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    Big Shot Comics (1940) #40 GD+ 2.5
    Published Nov 1943 by Columbia Comics Group.

    Big Shot Comics (1940) 40 GD+ 2.5

    Ended Apr 20 2013
    Winning Bid $16

    Stories and art by Boody Rogers, Ham Fisher, Gardner Fox, Ogden Whitney, Kermit Jadiker and Charles Zerner (credited as Paine), Elmer Wexler, Frank Tinsley, Alfred Andriola, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, Frank Beck and Mart Bailey. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. Sparky Watts joins the Army Air Corps, in a patriotic WWII story. Koenig comes out of surgery, but Vic Jordan still suspects that he's a Nazi spy. Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself assigns Captain Yank to safeguard a synthetic rubber formula (a big deal in the era before plastics). Vic Jordan; Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; The Face; All in a Lifetime; Skyman. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10. Grade: GD+ 2.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)