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Issue Details

Issue #v9#1 [91]
Published June 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Robert D. Wheeler (Editor and General Manager)

Cover Details - "Safe! With Dick Cole!"

Characters Dick Cole
Genre adventure; sports
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams

1 page Blue Bolt Flashes letters page

Script ? [as the editors]
Letters typeset
Notes this is the inside-front cover

9 page Dick Cole story "Safe! with Dick Cole"

Characters Rod Cole (Dick's brother); Laura Bradly (Dick's friend)
Genre Sports
Pencils Jack Hearne
Inks Jack Hearne
Notes Baseball story.

1 page Two-Ton O'Toole filler "Shadow Boxing"

Genre humor
Pencils Art Helfant (signed)

1 page Bluebolts and Nuts filler

Genre humor
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Notes No feature title on this page.

5 page Edison Bell story "We'd better be getting started, Jerry!. It'll be dark before long!"

Genre adventure; boys
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

1 page activity "Anyone Can Make This Conch Horn"

2 page text story "Hicktown"

Letters typeset

5 page Fearless Fellers story "Hey fellers - look at this! Gee! A hundred dollars!"

Genre adventure; boys; sports
Script Ray Gill
Pencils Joe Donohoe
Inks Joe Donohoe

Half page Bluebolts and Nuts filler

Genre humor
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Notes no feature title on this page

8 page Rick Richards story "A sinister new-style pirate cleverly uses the implements of modern warfare..."

Characters Rick Richards (two-fisted cargo-plane owner); Hugh Fort (Canadian Mountie)
Genre adventure

1 page Easy Cartooning activity "Lesson #3"

Script Milt Hammer
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)

7 page Sgt. Spook story "The Knight of Terror"

Genre superhero; occult
Pencils Harry Zee Hoffman (signed); Howard Larsen?
Inks Howard Larsen?

6 page Blue Bolt the American story "How did the daring pilot for Glimpses the Picture Magazine get the name of Blue Bolt?"

Characters Blue Bolt [Fred Bolt] (daring pilot for Glimpses the Picture Magazine); Snap Doodle (photographer for Glimpses); Flassini (former partner of Fred Bolt in a circus act)
Genre adventure

1 page Bluebolts and Nuts story

Genre humor
Script Milt Hammer
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Notes Back cover.