Big Shot Comics (1940) comic books 1946

Stories and art by Ham Fisher, 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. Tony and Willy, the first two men to wear the mask of The Face, travel into the mountains of China and learn the fate of General Lee-Ahng, the third and final Face. Doc Static's "living radio" device continues to cause confusion for the unsuspecting. Skyman gets pulled into backstage shenanigans at a stage play and winds up battling two actual clowns who want to sabotage the production, in an offbeat tale. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; The Face; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Double Date With Deep-Sea. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ham Fisher, 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. No longer hiding behind the mask of The Face, Tony Trent continues to battle crime under his own name. Slap Happy is cast as the lead in a Hollywood movie, but the GMG studio doesn't know about the living-radio invention that makes him such a great singer. As America transitions from World War II to the postwar period, Captain Yank makes his final appearance. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Double Date With Deep-Sea. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Don Dean, Ham Fisher, 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. Bo the dog can't compete with the new kitten for cuteness, so he decides to adopt it instead. Slap Happy accidentally winds up in the pilot's seat when Doc Static is testing out his new invention, a remote-control drone plane. The debut of Cranberry Boggs, a sort of Northeastern Li'l Abner with lobster-traps and Codville, instead of Sadie Hawkins and Dogpatch. Bizarre pre-psychedelic cover was featured in Scott Shaw!'s Oddball Comics. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Jamie Cuthbert and the Dublin Terror. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Don Dean, Ham Fisher, 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. Dixie Dugan springs into action after a handsome stranger breaks his leg, but a lawnmower makes for an odd-looking splint. Sparky Watts dreams that he's married to the worst wife ever, and his superpowers are no help. Charlie Chan helps track down kidnappers who've taken a young boy hostage. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Paddy Doyle. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Tom DeAngelo, Don Dean, Ham Fisher, 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. Skyman encounters an artist who uses his paintings as a way to case buildings for future robberies. Fragile millionaire Spencer Strongheart looks exactly like super-powered Sparky Watts, which causes some confusion after Spencer is kidnapped. Charlie Chan and Kirk find themselves in a strange situation after a plane crashes on a beautiful, reclusive woman's property. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Pistols in the Morning. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ogden Whitney, Tom DeAngelo, Don Dean, Ham Fisher, 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. Skyman flies down to meet Fawn in Mexico and instead encounters her exact duplicate, who's not happy to meet him. Story (and cover) greets Skyman artist Ogden Whitney on his return from service in WWII. Spencer Strongheart, world's weakest millionaire and lookalike of super-powered Sparky Watts, asks to change places with Sparky to learn to be a better man. Charlie Chan pursues Cameo Carey and her brother Derek after they kidnap two men. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Squire Kingman Comes to Propose. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ogden Whitney, Tom DeAngelo, Don Dean, Ham Fisher, 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. Granny is scandalized that Cranberry Boggs went and got himself a tattoo, until she sees what it says. When Sparky Watts winds up walking down the aisle with the fiancee of lookalike Spencer Strongheart, only his super-speed can save him from marriage. Dixie Dugan's mysterious, wealthy new beau wants to transform her into a debutante, and she's not sure how she feels about that. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; The Revolution and a Bit of Dentistry. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ogden Whitney, Tom DeAngelo, Don Dean, Ham Fisher, 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. Skyman secretly plans to launch his latest ship to the moon itself, but Fawn finds out about it, and so does a gangster who wants the rocket for himself. Slap Happy becomes the latest target of Coquette Circe, the beautiful woman who drives ugly men to suicide. Tony Trent is angry after stunt-flier Hellcat Rankin takes Tony's fiancee Babs with him on his latest dangerous flight. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; All in a Lifetime; Jamie Cuthbert's Duel. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ogden Whitney, Tom DeAngelo, Don Dean, Jeff Machamer, Ham Fisher, 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. Skyman launches his experimental spaceship toward the moon, unaware that he's carrying two stowaways. Doc Static suggests to Sparky Watts that a road trip is the best way to cure Slap Happy's ills. After he reads a comic book to his niece and nephew, Brass Knuckles dreams that he is Superman spoof Dooperman on an encounter with the Moon Men. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Hollywood Husband; Squire Kingsman's Front Tooth. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Gardner Fox, Ogden Whitney, Tom DeAngelo, Don Dean, Jeff Machamer, Ham Fisher, 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. Skyman finds two surprising things on the moon: Fawn, his stowaway girlfriend, and fugitive Nazis. Sparky Watts becomes a rainmaking machine after Slap Happy accidentally knocks him skyward. Charlie Chan reveals the story of the Lottery Murders. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; All in a Lifetime; Hollywood Husband; Good Old Bumpy. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Ogden Whitney, Tom DeAngelo, Don Dean, Ham Fisher, 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. Joe Palooka convinces his trainer Knobby to give another fighter some good advice, even though Knobby's already bet against him. This was the last appearance of Joe Palooka in Big Shot; he next appeared in Joe Palooka (1945 Harvey) #1. Doc Static's new invention puts Sparky Watts into suspended animation, and he is carried off by hungry vultures. After crash-landing his ship on the moon, Skyman encounters a moon-girl and escaped Nazi war criminals, including Hitler himself! Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Cranberry Boggs; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; Tony Trent; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; Good Old Bumpy: Help Wanted. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.