Big Shot Comics (1940) 30
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Published Dec 1942 by Columbia Comics Group.$150.00
View scansCover by Ogden Whitney. Stories and art by Boody Rogers, Gardner Fox, Ham Fisher, Frank Tinsley, Frank Beck, H. J. Tuthill, Ray McGill, Alfred Andriola, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, and Ogden Whitney. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. Sparky Watts, the world's strongest man, goes out for football. The Face fights to free the captive Flying Tigers fighter squad from a Japanese ship. The mysterious voice of The Prophet hijacks radio waves to predict disasters, undermine the US war effort, and frame Skyman for his crimes. Cover by Ogden Whitney features Joe Palooka, Santa Claus, and a flying jeep. Mortimer the Monk; Skyman; Sparky Watts; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Trixie; Bo; Rocky Ryan; Dixie Dugan; The Bungle Family; The Face. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.


