Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1940-08-29
Editing: Vin Sullivan (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Big Shot Comics (Columbia, 1940 series) #6 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Joe Palooka / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Now, fellers, I'll show youse a left jab on th' bag!
  • Keywords:boxing
Characters:
Joe Palooka; Skyman; Charlie Chan; Rocky Ryan (inset)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Number and date on cover only.

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.

[Joe Undercover]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Joe Palooka / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Ham Fisher (credited)
Pencils:
Ham Fisher (credited)
Inks:
Ham Fisher (credited)
Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:adventure; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hungry and looking for work...
Characters:
Joe Palooka; Buddy Peters; Knobby Walsh; "Anthracite" Hardy
Reprints (0)
  • from Joe Palooka daily (The McNaught Syndicate)

Indexer Notes

strip reprints; Inside Front-Cover

[The Cancer Cure]
(Table of Contents: 2)

The Skyman / comic story / 11 pages

Script:
Gardner Fox (credited as Paul Dean)
Pencils:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero; adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In the ultra-modern medical hospital...
Characters:
The Skyman [Allan Turner]; Fawn Carroll

[The Blue Light Murders]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Tom Kerry / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:As an elderly patrolman is walking his beat...
Characters:
Tom Kerry; Colleen Leary; Doc Swanson

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Mike the Mascot / comic story / 2 pages

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Why certainly we'll take care of your dog...

[The Liquid Air Bomb]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Spy-Chief / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Mart Bailey (signed)
Inks:
Mart Bailey (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:spy
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In these troubled times....
Characters:
Spy-Chief [Jeff Cardiff]; Mr. Harkins

Jibby Jones Wins a Contest
(Table of Contents: 6)

Jibby Jones / text story / 1.75 pages

Script:
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Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:humor; children
Characters:
Jibby Jones; Frank Markey Hall, Jr.; Jerry Mack

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 7)

The Bungle Family / comic story / 1 page

Script:
H. J. Tuthill (credited)
Pencils:
H. J. Tuthill (credited)
Inks:
H. J. Tuthill (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; domestic
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Phone for me?
Reprints (0)
  • from The Bungle Family Sunday (The McNaught Syndicate)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is the "Short Stories" strip by the same creator.

[The Kidnapping of David Frome, Part 1]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Charlie Chan / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Inspector Chan Stop! Wait!
Characters:
Charlie Chan; Spencer Frome; Mr. Barrow; General Jura; Carla Jura; Colonel Bamba
Reprints (0)
  • from Charlie Chan daily (The McNaught Syndicate)

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

[The Football Game]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Jibby Jones / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Creig Flessel (signed)
Pencils:
Creig Flessel (signed)
Inks:
Creig Flessel (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We ought to lick Slug Malone's team today...
Characters:
Jibby Jones; Jane; "King Kong" Peterson; Slug Malone

[The Moon Mistress]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Rocky Ryan / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Setting off alone from Singali...
Characters:
Rocky Ryan; Queen Moora (villain, introduction, death); La Chega

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 11)

Dixie Dugan / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
J. P. McEvoy (credited)
Pencils:
John Striebel (credited as J. H. Striebel) (signed as J. H. Striebel)
Inks:
John Striebel (credited as J. H. Striebel) (signed as J. H. Striebel)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Golly it's hot!
Characters:
Dixie Dugan; her father; her mother
Reprints (0)
  • from Dixie Dugan Sunday (The McNaught Syndicate)

Indexer Notes

The top tier on each page features "Good Deed Dotty" by the same creators.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Mortimer the Monk / comic story / 1 page

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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Zz-z!

[The Counterfeit Quarters]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Marvelo / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Inks:
Fred Guardineer (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:See this quarter, Marvelo?
Characters:
Marvelo; Butch Benders; Slugger Saunders (villain)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 14)

Amazing Faces / comic story / 1 page

Script:
George Papp (signed as Geo Papp)
Pencils:
George Papp (signed as Geo Papp)
Inks:
George Papp (signed as Geo Papp)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Man who sit on tack...

[The Van Doorn Murder]
(Table of Contents: 15)

The Face / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Michael Blake (credited)
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Our feature story tonight...
Characters:
The Face [Tony Trent]; Freddie van Doorn; Marcia; Babs Walsh
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Now, fellers, I'll show youse a left jab on th' bag!"]
    Joe Palooka
  2. [Joe Undercover]
    Joe Palooka
  3. [The Cancer Cure]
    The Skyman
  4. [The Blue Light Murders]
    Tom Kerry
  5. ["Why certainly we'll take care of your dog..."]
    Mike the Mascot
  6. [The Liquid Air Bomb]
    Spy-Chief
  7. Jibby Jones Wins a Contest
    Jibby Jones
  8. ["Phone for me?"]
    The Bungle Family
  9. [The Kidnapping of David Frome, Part 1]
    Charlie Chan
  10. [The Football Game]
    Jibby Jones
  11. [The Moon Mistress]
    Rocky Ryan
  12. ["Golly it's hot!"]
    Dixie Dugan
  13. ["Zz-z!"]
    Mortimer the Monk
  14. [The Counterfeit Quarters]
    Marvelo
  15. ["Man who sit on tack..."]
    Amazing Faces
  16. [The Van Doorn Murder]
    The Face
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