Blue Bolt
#v1#4 [4]
(September 1940)
Novelty / Premium / Curtis,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-07-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Novelty Press Inc.
- Editing
- David Adams (uncredited)
Issue 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.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
[no title indexed]
Sub-Zero Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed as Everett)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed as Everett)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Sub-Zero Man
- Reprints
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[The Shrinking Serum]
Blue Bolt / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon; Al Avison; Al Gabriele
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Sorceress (villain); Maj. Varikhan (villain, introduction, death); Gallus (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
-
in The Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #[2] - 1940-1941 (1997) - in Blue Bolt TPB (Verotik, 1998 series) (June 1998)
-
in The Best of Simon and Kirby (Titan, 2009 series) (May 2009) - in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Science Fiction (March 2013)
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Colossus, Famous Circus Gorilla At Large!!
Dick Cole / comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Pete (villain, introduction); his gang (villains, introduction); Colossus (a gorilla, introduction)
[The Green Turtle]
Sub-Zero Man / comic story / 10 pages
- Characters
- The Green Turtle (villain, introduction); Wu Chang (villain, introduction); their gang (villains, introduction); Sub-Zero Man (new costume)
[The Kidnapping of Super Horse]
The White Rider and Super Horse / comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Ace (villain, introduction); his partner (villain, introduction)
- Reprints
- in White Rider (Accepted, 1958 series) #5 ([1958 ?]) which is reprinted
- in Blue Bolt (Gerald G. Swan, 1950 ? series) #5 [Black and white]
-
[no title indexed]
Pony Tracks / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You've done gone and got us right into th' middle of a bad fix again!
- Characters
- Chief Pack-a-Poke (introduction)
The Mystery of the Little Men [Part 1]
text story / 2 pages
- Characters
- Dick Cole
Indexer Notes
Text story with Illustration
[Three Men From Alcatraz]
Runaway Ronson / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Runaway Ronson; Tony Greko (villain, introduction); Hank (villain, introduction); another convict (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
All Paul Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul's son.
[The Four-Alarm Coverup]
Sergeant Spook / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; war
- Characters
- Nick Tarey (villain, introduction); his gang (villains, introduction)
[Tong-Lu-Mong]
The Phantom Sub / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Lu Mong (villain, introduction, death); the Tong-Lu-Mong (villain, introduction, death)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Sub-Zero Man -
1.
[The Shrinking Serum]
Blue Bolt -
2.
Colossus, Famous Circus Gorilla At Large!!
Dick Cole -
3.
[The Green Turtle]
Sub-Zero Man -
4.
[The Rocket Car]
Edison Bell -
5.
[The Kidnapping of Super Horse]
The White Rider and Super Horse -
6.
["You've done gone and got us right into th' middle of a bad fix again!"]
Pony Tracks -
7.
The Mystery of the Little Men [Part 1]
-
8.
[Three Men From Alcatraz]
Runaway Ronson -
9.
No Taxation Without Representation
Old Cap Hawkin's Tales -
10.
[The Four-Alarm Coverup]
Sergeant Spook -
11.
[Tong-Lu-Mong]
The Phantom Sub -
12.
The Vulture Men From the Void
Spacehawk
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