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Issue Details

Issue #v2#12 [24]
Published May 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stanley Beaman (?)
Notes BLUE BOLT Vol. 2 No. 12, May 1942, published monthly by Novelty Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 292 Madison Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. Index revised from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

Cover Details

Pencils Bob Davis
Inks Bob Davis
Notes BLUE BOLT Vol. 2 No. 12, May 1942, published monthly by Novelty Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 292 Madison Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. Index revised from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

1 page text article "Ye Editors' Page"

Letters typeset
Notes The editors give biographical background on several of the artists. On the inside front cover.

12 page Dick Cole story "Farr School is steeped in tradtion..."

Script Bob Davis
Pencils Bob Davis
Inks Bob Davis

7 page Sub-Zero story "It's a 70-mile-an-hour race against time..."

Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly

7 page Sergeant Spook story "Sergeant Spook and Jerry called the pup 'Bozo'..."

Script Kermit Jaediker (signed)
Pencils John Jordan (signed)
Inks John Jordan (signed)

4 page Krisko and Jasper story "Krisko and Jasper have been blown out of the skies..."

Script Jack A. Warren (signed)
Pencils Jack A. Warren (signed)
Inks Jack A. Warren (signed)

Half page text article "Christophe, the Black Emperor of Haiti"

Script Eugene L. Pollock
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes Stamp collecting page.

2 page text story "Terror in the Grass"

Script Mickey Spillane
Letters Typeset
Notes Existence and reprint of this sequence first provided by Arthur Lortie, 6/29/2006. Location confirmed from scan.
Reprinted In "PRIMAL SPILLANE: THE EARLY STORIES, 1941-1942", (edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers, Jr., Gryphon Books, 2003); in Blue Bolt Comics (Star Publications [1949-1954], 1949 series) #106

5 page Edison Bell story "All set? Boy, we could out-ride a hurricane..."

Script Ray Gill (credited)
Pencils Harold DeLay (credited)
Inks Harold DeLay (credited)

1 page activity "Convert Your Rowboat into a Sailboat"

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

6 page The White Rider and Super Horse story "As the steel trails of the iron horse wound their way westward..."

6 page The Phantom Sub story "Naval Intelligence in Washington is all aflutter..."

Script Bill O'Connor [as FOS]
Pencils Ben Flinton [as FOS]
Inks Leonard Sansone [as FOS]

4 page Old Cap Hawkins' Tales story "Les Terribles"

Script Henry Kiefer
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

8 page Blue Bolt the American story "We shoulda done this long ago!"

Pencils George Mandel (signed)
Inks George Mandel (signed)
Notes Surreal story which repeatedly breaks the fourth wall.

1 page Bluebolts and Nuts filler "I'm sorry but there is no one named Lucifer Smottz working here..."