Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-12-30
Editing: Vin Sullivan
Cover Thumbnail for Big Shot Comics (Columbia, 1940 series) #32 Edit Cover
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Joe Palooka / cover / 1 page

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typeset
  • Genre:humor; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Look Yoo-Hoo - "right in der Fuehrer's face!"
Characters:
Joe Palooka; Yoo-Hoo; Adolf Hitler
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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Vic Jordan / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Paine (joint name)
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Paris...summer...1940
Characters:
Vic Jordan (first appearance)
Reprints (0)
  • from Vic Jordan newspaper strips

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Joe Palooka / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In Hollywood, Joe and Knobby are no longer friends...
Reprints (0)
  • from Joe Palooka newspaper strips

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Dinky Dinkerton / comic story / 2 pages

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  • Genre:humor; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What goes on here?
Characters:
Dinky Dinkerton (first appearance)

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The Skyman / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Gardner Fox (credited as Paul Dean)
Pencils:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks:
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero; adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:An evil genius, spawned in Berlin looses a horrid plague...
Characters:
Sky Man; Fawn Carroll; Gus; Mr. Dager
Synopsis:
When the city is attacked by giant dragon-flies Sky-Man is called in to help. He finds out that giant insects are being created to interrupt War production and it is up to him to stop them.
Reprints (1)

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Dixie Dugan / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Money--money--money...
Reprints (0)
  • from Dixie Dugan newspaper strips

Dutch Treat
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

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Captain Yank / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
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Letters:
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  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:With the aid of a native chief...

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Charlie Chan / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:With Sheik and Pistol using Shiela and Laddie as human shields...
Reprints (0)
  • from Charlie Chan newspaper strips

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Sparky Watts / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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?
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?
  • Genre:humor; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Look, Sparky--I've overcharged Slap Happy's feet again...
Characters:
Sparky Watts

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The Face / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Mart Bailey (Previous indexer believed Script may have been Gardner Fox using the Mart Bailey name.)
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?
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?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Tony Trent, war correspondent, whom a grotesque mask transforms...
Characters:
The Face

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Bo / comic story / 5 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I wonder if the ground hog will see his shadow today...
Characters:
Bo
Reprints (0)
  • from Bo newspaper strips
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Look Yoo-Hoo - "right in der Fuehrer's face!""]
    Joe Palooka
  2. ["Paris...summer...1940"]
    Vic Jordan
  3. ["In Hollywood, Joe and Knobby are no longer friends..."]
    Joe Palooka
  4. ["What goes on here?"]
    Dinky Dinkerton
  5. ["An evil genius, spawned in Berlin looses a horrid plague..."]
    The Skyman
  6. ["Money--money--money..."]
    Dixie Dugan
  7. Dutch Treat
  8. ["With the aid of a native chief..."]
    Captain Yank
  9. ["With Sheik and Pistol using Shiela and Laddie as human shields..."]
    Charlie Chan
  10. ["Look, Sparky--I've overcharged Slap Happy's feet again..."]
    Sparky Watts
  11. ["Tony Trent, war correspondent, whom a grotesque mask transforms..."]
    The Face
  12. ["I wonder if the ground hog will see his shadow today..."]
    Bo
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