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art by L.B. Cole (1951)

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A Jack Kirby sketch of the Golden Age superhero Blue Bolt.

Blue Bolt's comic book adventures were the first collaboration between Joe Simon and Kirby, starting with Blue Bolt (vol. 1) #2 (July, 1940).

The duo stayed with the book until issue #10, then moved on to bigger and better things, including a little known character called Captain America.

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Alter Ego magazine #185

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Blue Bolt, #3 (1940) art by Joe Kirby and Joe Simon (Featuring Blue Bolt) 

A lesser known, but then popular Golden Age character created by Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America along with Jack Kirby.  Kirby would come aboard the book with issue #2 and share the art chores with Simon. 

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Blue Bolt begins life with covers Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

Jack Cole takes over with covers by Bill Everett.

L. B. Cole with action covers.

L. B. Cole goes planetary as Blue Bolt reappears on the cover.

L. B. Cole and Blue Bolt get weird, literally, before ending run in June 1953.

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Blue Bolt is another one of these public domain heroes that has a pretty generic design, so for my iteration I based the costume off the blue bolt shrimp and generally gave him some modernization traits.

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Blue Bolt

Creator(s): Joe Simon

Alias(es): Fred Parrish

1st Issue w/Uniform: Blue Bolt Comics, Vol 1 #4

Year/Month of Publication: 1940/09

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If I had a nickle..!

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Blue Bolt design by Danny Kim for West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 2024)

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Move Over, Deadpool - New Avengers Hero Blue Bolt Is Officially "Marvel's Biggest Jerk"

Deadpool officially has competition for the role of “biggest jerk in the Marvel Universe,” as a brand-new Avengers lineup makes it their mission to reform villains to superhero status – debuting a rude and selfish character the process Read More>>>

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Blue Bolt Adventures #105, April-May 1950.  Covert art by L.B. Cole.

L.B. Cole’s Star Publications took over publication of Blue Bolt Adventures from Novelty Press with issue #102.  Despite the gorgeous new cover, the issue above was filled with reprints, including Blue Bolt’s origin and first appearance from 1940, written and drawn by Joe Simon.

The scene of Blue Bolt rescuing his arch-enemy, the Green Sorceress (who wasn’t green in the first story), from a dragon is accurate.  The blurb stating that they have a “spine chilling adventure deep within the mysterious reaches of outer space,” however, was way off base.  Blue Bolt’s early adventures chronicled his battles against the Green Sorceress in her fantastical underground kingdom.

Before he gained his superpowers, Blue Bolt, aka Fred Parrish, was one majorly unlucky, and none-too-bright, guy.  His origin story opens with he and two of his friends being caught in a thunderstorm  They seek shelter under a tree, which every grade school student can tell you is NOT what you should do.  Lo and behold, the tree is struck by a tremendous lightning bolt that kills Fred’s friends and leaves him stunned. 

Fred then has the fantastic idea to hop in his nearby airplane to go fly for help.  He flies straight into the storm and, believe it or not, his plane is struck by lightning and crashes.  Fred, miraculously, is not dead, but only appears so. 

 Luckily for him, the crash has been observed by the kindly Dr. Bertoff who has been waiting ages for someone  to be struck by lightning.  Before the lightning becomes “dormant” in Fred’s body, Dr. Bertoff injects him with radium.  This has the effect of harnessing the power of the lightning and gives Fred superpowers as Blue Bolt.

I’m pretty if I was struck by lightning just once, not to mention twice, I’d be a crispy critter.  And I’m just as sure that if someone injects me with radium I’m going to get raditaion poisoning and die painfully.  But hey, comics!

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The West Coast Avengers get a little less heroic with the addition of Blue Bolt

Redemption for former villains seems like it’s going to be a theme for Marvel’s new West Coast Avengers. Meet Blue Bolt.

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Minor Super-Villain 502: the Green Sorceress