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Issue: Blue Bolt #8 [8] Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #8 [8] of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagNovelty / Premium / Curtis
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Novelty Press, Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/13/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): David Adams (uncredited)
Disclose Notes: BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 8, January 1941, published monthly by Novelty Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1168, 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.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Zero
Character(s): Sub-Zero Man
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Pages: 1
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The Rescue of Blue Bolt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby; Joe Simon
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Joe Simon; Al Avison; Al Gabriele
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blue Bolt
Character(s): Blue Bolt [Fred Parrish]; Professor Everett Smith (introduction); Ann Barton (introduction); The Green Sorceress (villain); General Ghron (villain, introduction); Colonel Chag (villain, introduction); Farno (villain, introduction); Carl Pfeifer (villain, introduction)
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Jack Kirby #[2] published January 1997
as War over Radium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Bolt #[nn] published June 1998
as The Rescue Of Blue Bolt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Simon and Kirby Library #[nn] published March 2013
as The Rescue of Blue Bolt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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A Vote For Reynolds Is a Vote For Experience

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sub-Zero
Character(s): Boss Reynolds (villain, introduction); Pierce (villain, introduction); Jim Pierce (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 9
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Prison Break

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Davis
Penciller(s): Bob Davis
Inker(s): Bob Davis
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Cole
Character(s): Casey (villain, introduction); other convicts (villains, introduction)
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Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren]
Penciller(s): Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren]
Inker(s): Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pony Tracks
First Line: Poney...that looks like two humans in distress!
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Pages: 5
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The Ray Master [Part 2]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Andrew McWhiney
Penciller(s): Harry Ramsey
Inker(s): Harry Ramey
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text story with Illustration
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Maniac In the Snow: Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Runaway Ronson
Character(s): Runaway Ronson; Tom Norton (introduction); Thurston (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: All Paul Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul's son.
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Skate Sails

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harold DeLay
Inker(s): Harold DeLay
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Edison Bell
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Pages: 2
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In Ghost Town

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Malcolm Kildale
Penciller(s): Malcolm Kildale
Inker(s): Malcolm Kildale
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sergeant Spook
Character(s): Dr. Sherlock (guest-star); John Paul Jones (introduction, ghost); Adm. Dewey (introduction, ghost); Sir Francis Drake (introduction, ghost); George Washington (introduction, ghost); Captain Kidd (villain, introduction); other ghost pirates (villains, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Kiefer
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Old Cap Hawkin's Tales
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Pages: 2
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Prisoners on the Isle of Zorn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill O'Connor
Penciller(s): Ben Flinton
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Phantom Sub
Character(s): Capt. Crule (villain); Prof. Starkson (introduction); Alicia Starkson (introduction)
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Pages: 7
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The Marshall's Murderers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The White Rider and Super Horse
Character(s): Three killers (villains, introduction)
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Pages: 6

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