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Issue Details

Issue #223
Published November 1975
Cover Price 0 FREE
Pages 16
Editing ?
Notes Free to customers; price to non-customers shown as 0.25 USD.

Cover Details - "Look! I Can See Them In High Orbit!"

Characters Big Boy; Dolly; Nugget
Synopsis Big Boy doesn't know how to use his telescope.
Genre humor

1 page Dear Big Boy letters page "Dear Big Boy"

Script ? [as Big Boy]
Letters typeset
Notes Letters from: Marsha Horyn, Paul Hash, Bobby Fagan, Andrea Guilord, Claudette Brenz, Michele Gingrass, C. P., Kaye Hamblen, Lynn Belisle, Lisa Arjanen, Loree Kalliainen, Therese Sutphen, Ken Stelter, Kristen Matthews, Alysia Haney

5 page Big Boy story "The Space Hero"

Characters Big Boy; Dolly; Nugget; army captain; NASA crew
Synopsis Big Boy and Nugget find a saboteur in a rocket launch center.
Genre humor
Script Manfred Bernhard ?
Notes Likely writer credit from interview at http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/big-deal-on-big-boy-street.

1 page State Of The Union text article "South Dakota"

Characters Big Boy; Nugget
Synopsis Information on South Dakota with a map of the JB's Big Boy restaurants in the state.
Genre fact
Letters typeset

1 page Big Boy & Coke advertisement "Great In Any Weather"

Characters Big Boy
Synopsis Ad for Big Boy & Coke.
Letters typeset

2 page Big Boy Club Pages activity "Big Boy Club Pages"

Characters Dolly
Synopsis Riddles, stories, a paperdoll, and Flags of Our World Neighbors feature.
Letters typeset

3 page Big Boy story "T.V. Career"

Characters Big Boy; Dolly; Nugget; J. J. Sparkle
Synopsis Big Boy makes a frenzied effort to become a star, but his new job in television isn't what he thought.
Genre humor
Script Manfred Bernhard ?
Notes Likely writer credit from interview at http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/big-deal-on-big-boy-street.

1 page Big Boy Club text article "Join The National Big Boy Club"

Synopsis News from Club members.
Script ? [as Big Boy]
Letters typeset

Half page Big Boy story "Bedtime Story"

Characters Big Boy; boy
Synopsis Big Boy reads a story to an unimpressed boy.
Genre humor
Notes back cover

Half page Elias Brothers Restaurants advertisement "Michigan's Family Restaurants"

Synopsis List of Elias Brothers restaurants in Michigan.
Letters typeset
Notes List of restaurants varies depending on the regional location and franchise involved for Big Boy. Back cover.