<i>Blue Bolt</i>, Vol. 6 No. 8
date: label: date made
content: 1946
name: label: maker
content: Novelty Press
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Blue Bolt</i> Volume 6 Number 8 was published by Novelty Press in March 1946 and sold for ten cents. The cover art, by Tom Gill, depicts a white woman in pants fighting a Polynesian woman in a flowered dress while Captain Blue Bolt watches in the background.
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content: The Blue Bolt story of this issue saw intrepid reporter Marg Hesslin discovering a Japanese spy attempting to infiltrate Blue Bolt’s regiment in the Polynesian Islands with a lethal bouquet. Other stories included: Dick Cole and his Farr Military Academy friends defeating gangsters Joe and Denny, Krisko and Jasper moving a farm, Fearless Fellers going skiing, Sergeant Spook solving the mystery of the Headless Horseman, and Edison bell unraveling the “Old Mill Mystery.”
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content: <i>Blue Bolt</i> was first published in 1940, with the titular superhero gaining his powers after being struck by lightning and resuscitated with radium by scientist Dr. Bertoff. Issues also featured stories from a revolving cast including Dick Cole, the Sub-Zero man, Sergeant Spook, young inventor Edison Bell, Fearless Fellers, and Krisko and Jasper. Dick Cole soon became the star of the <i>Blue Bolt</i> books, and in volume 3 number 4 Blue Bolt stopped being a superhero and joined the Navy to fight against the Axis in World War II.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0086.026
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.026
label: accession number
content: 2013.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 10 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 26.035 cm