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Issue: Blue Bolt #1 [13] Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1941
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Issues: #1 [13] of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagNovelty / Premium / Curtis
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Novelty Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/09/1941
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): David Adams
Disclose Notes: 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. 2.
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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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Dick Cole Battles His Double

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dick Cole
Character(s): Dick Cole; Simba Karno
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In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #2 published September 2013
as Blue Bolt #v2#1 [13] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): The Editors
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Ye Editors' Page
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: the inside-front cover
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Dick Cole Battles His Double

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Davis
Penciller(s): Bob Davis
Inker(s): Bob Davis
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dick Cole
Character(s): Dick Cole (origin retold); Simba Karno (villain, introduction); Dr. Karno (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Title taken from the cover.

The story is complete, but the background story continues to the next issue with a different title.
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Murder in the Mountains

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill ?
Penciller(s): John Daly
Inker(s): John Daly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Sub-Zero
Character(s): Sub-Zero Man; Harkness (introduction); Ruth (hiker, introduction); Harkness (introduction); The Twister [Bob Sanders] (cameo); Ragin (villain, nephew of Harkness, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Sub-Zero is taking a break at Mt. Reed from crime fighting and spots a hiker falling from a mountain. Upon investigation, he notes that the hiker's rope had been doctored to break and suspects a man named Ragin. After a tussel, Sub-Zero is knocked out, then sets out after Ragin. While doing so, Sub-Zero fractures his leg but manages to inscribe a message on stone that he hopes will be picked up, read, and result in a posse finding him and Ragin. Ragin, loaded with dynamite, falls to his death, knocking Sub-Zero and the posse off a mountain, but are saved by a mysterious wind (The Twister).
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Pages: 10
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The Case of the Yellow Creek Dam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): White Rider and Super Horse
Character(s): The White Rider; Super-Horse; Chief Little Buck (introduction); V: Morgan (villain, introduction); Morgan's gang (villains, introduction for all)
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Pages: 6
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Ghost Ship

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Sergeant Spook
Character(s): Sgt. Spook
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Pages: 2
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The Revenge of Rock Rook

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Malcolm Kildale
Penciller(s): Malcolm Kildale
Inker(s): Malcolm Kildale
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Sergeant Spook
Character(s): Sergeant Spook; Rock Rook (villain, a ghost, introduction, death)
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Pages: 7
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Vincennes and Victory

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Kiefer
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Old Cap Hawkins Tales
Character(s): Old Cap Hawkins
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren]
Penciller(s): Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren]
Inker(s): Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Krisko and Jasper
Character(s): V: Mr. Gravedigger
First Line: Ahh-h-ha!! Just the chance I've been waiting for!
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Pages: 4
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Rescue by Aero Kite

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Ramsey
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Edison Bell
Character(s): Edison Bell
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Pages: 4
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U-Boat Menace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill O'Connor
Penciller(s): Ben Flinton
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Phantom Sub
Character(s): The Phantom Sub; The Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the last issue's blurb.
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The Aerial Saboteur

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill ?
Penciller(s): Alan Mandel ?
Inker(s): Alan Mandel ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blue Bolt
Character(s): Blue Bolt [Fred Parrish]; Kip Parrish (Fred's brother); unnamed Major (base commander, introduction); The Twister [Bob Sanders] (cameo); Miller (villain, saboteur, introduction, death)
Synopsis: At a Canadian R.A.F. air base, Blue Bolt watches his kid brother's first solo flight and sees the plane cracking up. When Kip's chute doesn't open, Blue Bolt springs to the rescue. Kip later discovers a man named Miller sabotaging the planes, and is knocked out. Later, the base commander is kidnapped by Miller when the Major discovers the sabotage and it is Blue Bolt to the rescue again, over-taking the airplane and causing Miller to fall to his death. But when the plane itself streaks to the earth out of control, a mysterious wind (The Twister) comes along and brings the plane down safely.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #36 published January 2002
as The Aerial Saboteur [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: As of this story, Kip still does not know that Blue Bolt is his brother.
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Introducing the Twister

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Gill
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Twister
Character(s): The Twister [Bob Sanders](origin in flashback, introduction); Odysseus (introduction); Aeolus (god of the winds, introduction); Pete Sanders (introduction, cameo in flashback, death); Mrs. Pete Sanders (introduction, cameo in flashback, death); unnamed Policeman (introduction); Tony the Tornado (villain, introduction); Spike (villain, introduction); unnamed crooks (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: According to Greek mythology, Odysseus visited Aeolia, seeking out Aeolus to provide favorable winds for his ship. His wish was granted, but Aeolus also gave Odysseus a sealed bag of unfavorable winds and was told not to open it....but his crew did, and the winds blew his ship back to Aeolia. Aeolus was furious and demanded that Odysseus tracked down and capture the bad winds or reap the consequences...but he never did. The bad winds one day years later hit a red school house in Windy Gap and a student, Bob Sanders, was taken up in it and given strange powers, which he used as The Twister.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #36 published January 2002
as Introducing the Twister [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: All Paul Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul's son.

The Twister/Bob Sanders is considered to be a descendant of Odysseus.

At the end of the story, Twister announces to the crooks that he has a date with the notorious Tony the Tornado, a blurb to indicate the topic of the story next issue.
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It's a Wow!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Wood (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Target
Synopsis: house ad for Target Comics
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: the inside-back cover

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