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Issue: Big Shot Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1940
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagColumbia
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Columbia Comic Corporation
On Sale Date: 05/31/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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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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Cover, Front
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Skyman; Charlie Chan; Joe Palooka
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Miscellaneous
1
Bombings in Tumal City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
The Skyman [Allan Turner]; Fawn Carroll; Mayor Foxx; Doctor Jenkins; Doctor Burton
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Miscellaneous
11
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, sports
Joe Palooka; Red; Knobby Walsh; Smokey
Knowing Joe's true identity...
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from Joe Palooka daily (The McNaught Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Face [Tony Trent]; Glory Young; Hook Horner;
Known to the world only as a grim, elusive phantom...
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Miscellaneous
6
Bailey signs (as MB) on the final page. Blake byline credited to Fox in the Who's Who.
George Lost All But Hope/Gardener's Vision

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime
Tom Kerry District Attorney
Tom Kerry; "Musical Molly" Marvin (corpse); Rory Dolan (villain)
People on a little street in New York.
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Miscellaneous
6
The Skyman Encounters Kidnapers

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
The Skyman
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Marvelo Monarch of Magicians
Marvelo; Zee (manservant); Ted Hardy; Blackie;
Arriving in an Arizona town...
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Mike the Mascot
Mike the Mascot
Let's hope that Mike will behave himself...
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Dixie Dugan
Dixie Dugan; Mickey; Imogene
I feel very independent, Mickey...
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From Dixie Dugan Sunday (The McNaught Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
3
The top tier of each page features Good Deed Dotty.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Rocky Ryan
Rocky Ryan; Roy; Chief Balah; Princess Fleur
From the sun-scorched plains of middle India...
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Miscellaneous
6
Whitney signs on the sixth panel of page 5.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Jibby Jones
Jibby Jones; Waldo; Brenda
No more books...
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Mortimer the Monk
Mortimer the Monk
Bah!---I'm tired of being a mere house pet...
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
mystery
Charlie Chan
Charlie Chan' J. C. Kornweller; Lugo Mance; Lucky Norton; Detective Kirk Casey
While Charlie Chan tracks the killer of Norda Noll...
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from Charlie Chan daily (The McNaught Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
4.5
Newspaper strip reprints
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Off-Side!
Ball one...
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Four unrelated gag panels.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
espionage
Spy-Chief
Spy-Chief [Jeff Cardiff]; The Chief; Captain Jim Murphy; Tommy Brown
The United States of America is feeling the influences of a foreign war!
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Miscellaneous
5

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