Issue Details

Issue	V2#5 [17]
Published	October 1941
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	David Adams ?
Notes	Indicia title: BLUE BOLT.

Cover Details

Characters	Dick Cole; Simba Karno
Pencils	Bob Davis (signed)
Inks	Bob Davis (signed)

1 page Ye Editors' Page letters page

Letters	typeset
Notes	On inside front cover.

11 page Dick Cole story "Dick and Eddie March, having completed a summer sojourn on the Mississippi River..."

Characters	Dick Cole; Simba Karno (villain; reforms after this story)
Script	Bob Davis
Pencils	Bob Davis (signed)
Inks	Bob Davis (signed)

7 page Sergeant Spook story "Sergeant Spook has come upon a ghost cyclops..."

Characters	Sgt. Spook; ghost Cyclops (villain); Hercules (as a ghost; introduction)
Pencils	Malcolm Kildale (signed)
Inks	Malcolm Kildale (signed)

7 page Twister story "In the Painted Desert"

Script	Ray Gill
Pencils	Paul Gustavson
Inks	Paul Gustavson

6 page The Phantom Sub story "Involuntary 'outlaws,' the Phantom Crew and their super-submarine, the Phantom Sub..."

Script	Bill O'Connor
Pencils	Ben Flinton
Inks	Leonard Sansone

2 page Krisko and Jasper text story "Krisko and Jasper on Sea Horse Island"

Script	Ray Gill
Pencils	Jack A. Warren (illustration)
Inks	Jack A. Warren (illustration)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Continued in next issue.

3 page Edison Bell story "Edison Bell and Jerry have won a round trip to the South Seas!"

Script	Ray Gill (credited)
Pencils	Harold DeLay (credited)
Inks	Harold DeLay (credited)
Notes	Continued in next issue.

1 page Edison Bell activity "Paper-Tube Periscope!"

Pencils	Ray Gill (signed)
Inks	Ray Gill (signed)

6 page The White Rider and Super Horse story "While hurrying through the sheer walls of Canyon Diablo..."

2 page Old Cap Hawkins' Tale story "Shoot If You Must, This Old Grey Head--But Spare Your Country's Flag!"

Script	Henry Kiefer
Pencils	Henry Kiefer
Inks	Henry Kiefer

6 page Blue Bolt the American story "Being an account of this famous character's reinstatement as an American citizen..."

Characters	Blue Bolt (origin retold; brotherhood with Kip Parrish revealed; known as "Blue Bolt, the American" from this story onward); Kip Parrish; Bertoff
Pencils	Alan Mandel
Inks	Alan Mandel

4 page Krisko and Jasper story "Yanh! You're just teacher's pet, you are!"

Script	Jack A. Warren
Pencils	Jack A. Warren (signed)
Inks	Jack A. Warren (signed)
Notes	Continued in next issue.

9 page Sub-Zero story "Here's a kid with a sense of humor that will send chills up your spine!"

Characters	Sub-Zero; Freezum (introduction; origin; Sub-Zero's sidekick)
Pencils	John Daly
Inks	John Daly