Blue Bolt Comics #v1#5 [5]

(October 1940)

[War In the Fourth Dimension] (Table of Contents)

Blue Bolt / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Joe Simon; Al Avison; Al Gabriele

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Green Sorceress (villain); the Unholy One (villain, introduction); Maj. Kadronin (villain, introduction)

Reprints:

• in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #1940-1941 [2]

[Havoc In Hollywood] (Table of Contents)

Dick Cole / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Davis

Pencils:

Bob Davis

Inks:

Bob Davis

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Phil Carp (villain, introduction); Betty Lee (introduction); Bert Hart (introduction); Mr. Cole (Dick's father, introduction); Brown (introduction); Ed (introduction); Petey (introduction)

[The Power of Professor X] (Table of Contents)

Sub-Zero / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Everett (signed)

Pencils:

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks:

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Sub-Zero; District Attorney Johnson (introduction); Hogan (introduction, Policeman, death); Professor X (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Professor X succeeds in killing a patrolman who once put him in jail and now threatens the D.A. who prosecuted the case. Sub-Zero is called in, but nearly loses his life in the electric chair before his wits save his life.

Reprints:

• in Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphics Books, 2012 series) #1

Indexer Notes

The character is still referred to as Sub-Zero Man once in the story.

[The Island of King Robinson] (Table of Contents)

Edison Bell / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Harry Ramsey

Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

King Robinson (introduction)

The Relentless Ghost (Table of Contents)

Sergeant Spook / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Malcolm Kildale

Pencils:

Malcolm Kildale

Inks:

Malcolm Kildale

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Jesse James's ghost (villain); Bob Ford's ghost (villain); their ghost gang (villains, introduction)

Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes (Table of Contents)

Old Cap Hawkin's Tales / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Kiefer

Pencils:

Henry Kiefer

Inks:

Henry Kiefer

Colors:

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Letters:

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["Kerley Koonskin, buffalo hunter, trapper, and trader..."] (Table of Contents)

Pony Tracks / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack A. Warren

Pencils:

Jack A. Warren

Inks:

Jack A. Warren

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Kerley Koonskin (a buffalo hunter, introduction)

The Mystery of the Little Men [Part 2] (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stockbridge Winslow

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Dick Cole

[Death and a Watch] (Table of Contents)

Runaway Ronson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Gustavson

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Riker (villain, introduction); his gang (villains, introduction); Doc Shelton (introduction, death)

[Revenge For a Horse] (Table of Contents)

The White Rider and Super Horse / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Matt Hart (villain, introduction); his two partners (villains, introduction); Bob Gridley (introduction); Annie (introduction); her father (introduction)

[Action In the Arctic Circle] (Table of Contents)

The Phantom Sub / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill O'Connor

Pencils:

Ben Flinton

Inks:

Leonard Sansone

Colors:

?

Letters:

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