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Issue: Blue Bolt #10 [10] Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Novelty Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/08/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: BLUE BOLT, Vol. 1, No. 10, March 1941, 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/.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
adventure
Dick Cole
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Rocky Roberts Takes Over

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Blue Bolt [Fred Parrish]; The Green Sorceress (villain); Rocky Roberts (villain, death); General Feng (villain, introduction)
'Rocky' Roberts -- gang-leader...stows away on a rocket ride...
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Jack Kirby #[2] published January 1997
as King Rocky [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagBlue Bolt TPB #[nn] published June 1998
as Rocky Roberts Takes Over [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSupermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009
as Rocky Roberts Takes Over [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Simon and Kirby Library #[nn] published March 2013
as Rocky Roberts Takes Over [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
The Lynch Mob's "Justice"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Jeb Harker (villain, introduction); Grant (introduction)
A blustering, wintry night --- Dick, and his roommate at Farr Military academy, Ed March, are in their dormitory room...
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Miscellaneous
9
The Heat Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Fargall (villain, introduction); his gang (villains, introduction); Dr. Peterson (introduction)
It's a hold-up!
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Miscellaneous
9
War Against King Tut

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
King Tut-Ankh-Amen (villain)
Sergeant Spook...having witnessed the slavery of the ghosts of northern Africa...
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Miscellaneous
5
Morse Medicine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (illustration)
? (illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Blue Bolt's Short Short Story
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Miscellaneous
2
The Mad Sheepherders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
western
The White Rider and Super Horse
Reared in a strange 'lost canyon' where the strong pull of gravity caused a super development of their muscular powers...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Ray-Radio

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1.5
Make These Papercup Telephones

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
The Stevens Lumber Race

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Runaway Ronson
Runaway Ronson; Shanty Overholt (introduction); Cartier (villain); Hank (villain); Cartier and Hank's gang (villains)
The cold hands of death reach out for the fifth time...
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Miscellaneous
6
All Paul Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul's son.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Old Cap Hawkin's Tales
We Must All Hang Together, or Assuredly We Shall All Hang Separately...
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Pony Tracks
The Purple Cow Rodeo is over...
Jasper and Crisco enlist in the Horse Marines
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Sinister Cannery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
The Phantom Sub
A gang of fifth columnists (villains, introduction)
With the totalitarian states of the world plotting...
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Miscellaneous
8

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