Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1942-11-27
Editing: Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent Sullivan) (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Big Shot Comics (Columbia, 1940 series) #31 Edit Cover
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Sparky Watts / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:humor; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hold it steady, Yoo-Hoo!
Characters:
Sparky Watts; Yoo-Hoo; Slap Happy
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, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.

"Big Shot" on the cover, "Big Shot Comics" in the indicia.

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statement of ownership / 0.33 page

Script:
Frank J. Markey (credited) (business manager)
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

On the inside-front cover.

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Sparky Watts / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:humor; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Today's our big game, Sparky...
Characters:
Sparky Watts

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The Skyman / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When saboteurs, spies, and an unpredictable madman run amok...

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Bo / comic story / 2 pages

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?
Letters:
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  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Wake up, Junior, it's Christmas morning...
Characters:
Bo

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Joe Palooka / comic story / 7 pages

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Letters:
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  • Genre:sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:While out of town, Knobby Walsh is unaware...
Reprints (0)
  • from Joe Palooka newspaper strips

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Charlie Chan / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Despite Steve Carson's intercession for his son...
Reprints (0)
  • from Charlie Chan newspaper strips

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Captain Yank / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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Letters:
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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Back at Palu Island...
  • Keywords:Palu Island
Reprints (0)
  • from Captain Yank newspaper strips

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Dixie Dugan / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ma Dugan sold Pa's old chair to a junk dealer.
Reprints (0)
  • from Dixie Dugan newspaper strips

Jarring the Japs
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

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Rocky Ryan / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:By daring raids into Nazi-held Holland...
Characters:
Rocky Ryan

Indexer Notes

Last appearance. Whitney's signature on page 6 pointed out by Mark Minett via the GCD Error Tracker.

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The Face / comic story / 8 pages

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Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Washed ashore after a terrific naval battle...
Characters:
The Face
Editing
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Hold it steady, Yoo-Hoo!"]
    Sparky Watts
  2. [no title indexed]
  3. ["Today's our big game, Sparky..."]
    Sparky Watts
  4. ["When saboteurs, spies, and an unpredictable madman run amok..."]
    The Skyman
  5. ["Wake up, Junior, it's Christmas morning..."]
    Bo
  6. ["While out of town, Knobby Walsh is unaware..."]
    Joe Palooka
  7. ["Despite Steve Carson's intercession for his son..."]
    Charlie Chan
  8. ["Back at Palu Island..."]
    Captain Yank
  9. ["Ma Dugan sold Pa's old chair to a junk dealer."]
    Dixie Dugan
  10. Jarring the Japs
  11. ["By daring raids into Nazi-held Holland..."]
    Rocky Ryan
  12. ["Washed ashore after a terrific naval battle..."]
    The Face
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