Issue Details

Issue	#v1#4 [4]
Published	September 1940
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	David Adams
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.

Cover Details

Pencils	Bill Everett
Inks	Bill Everett
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.

10 page Blue Bolt story "The Shrinking Serum"

Characters	V: Green Sorceress, Maj. Varikhan (I, D), Gallus (I, D)
Script	Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon; Al Avison; Al Gabriele
Reprinted	in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2; in Best of Simon and Kirby, The (Titan Books, 2009 series) #[nn]

7 page Dick Cole story "Colossus, Famous Circus Gorilla At Large!!"

Characters	V: Pete and his gang (I for all); I: Colossus (a gorilla)
Script	Bob Davis
Pencils	Bob Davis
Inks	Bob Davis

10 page Sub-Zero Man story "The Green Turtle"

Characters	V: The Green Turtle, Wu Chang, and their gang (I for all); Sub-Zero Man gets a new costume
Script	Larry Antonette?
Pencils	Larry Antonette
Inks	Larry Antonette

2 page Edison Bell story "The Rocket Car"

Pencils

Harry Ramsey

7 page The White Rider and Super Horse story "The Kidnapping of Super Horse"

Characters

V: Ace and his partner (I for both)

5 page Pony Tracks story "You've done gone and got us right into th' middle of a bad fix again!"

Characters	I: Chief Pack-a-Poke
Script	Jack A. Warren
Pencils	Jack A. Warren
Inks	Jack A. Warren

2 page text story "The Mystery of the Little Men [Part 1]"

Characters	Dick Cole
Script	Stockbridge Winslow
Pencils	Harry Ramsey
Inks	Harry Ramsey
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Text story with Illustration

6 page Runaway Ronson story "Three Men From Alcatraz"

Characters	V: Tony Greko, Hank, and another convict (I for all)
Script	Paul Gustavson
Pencils	Paul Gustavson
Inks	Paul Gustavson

2 page Old Cap Hawkin's Tales story "No Taxation Without Representation"

Script	Henry Kiefer
Pencils	Henry Kiefer
Inks	Henry Kiefer

5 page Sergeant Spook story "The Four-Alarm Coverup"

Characters	V: Nick Tarey and his gang (I for all)
Script	Malcolm Kildale
Pencils	Malcolm Kildale
Inks	Malcolm Kildale

8 page The Phantom Sub story "Tong-Lu-Mong"

Characters	V: Lu Mong and the Tong-Lu-Mong (all I, D)
Script	Bill O'Connor
Pencils	Ben Flinton
Inks	Leonard Sansone

1 page Spacehawk promo (ad from the publisher) "The Vulture Men From the Void"

Script	Basil Wolverton
Pencils	Basil Wolverton
Inks	Basil Wolverton
Notes	On the inside back cover.