Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1942-05-01
Editing: Vin Sullivan (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Big Shot Comics (Columbia, 1940 series) #24 Edit Cover
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Joe Palooka / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
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Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; sports
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Joe Palooka; Hideki Tojo
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.

U.S. Wings over Burma
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text story / 2 pages

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Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:war

Indexer Notes

Inside front and back covers.

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Captain Devildog / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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?
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Letters:
?
  • Genre:war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:From India to China stretches that mighty military ribbon...

[no title indexed]
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Joe Palooka / comic story / 6 pages

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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In his championship bout...
Reprints (0)
  • newspaper strips [dates unknown]

[no title indexed]
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Rocky Ryan / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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Pencils:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hunting in the African veldt...

Indexer Notes

Signed in the second-to-last panel of the story.

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Dixie Dugan / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:romance; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Dixie returns home...
Reprints (0)
  • newspaper strips [dates unknown]

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Raja the Arabian Knight / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Police inspector Philban, Marvelo's old friend...

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

Face / comic story / 8 pages

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Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Face--actually Tony Trent...

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Spy-Chief as the Cloak / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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Colors:
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Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Across the war-roiled ocean...

[no title indexed]
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Sparky Watts / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Some gamblers kidnapped Sparky...
Reprints (0)
  • newspaper strips [dates unknown]

[no title indexed]
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The Skyman / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
?
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero; adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Man of the air--and of the hour...
Characters:
Red Skull (villain; intro; not to be confused with Captain America's Red Skull)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Joe Palooka
  2. U.S. Wings over Burma
  3. ["From India to China stretches that mighty military ribbon..."]
    Captain Devildog
  4. ["In his championship bout..."]
    Joe Palooka
  5. ["Hunting in the African veldt..."]
    Rocky Ryan
  6. ["Dixie returns home..."]
    Dixie Dugan
  7. ["Police inspector Philban, Marvelo's old friend..."]
    Raja the Arabian Knight
  8. ["The Face--actually Tony Trent..."]
    Face
  9. ["Across the war-roiled ocean..."]
    Spy-Chief as the Cloak
  10. ["Some gamblers kidnapped Sparky..."]
    Sparky Watts
  11. ["Man of the air--and of the hour..."]
    The Skyman
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