance.

11 page Rick Richards story "Two killer bulls, a television camera, a comedian, a frog..."

Half page filler Gee, that piece of cake I had at your house yesterday was terrible!!"

Genre Gag
Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)

2 page text story "Right from the Horse's Mouth"

Script Mickey Marks [as Mickey Klar Marks]
Pencils Jack A. Warren (illustration)
Inks Jack A. Warren (illustration)
Letters Typeset

3 page Boitram the Boiglar story "I'm tired of climbin' up windows..."

Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant

6 page Blue Bolt story "Matching his helicopter against a new jet plane..."

Pencils Wayne Boring [as Jack Harmon] (credited)
Inks Wayne Boring [as Jack Harmon] (credited)

1 page Bluebolts and Nuts filler "Johnny always walks around with a chip on his shoulder!!"

Genre Gag
Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)

1 page Bluebolts and Nuts filler "How do you know that your dog is going to be a good watchdog?"

Genre Gag
Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)

5 page Edison Bell story "Eddie, look at that crazy galoot in the speedboat!"

Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

1 page Edison Bell activity "This Pinhole Camera"

Pencils Tex Blaisdell (signed)
Inks Tex Blaisdell (signed)

1 page Heathcliff the Hobo filler "South or North?"

Genre Gag
Script Art Helfant (signed)
Pencils Art Helfant (signed)
Inks Art Helfant (signed)

1 page Fisk Bike Tires advertisement "In the Shadow of the Thunderbird"

Notes Ad in sequential art form.

1 page Bluebolts and Nuts filler "I burned my finger in a pot of hot water!!"

Genre Gag
Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)
Notes On inside back cover.