Big Shot Comics
#28
(October 1942)
Columbia,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-09-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Columbia Comic Corporation
- Editing
- Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent Sullivan) (editor)
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. 4.
[no title indexed]
Sparky Watts / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Heil Hitler!
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Sparky Watts
- Reprints
in 
[Sally's Screen Test]
Joe Palooka / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Ham Fisher (credited)
- Pencils
- Ham Fisher (credited)
- Inks
- Ham Fisher (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Joe and Knobby arrive in Hollywood after surviving a plane crash...
- Genre
- sports
- Characters
- Joe Palooka
- Reprints
- from Joe Palooka daily (McNaught Syndicate) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
[Toep Lao]
Captain Devildog / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From Australia to the coasts and steaming tropical jungles of Borneo...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Toep Lao (introduction); Captain Hank Steele
[Halfpint vs. Slap Happy]
Sparky Watts / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Boody Rogers (credited)
- Pencils
- Boody Rogers (credited)
- Inks
- Boody Rogers (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, Sparky, now maybe we'll have some peace and qu----
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Sparky Watts; Slap Happy; Halfpint
- Reprints
- from Sparky Watts daily (Frank Jay Markey Syndicate) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
[Incident in Iraq]
Rocky Ryan / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With two great nations of the west locked in a death struggle...
- Genre
- war; adventure
- Characters
- Captain Dick Forbes (introduction); Colonel Bartlett; (introduction); his daughter (introduction); Rocky Ryan
[The Search for the Hawk: Part 2]
Charlie Chan / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Alfred Andriola (credited)
- Pencils
- Alfred Andriola (credited)
- Inks
- Alfred Andriola (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hurrying to the railroad station to say good-bye to his father...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Charlie Chan
- Reprints
- from Charlie Chan daily (McNaught Syndicate) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
[The Boy Scouts and the Nazi Spies]
The Cloak / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Mart Bailey (signed)
- Inks
- Mart Bailey (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good scouts! He would have shot me to a sieve!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Cloak [Jeff Cardiff]
Indexer Notes
last appearance
[The Plot of Basil Lisk]
The Skyman / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox (credited as Paul Dean)
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- America's cloud-striding hero...
- Genre
- superhero; adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Basil Lisk (villain, introduction); Skyman
[Dixie Researches Love: Part 1]
Dixie Dugan / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- J. P. McEvoy (credited)
- Pencils
- John Striebel (credited as John H. Striebel)
- Inks
- John Striebel (credited as John H. Striebel)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dixie's new assignment is to research love!
- Genre
- drama; humor
- Characters
- Dixie Dugan
- Reprints
- from Dixie Dugan daily (McNaught Syndicate) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
[Chinese Obligation]
The Face / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Mart Bailey (credited)
- Inks
- Mart Bailey (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In far off South China, Tony Trent...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Face [Tony Trent]
[no title indexed]
Mortimer the Monk / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- - Hey Mortimer!!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Mortimer the Monk
Indexer Notes
On inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Heil Hitler!"]
Sparky Watts -
1.
[Sally's Screen Test]
Joe Palooka -
2.
[Toep Lao]
Captain Devildog -
3.
[Halfpint vs. Slap Happy]
Sparky Watts -
4.
[Incident in Iraq]
Rocky Ryan -
5.
[The Search for the Hawk: Part 2]
Charlie Chan -
6.
[The Boy Scouts and the Nazi Spies]
The Cloak -
7.
Little Chen Strikes Back
-
8.
[The Plot of Basil Lisk]
The Skyman -
9.
[Dixie Researches Love: Part 1]
Dixie Dugan -
10.
[Chinese Obligation]
The Face -
11.
["- Hey Mortimer!!"]
Mortimer the Monk
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