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..."