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Issue: Big Shot Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagColumbia
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Columbia Comic Corporation
On Sale Date: 04/14/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Vin Sullivan
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the fanzine, Fantasy News, dated April 14, 1940 (on page 3). The comic was scheduled for release during the week of April 14-20, 1940. Information shared by Bart Bush through the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (4 October 2016).

Publication date of 27 March 1940, volume number was reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Copyright number B 453359.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Title Pages Job Number Notes
[untitled]
Illustration on Cover, Front
1    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
9   Whitney signs on the final page.
Joe's Decision
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Food Shortage
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   Bailey signs (as MB) on the final page. Blake byline credited to Fox in the Who's Who.
Snow Activity
Story on Interior Page(s)
3   The top tier of each page features Good Deed Dotty, by the same creators.
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   Ernst signs in the final panel.
Heroes Are Born
Text Article on Interior Page(s)
2   Text story with illustration
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
8   Guardineer signs (as FBG 39) in the final panel.
A Touch of Pacifism
Story on Interior Page(s)
2   The top tier of the first page is "Testimonials", the second "Optimisms", by the same creator.
[untitled]
Cartoon on Interior Page(s)
1   Five unrelated gag panels.
The Murder of Norda Noll
Story on Interior Page(s)
5    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
2    
Bhangi Si's on the Warpath
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   Whitney signs on the final page.
The Detonator Ray
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Mirror Image
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    

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