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Blue Bolt
(Premium, 1940-1953, 1998)
™ and ©1948 The Premium Service Co.
Early issues of Blue Bolt featured a super-hero of the same name who had the power to control electricity. It was a standard Golden Age super-hero strip in most respects, except that it represented the first creative effort of the groundbreaking team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who would later go on to create Captain America, among many others. Kirby’s art in those early issues was raw but charged with intense energy, and set the stage for his fifty-year reign as the “King” of comic artists. Simon and Kirby soon left the strip, and Blue Bolt became a backup feature in his own title to a plainclothes adventurer named Dick Cole.
Dick Cole and the increasingly innocuous backup features eventually gave way to horror and mystery stories in the late 1940s, and the title was rechristened “Ghostly Weird Tales.” Some issues featured classic lurid covers by L.B. Cole.
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#90
May, 1948
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