Volume: 8
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
Editing: Tom DeAngelo (managing editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Big Shot (Columbia, 1943 series) #87 Edit Cover
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Sparky Watts / cover / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Boody Rogers (signed)
Inks:
Boody Rogers (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction; humor; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Mister, for you it'll be ten dollars!
Characters:
Sparky Watts; Slap Happy

Issue Data

[no title indexed]
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Sparky Watts / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Boody Rogers (signed)
Inks:
Boody Rogers (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; science fiction; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Today is the gala day --
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
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Dixie Dugan / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:romance; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Mr. Bradley has asked Mrs. Dugan to go to New York...
Reprints (0)
  • newspaper strips [dates unknown]

[no title indexed]
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Mickey Finn / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Lank Leonard (signed)
Pencils:
Lank Leonard (signed)
Inks:
Lank Leonard (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You have been listening to the 'Missing Relatives' program...
Reprints (0)
  • newspaper strips [dates unknown]

[no title indexed]
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Cranberry Boggs / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Well, Cran, this elegant perfume...

[no title indexed]
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Hollywood Johnnie / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Okay, Frank, we're ready to shoot!

[Bullfighter for a Day]
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Brass Knuckles / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Marion Bailey (signed Marty Marion)
Pencils:
Mart Bailey (signed Marty Marion)
Inks:
Mart Bailey (signed Marty Marion)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor

Indexer Notes

credits by Craig Delich 9/05

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The Skyman / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:aviation; superhero; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Fawn and Gloria are prisoners aboard a strange craft...
Characters:
Skyman [Allen Turner]

Indexer Notes

Art credits revised from ? to Ogden Whitney by Robert Kennedy. Upon close inspection of art scans of these stories by him at the Digital Comics Museum, he firmly believes the story to have been drawn by Whitney.

It's the Root of All Evil
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Bumpy / text story / 2 pages

Script:
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:humor

[no title indexed]
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Bo / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:animal; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Junior has run away from home
Reprints (0)
  • newspaper strips [dates unknown]

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Tony Trent / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:On their honeymoon in South America...
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Mister, for you it'll be ten dollars!"]
    Sparky Watts
  2. ["Today is the gala day --"]
    Sparky Watts
  3. ["Mr. Bradley has asked Mrs. Dugan to go to New York..."]
    Dixie Dugan
  4. ["You have been listening to the 'Missing Relatives' program..."]
    Mickey Finn
  5. ["Well, Cran, this elegant perfume..."]
    Cranberry Boggs
  6. ["Okay, Frank, we're ready to shoot!"]
    Hollywood Johnnie
  7. [Bullfighter for a Day]
    Brass Knuckles
  8. ["Fawn and Gloria are prisoners aboard a strange craft..."]
    The Skyman
  9. It's the Root of All Evil
    Bumpy
  10. ["Junior has run away from home"]
    Bo
  11. ["On their honeymoon in South America..."]
    Tony Trent
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Issue was modified by, among others
  • Henry Andrews
  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Bob Hughes
  • Erling Husa
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jonathan Sari
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
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