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| Date | | Number: 44 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Big Shot 44 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 1. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Slap Happy |
| First Line | Tsk, tsk, Slap Happy! |
| Advertisement | 10 Power Telescope (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Here's the only full 10 Power Telescope at this price in America today |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
| Comic Story | Little Max, Stowaway / Joe Palooka (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Little Max stows away aboard a military vessel when he feels that Alice has forsaken him. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Alice; Little Max; Uncle George; Sis |
| Script | Ham Fisher |
| Pencils | Ham Fisher |
| Inks | Ham Fisher |
| First Line | Goodbye, dear--Alice will go to the bus with you-- |
| Notes | strip reprints |
| Story | Joe Palooka (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Joe and Jerry play football against a rival army outfit. |
| Genre | Humor; War |
| Characters | Joe Palooka; Jerry Leemy |
| Script | Ham Fisher |
| Pencils | Ham Fisher |
| Inks | Ham Fisher |
| First Line | I'll explain how we've mapped the strategy... |
| Story | Joe Palooka (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Knobby learns that he missed seeing Joe Palooka on a newsreel because he was sleeping during the movie. Excited to see Joe on screen, Knobby purchases another ticket for the film that he just slept through. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Knobby Walsh; Stella; Fanny; Horace |
| Script | Ham Fisher |
| Pencils | Ham Fisher |
| Inks | Ham Fisher |
| First Line | Gosh, what'll I do on my day off? |
| Story | Joe Palooka (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Knobby passes along some "insider" horse racing information which is intercepted and misinterpreted by German intelligence. |
| Genre | Humor; War |
| Characters | Knobby Walsh |
| Script | Ham Fisher |
| Pencils | Ham Fisher |
| Inks | Ham Fisher |
| First Line | If I tole ya some a th' top guys I know an' th' infermation I git ya could hardly b'lieve it! |
| Story | Joe Palooka (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jerry gets sunstroke taking a walk in the desert. |
| Genre | Humor; War |
| Characters | Joe Palooka; Jerry Leemy |
| Script | Ham Fisher |
| Pencils | Ham Fisher |
| Inks | Ham Fisher |
| First Line | Whew... Does this seem t'be the direction? |
| Story | All in a Lifetime (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Squinty |
| Script | Frank Beck |
| Pencils | Frank Beck |
| Inks | Frank Beck |
| First Line | I wish, now, we hadn't sent that crazy Valentine to the teacher. |
| Comic Story | Reporter's Roost / The Face (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tony goes to a reporter's hangout to root out a spy. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Face [Tony Trent]; Lt. Bob Cortell; Bill Soggans; Jack Hegan; Frank |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Ogden Whitney (Mart Bailey) |
| Inks | Ogden Whitney |
| First Line | Tony Trent, returning from the wars, expected to find peace and rest--instead he found more work for the Face! |
| Notes | The title is taken from the previous issue. |
| Comic Story | The Bender Pass Mission / Sparky Watts (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sparky is ordered to retrieve emissaries on a train and bring them to a secret military conference. |
| Genre | Humor; Satire-parody; Superhero; War |
| Characters | Sparky Watts; Gen. J. Smyth Smithers |
| Script | Tom DeAngelo |
| Pencils | Tom DeAngelo |
| Inks | Tom DeAngelo |
| First Line | In the town of Bolonia, important rail center of a one-time enemy territory, a new... |
| Comic Story | The Synthetic Rubber Formula, Part 5 / Captain Yank (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Capt. Yank and Dr. Lin learn that the Japanese are engaging in germ warfare. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Capt. Yank; Wing; Dr. Lin; Kawi |
| Script | Frank Tinsley |
| Pencils | Frank Tinsley |
| Inks | Frank Tinsley |
| First Line | Prevented from stopping Dr. Lin's mad dash into a Jap outpost, Yank angrily... |
| Notes | strip reprints |
| Comic Story | New Dog across the Street / Bo (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A new family, along with their dog, moves into the house across the street and Bo is a bit jealous of the new dog. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Bo (a dog); Junior |
| Script | Frank Beck |
| Pencils | Frank Beck |
| Inks | Frank Beck |
| First Line | The editor of the local paper wants an interview with Junior... |
| Notes | strip reprints |
| Comic Story | Zara's Spy Ring, Part 1 / Charlie Chan (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | While Charlie and company are hunting for spies in Washington, they leave Gina alone and she is kidnapped by Zara. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Sparks; Charlie Chan; Gina; Kirk; Zara |
| Script | Alfred Andriola |
| Pencils | Alfred Andriola (signed) |
| Inks | Alfred Andriola (signed) |
| First Line | Accidentally discovering the secret wavelength the foreign spies are... |
| Notes | Strip reprints. Signed by the artist on page 4 panel 6. |
| Comic Story | The Death of Major Koenig / Vic Jordan (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Adrienne comes to the rescue of Vic, who has been captured by a Nazi agent. |
| Script | Wexler |
| Pencils | Paine |
| Inks | Paine |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | Vic Jordan; Emil; Adrienne; Lt. Godfrey Hawks [Capt. Karl Koenig]; Marty; Prof. Roy; Babette; Sue; Jean; Louis; Henri De La Tierfourt |
| First Line | Vic is trapped in the secret room with the Nazi spy... |
| Notes | strip reprints |
| Comic Story | His Wife's In Pictures! (1 page) |
| Feature | Hollywood Husband |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Laurie Ann; Otho; Elsie; Greddy Laloy |
| Script | Jefferson Machamer |
| Pencils | Jefferson Machamer (signed) |
| Inks | Jefferson Machamer |
| First Line | Laurie Ann an' I'll go for a walk so it'll be quiet for... |
| Notes | Strip reprint. Signed on the last panel. |
| Text Story | Return to Mindanao (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | An American aviator is shot down and rescued by guerilla fighters in the Philippines. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Lt. Billy Rankin; Gen. Jim Flynn; Tarhatu |
| First Line | Lt. Billy Rankin hit the silk without waiting to see if the Hellcat's bullet-sawed... |
| Comic Story | The Redwood Forest, Part 6 / Dixie Dugan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dixie and gang, with the help of the U.S. Army, hunt for the saboteur, Rellini, in the woods. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Dixie Dugan; Mickey; Bud Hale; Mr. Wood; Mr. Wolfe; Rellini |
| Script | J. P. McEvoy |
| Pencils | John Striebel |
| Inks | John Striebel |
| First Line | After forcing Mr. Woods to sign over his timberland to them, Wolfe and... |
| Notes | Strip reprints. Mr. Wood is also referred to as Mr. Woods in the story. |
| Comic Story | The Gremlin / The Skyman (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Skyman selects the infamous mechanic, Gremlin, to help repair his plane, and ends up having to overcome the incompetence of his own mechanic while fighting off the Japanese. |
| Genre | Humor; War |
| Characters | Skyman; Gremlin; Corporal Peterson; Capt. Thompson |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Ogden Whitney (signed) |
| Inks | Ogden Whitney |
| First Line | In the heart of fighting China, America's 14th Army Air Force bases its Jap-smashing planes, and with... |
| Notes | Signed by Ogden Whitney on the last panel of story page 7. |
| Advertisement | Crowell / Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Magazines (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| First Line | Action that's what counts! |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Ad to earn money or prizes by selling Collier's Magazine. |
| Advertisement | Swiss Windmill Weather Forecaster (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| First Line | Outguess the weatherman |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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