Big Shot Comics #18

(October 1941)

Columbia, 1940 Series

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Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
Indicia Frequency: ?
On-sale Date: 1941-08-29
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Columbia Comic Corporation
Brand: A Columbia Comic Book

Editing: Vin Sullivan

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.

Joe Palooka / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre: humor; sports
Characters: Joe Palooka
Keywords: globes

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Joe Palooka / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Ham Fisher
Pencils: Ham Fisher
Inks: Ham Fisher
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: By accident, Knobby has regained his lost memory...
Genre: sports

The Skyman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks: Ogden Whitney (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Curious thing, a floating bottle!
Genre: superhero; adventure; aviation

Marvelo / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Fred Guardineer
Inks: Fred Guardineer
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Ugh! Plenty heavy!
Genre: superhero

Face / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

Genre: superhero

Rocky Ryan / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Ogden Whitney ?
Inks: Ogden Whitney ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: In the teeming jungles of northern India...
Genre: adventure

Dixie Dugan / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: J. P. McEvoy
Pencils: John Striebel
Inks: John Striebel
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Home from a vacation on the beach!

Genre

romance; humor

Reprints

newspaper strips [dates unknown]

Charlie Chan / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Alfred Andriola
Inks: Alfred Andriola
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

With only forty hours left...

Genre

detective-mystery

Reprints

newspaper strips [dates unknown]

Oliver Drab / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Ray McGill
Pencils: Ray McGill
Inks: Ray McGill
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: I'll show 'em they can't keep me...
Genre: humor; war

Spy-Chief / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Jeff Cardiff has resurrected an old revolutionary figure...
Genre: superhero

Sparky Watts / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Boody Rogers
Pencils: Boody Rogers
Inks: Boody Rogers
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Sparky is fighting Pug Hammerhead...

Genre

humor; superhero

Reprints

newspaper strips [dates unknown]

Captain Devildog / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: A swift cluster pursuit plane...
Genre: war

Face / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: On an autumn night Tony walks home from his broadcast...
Genre: superhero

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
Joe Palooka
1. ["By accident, Knobby has regained his lost memory..."]
Joe Palooka
2. ["Curious thing, a floating bottle!"]
The Skyman
3. ["Ugh! Plenty heavy!"]
Marvelo
4. The Face and the Blood Diamond
Face
5. ["In the teeming jungles of northern India..."]
Rocky Ryan
6. ["Home from a vacation on the beach!"]
Dixie Dugan
7. ["With only forty hours left..."]
Charlie Chan
8. ["I'll show 'em they can't keep me..."]
Oliver Drab
9. ["Jeff Cardiff has resurrected an old revolutionary figure..."]
Spy-Chief
10. ["Sparky is fighting Pug Hammerhead..."]
Sparky Watts
11. ["A swift cluster pursuit plane..."]
Captain Devildog
12. ["On an autumn night Tony walks home from his broadcast..."]
Face

This issue was modified by, among others

Del Gruber
Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
Mike Nielsen
Dave Redmond
Ramon Schenk
Daniel Thingvold

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