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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Big Shot 71 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: monthly |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Feature | Brass Knuckles and Slap Happy (from Sparky Watts) |
| Story | Joe Palooka (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two boys, Casey and Max, build an airplane from junk parts. When it crashes, Joe Palooka buys them a small train. Knobby Walsh gets rail tickets belonging to someone else and is found out. Joe Palooka sees a rabbit in a country meadow but, when he returns two hours later, flowers have been torn up and trash scattered everywhere. |
| Pencils | Ham Fisher (signed) |
| Inks | Ham Fisher (signed) |
| First Line | Howda do. I'm Mister Pat Casey, the well-known sport preemoter. |
| Story | Sparky Watts (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two inventors, Pat Pending and Doc Static, attempt to bring water to desperately dry Appledale. Slap Happy accidentally turns on the cosmic ray machine, sending Sparky Watts hurtling through clouds, creating rain. |
| Pencils | Tom DeAngelo (signed) |
| Inks | Tom DeAngelo (signed) |
| First Line | One week--and still no water! |
| Comic Story | Two Strangers / The Skyman (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | While exploring the moon, Skyman has fallen into a ravine and been knocked unconscious. He is found by two Germans, Gloria Van Dorn, a beautiful redhead, and Kurt, a vicious Nazi, who tries to steal Skyman's ship. Hidden on the ship are reporter Alec Benson (who had met Gloria in Germany in 1938 and fallen in love with her) and Fawn Carroll, who is in love with Skyman. Skyman slugs Kurt and they take off for home in the rocket ship. But the engines go dead. |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Ogden Whitney (signed) |
| Inks | Ogden Whitney (signed) |
| First Line | And now, what happens to us? |
| Notes | title from last issue blurb |
| Story | Dixie Dugan (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Last part of sequence about bossy mother-in-law. |
| Script | J. P. McEvoy |
| Pencils | John Striebel (see notes) |
| First Line | There's going to be no more dissention in the family from now on |
| Notes | Writer and artist credit under logo states "by McEvoy and Striebel" |
| Story | Brass Knuckles (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Brass runs away from a little girl who wants him to meet her aunt Ginger. He runs into an ice cream vendor and is helped by a beautiful redhead, who turns our to be Ginger. In the second two page sequence (which has a separate logo), he calls on Ginger with flowers and candy, but leaves when he sees her other suitors, who have looks, strength and money. But Ginger prefers Brass and runs after him. |
| Script | Mart Bailey ? |
| Pencils | Mart Bailey |
| Inks | Mart Bailey |
| First Line | Hello, mister! |
| Text Story | Good Old Bumpy (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Three sailors with a parrot are in a bar. When they can't pay their bill, they sell the parrot to another patron, named Good Old Bumpy. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Mart Bailey (signed) |
| Story | Cranberry Boggs (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cran is impressed by a new "beam trawler" fishing ship, but he falls into the catch and then smells like fish. A little girl is not catching any fish using gumdrops for bait so Cran helps her. |
| Script | Don Dean |
| Pencils | Don Dean (signed) |
| First Line | Avast, Cran, stop muggin' up and shove off! |
| Story | Bo (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Junior puts an old sweater on Bo. |
| Script | Frank Beck |
| Pencils | Frank Beck |
| Inks | Frank Beck |
| First Line | Why are you sniffing and fussing around the door so much, Bo? |
| Story | Charlie Chan (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Charlie Chan begins to tell the story of the Lottery Murders to his son, Lee. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Script | Alfred Andriola |
| Pencils | Alfred Andriola |
| Inks | Alfred Andriola |
| First Line | I'm afraid it's measles, Lee! |
| Story | All in a Lifetime |
| Script | Frank Beck |
| Pencils | Frank Beck |
| Inks | Frank Beck |
| First Line | Tell your mother I couldn't find a thing that needs to be done to your teeth. |
| Notes | Lower half of page has small advertisements. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Husband finds he can't get just a shave at a barber shop and, when he goes home, he can't get just a shave there either. |
| Feature | Hollywood Husband |
| Script | Jefferson Machamer |
| Pencils | Jefferson Machamer |
| Inks | Jefferson Machamer |
| First Line | A shave you want? |
| Story | Tony Trent (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tony and Liz Doyle, "radio's glamour girl," are flying to Tokyo when their plane goes off course over the Burile islands. The plane is attacked by communist planes displaying the red star. The Jabo Jockeys come to their aid and shoot down several planes. Back on the ground, the General tells the pilot, Captain Bailey, that he is proud of the flyers even if they caused an international incident. |
| Job # | 83 |
| Script | Mart Bailey |
| Pencils | Mart Bailey (signed) |
| Inks | Mart Bailey (signed) |
| First Line | We must be off our course - I don't recognize those islands |
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