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Issue: Big Shot #101 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagColumbia
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Indicia Publisher: Columbia Comic Corporation
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 10
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Thomas DeAngelo (Managing Editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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humorous
Dixie Dugan; Brass Knuckles; Mickey Finn
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nature
Bo
Bo (a dog)
Whoa!
Bo and his owner are collecting old newspapers. They happen upon a pile in a cellar, along with some drums of gunpowder. The couple who own the stash see him but are relived when they check that nothing is missing. By this time, however, the boy has mentioned the gunpowder to officers in a patrol car.
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inside front cover.

from Bo Sunday (The McNaught Syndicate)
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humorous
Mickey Finn
Mickey Finn; Uncle Phil Finn; Mrs. Finn; Shiboski; Houlihan
What's this I hear about Phil winning a goat, Mickey?
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from Mickey Finn Sunday (The McNaught Syndicate)
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drama, superhero
Sparky Watts
Sparky Watts; Dotty Dash; Doc; Papa Dash; Joyce Dash; Nell Dash; Bill Dash; Tillie Dash; Willie Dash; Brad Dash; Gladys Dash; Doctor Static
Do you take this woman to be your bride...
Sparky is getting ready for his marriage with Dotty. He meets her father, brothers and sisters, including Joyce, who wishes she had seen him first. As Dotty starts to walk towards the minister she trips and hits her head on the gramophone. The doctor declares that she will never walk again. Sparky insists the ceremony will continue, but is counseled to consider a life with a disabled wife.
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romantic
Dixie Dugan
Dixie Dugan; Mrs. Dugan; Imogene; Pa Dugan
Won't Imogene be pleased?
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from Dixie Dugan Sunday (The McNaught Syndicate)
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humorous
Brass Knuckles
Brass Knuckles; Lawyer O'Gyp; Frankie (a ghost); Dracky (another ghost)
This is it!
Brass arranges for a family of his friends to move into the house occupied by the ghosts of Frankie and Dracky, in life two eccentric millionaires. They keep moving the furniture out as soon as the family move it in. But Brass calls them to order and they give the family a deed of ownership, kicking O'Gyp out with nothing.
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Miscellaneous
4
Everybody Gets Into the Act

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
drama
Bumpy
Bumpy; John Beerymore; Butsy Ratoff; Inspector Jacques Bonsoir-Bonsoir; Millie; Frederic Bons
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superhero
Skyman
Skyman [Allen Turner]; Fawn Carroll; Benedict [aka Larry Gordon] (crook)
Home sweet home, after two years of pate defoi gras [sic]...
Allen as Skyman flies Fawn and a passenger named Gordon towards home. Fawn accidentally finds a pouch containing a great deal of money. When Gordon (real name Benedict) wakes up he holds a pistol on the pair, then bails out over Scotland. Skyman follows his footprints through the marshy terrain. Benedict is about to shoot him when his foot gets caught in the bog and he starts to sink. Skyman gives him a branch, but he can either save himself using two hands or hold on to the cash.
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next appearance in RETURN OF THE SKYMAN #1 (A.C.E. Comics, 1987).
[untitled]

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adventure
Tony Trent
Tony Trent; Babs Trent; Princess Elena
Back in occupied Europe...
Tony and Babs rescue Princess Elena, carrying a bag containing a fortune in jewels, from members of a foreign military group. They are pursued, but find safety in the American Army Officers' Club.
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Art was previously credited to Ogden Whitney, and while there is a similarity, a comparison with the Skyman story (signed twice by Whitney), which precedes it, strongly suggests otherwise.

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