Volume: 3
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-08-12
Editing: Stanley Beaman ? (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Blue Bolt (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v3#5 [29] Edit Cover
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Sergeant Spook / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
John Jordan (signed)
Inks:
John Jordan (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Sergeant Spook and Jerry learn the orphanage is haunted by live ghosts...
Characters:
Sergeant Spook; Jerry
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Novelty Press Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Printer: ?

Indexer Notes

Indicia title: BLUE BOLT. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.

Buy a Share in America -- Buy U.S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps
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Ye Editors' Page / letters page / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

This is the inside-front cover

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Dick Cole / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Al Fagaly (signed)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Because of the war, the traditions of the Farr Military Academy have to be...

The Moaning Ghosts!
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Sergeant Spook / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
John Jordan (signed)
Inks:
John Jordan (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; war
Characters:
Sergeant Spook; Jerry
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

The Who's Who indicates that Jordan only did pencils on this strip.

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The Phantom Sub / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Guardian of our air lanes - and nemesis of the enemy's undersea's flotillas!

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Krisko and Jasper / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Look sharp, Cowboy!

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text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

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Sub-Zero / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero

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The White Rider and Super Horse / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The White Rider, while on vacation, follows the trail of a mountain lion...

We'll Be Back!
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Old Cap Hawkins' Tales / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:non-fiction; history
Characters:
General MacArthur
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
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Edison Bell / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Well, Hank, it looks as if you're all set for the big Labor Day race tomorrow.

Bandits of the Skies!
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Blue Bolt / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Alan Mandel (signed)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; superhero

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Bluebolts and Nuts / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's th' only way I can get those farm boys up!
Synopsis:
8 one-panel spot gag cartoons.

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Sergeant Spook and Jerry learn the orphanage is haunted by live ghosts..."]
    Sergeant Spook
  2. Buy a Share in America -- Buy U.S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps
    Ye Editors' Page
  3. ["Because of the war, the traditions of the Farr Military Academy have to be..."]
    Dick Cole
  4. The Moaning Ghosts!
    Sergeant Spook
  5. ["The Guardian of our air lanes - and nemesis of the enemy's undersea's flotillas!"]
    The Phantom Sub
  6. ["Look sharp, Cowboy!"]
    Krisko and Jasper
  7. [no title indexed]
  8. [no title indexed]
    Sub-Zero
  9. ["The White Rider, while on vacation, follows the trail of a mountain lion..."]
    The White Rider and Super Horse
  10. We'll Be Back!
    Old Cap Hawkins' Tales
  11. ["Well, Hank, it looks as if you're all set for the big Labor Day race tomorrow."]
    Edison Bell
  12. Bandits of the Skies!
    Blue Bolt
  13. ["It's th' only way I can get those farm boys up!"]
    Bluebolts and Nuts
  14. ["The ForeMost Comic Magazine"]
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