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Issue: Big Shot Comics #2

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Publication Date: June 1940

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Issues: #2 of 33 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Columbia

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Columbia Comic Corporation

On Sale Date: 05/01/1940

Volume: 2

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 455644. Volume and issue number not in the indicia.

May 1, 1940 on sale date confirmed from an online copy at the Digital Comic Museum (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=17986, retrieved June 27, 2015), on page 2 marked with on sale date of May 1, 1940.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009 as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Content Items (13 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Joe Palooka; Marvelo

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Credited by a previous indexer to Ogden Whitney. Charlie Chan, Joe Palooka and Marvelo, are depicted on a flying carpet over an urban landscape The heads are lifted from stories by the individual creators (as are the vignettes of The Skyman, Dixie Dugan, Spymaster and The Face), but there is no evidence to confirm that Ogden Whitney drew the rest of the image.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Skyman

Character(s): The Skyman; Karl Korford (villain)

First Line: Across the airways of America...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, sports

Character(s): Joe Palooka; Red

First Line: By a strange twist of fate...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Joe Palooka daily (The McNaught Syndicate)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): The Face [Tony Trent]'; The Goldmaster (villain); Jeff Peters

First Line: Operating radio station WBSC...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Blake byline credited to Fox in the Who's Who.

Tiger Hunting/The Loser Wins

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Newspaper strip reprints

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Tom Kerry District Attorney

Character(s): Tom Kerry; Harry Tall Arrow; Gilbert Davis

First Line: The sport of czars...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

The Revolt That Failed

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Dick (hero - surname not given); General Francisco Miguel Castro

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Marvelo Monarch of Magicians

Character(s): Marvelo; Clifford Van Ester; Mrs. Van Ester; Zee the Hottentot; Doctor Hayles

First Line: On the Van Ester Estate...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dixie Dugan

Character(s): Dixie Dugan; Lawrence Lovey

First Line: My---Isn't he gorgeous?

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Dixie Dugan Sunday (The McNaught Syndicate)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: Two unrelated Sunday pages. The top tier is a separate Good Deed Dotty strip by the same creators.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Rocky Ryan

Character(s): Rocky Ryan; Roy; Colonel Buckridge; Khusha Khan

First Line: After helping to break up the outlaw band...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Whitney signs in the final panel of page 4..

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Jibby Jones

Character(s): Jibby Jones; Janie

First Line: Pssst---Hey Butch...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; J. C. Cornweller

First Line: In Hollywood, Charlie Chan is confronted...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Charlie Chan daily (The McNaught Syndicate)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, espionage

Feature(s): Spy-Master

Character(s): The Spy-Master [Jeff Cardiff]; James Gregory

First Line: The United States Navy has guarded well...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Although the title of the strip is The Spy-Master, the hyphen is dropped throughout the story.