([August 1963] 1962)

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Volume:
?
Price:
0.00 Free
Pages:
16
Indicia frequency:
?
Indicia Publisher:
?
Brand:
?
Editing:
Manfred Bernhard
Format:
Color; Standard Silver or Modern Age; Saddle-Stitched or Glued; Paper Cover; Newsprint Interior

Issue Notes

Produced by the Webs Advertising Corp., Hanover, New Hampshire for Big Boy Restaurant operators by permission of Big Boy Franchises, Inc. of Glendale, California. Only date listed in the 1962 copyright date, Copyright 1962 Robert C. Wian Enterprises, Inc. Actual date determined based on title's monthly publication history. The 10 cent cover price is covered up with a note "Free to our Guests."


Big Boy Fights The Martian Giant!!! (Table of Contents)

Big Boy / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Sol Brodsky?; Manfred Bernhard?
Pencils:
Sol Brodsky?
Inks:
Sol Brodsky?
Colors:
Sol Brodsky?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
humor; science fiction
Characters:
Big Boy; Moogoo the Martian

Letters (Table of Contents)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
? (vignette)
Inks:
? (vignette)
Colors:
? (vignette)
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Characters:
Unidentified mailman

Indexer Notes

Letters written to Big Boy from children. Inside front cover.


Big Boy and the Martians, The (Table of Contents)

Big Boy / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Sol Brodsky [signed as Brod]?; Manfred Bernhard?
Pencils:
Sol Brodsky [signed as Brod]
Inks:
Sol Brodsky [signed as Brod]
Colors:
Sol Brodsky? [signed as Brod]
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
science fiction; humor
Characters:
Big Boy; Dolly; Nugget; Martians (Unidentified except: Moogoo)
Synopsis:
Big Boy outwits a Martian invasion by defeating Moogoo.

No Matter Where You Travel (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

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

Indexer Notes

Ad for Coca Cola and Big Boy sandwich.


No. 76 National Big Boy Club Pages (Table of Contents)

activity / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

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

Indexer Notes

Activities include: 'Lounging Pajamas' paper doll outfit for Dolly cut-out. Spotlighting penguins in 'Another "catch" for your Zoo' feature. 'Thinkies' and 'Funnies" joke section. Flags for Poland, Phillipines, and Denmark. Most meant to be cut out for a Big Boy scrapbook.


Big Boy Scrap Book (Table of Contents)

Big Boy / activity / 1 page (report information)

Credits

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

Content Information

Characters:
Big Boy

Indexer Notes

Page meant to be cut-out and used as the cover for a Big Boy Scrap Book.


Big Boy's Crossword "Tree Puzzle" (Table of Contents)

activity / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Sol Brodsky?
Inks:
Sol Brodsky?
Colors:
Sol Brodsky?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Characters:
Big Boy; Dolly

Indexer Notes

Crossword puzzle with a tree theme.


Bath Time for Nugget (Table of Contents)

Nugget / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Manfred Bernhard?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Characters:
Nugget; Big Boy
Synopsis:
Nugget tries to avoid his bath and gets wet anyway running out into the rain.

Ja-Shaydvn! (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (Drown Campfires vignette)
Inks:
? (Drown Campfires vignette)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?; typeset

Content Information

Characters:
Smokey the Bear; undentified boy drowning out a campfire
Synopsis:
Big Boy responds to his letter writers.

Indexer Notes

Coupon at bottom of page urging to be attached to picnic baskets to remind children to prevent forest fires by drowning campfires.


[Hi, Big Boy...What's New?] (Table of Contents)

Big Boy / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Sol Brodsky?; Manfred Bernhard?
Pencils:
Sol Brodsky?
Inks:
Sol Brodsky?
Colors:
Sol Brodsky?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
humor; science fiction
Characters:
Big Boy; unidentified boy; Martians (including Moogoo)
Synopsis:
Unidentified boy asks Big Boy what was new, even though he stands on top of a defeated Moogoo.

Indexer Notes

Top half of back cover.


[Regional Co-Branding] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Bottom half of back cover. Area on all Big Boy comic books reserved for advertising for the regional co-brand of the Big Boy chain. See series notes for list of regions. This title indexed from Elias Brother's regional co-branded issue.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Letters
  2. 2. Big Boy and the Martians, The
    Big Boy
  3. 3. No Matter Where You Travel
  4. 4. No. 76 National Big Boy Club Pages
  5. 5. Big Boy Scrap Book
    Big Boy
  6. 6. Big Boy's Crossword "Tree Puzzle"
  7. 7. Bath Time for Nugget
    Nugget
  8. 8. Ja-Shaydvn!
  9. 9. [Hi, Big Boy...What's New?]
    Big Boy
  10. 10. [Regional Co-Branding]
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