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Big Shot Comics 071 (upgrade) (now c2c)

originally scanned by darkmark from a book missing its centerfold, centerfold fills scanned by soothsayr-novus

Issue: #71
Published: November 1946, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Brass Knuckles and Slap Happy (from Sparky Watts)

Comic Story (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.

Comic Story (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.

Comic Story (6 pages)

Two Strangers

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.

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Last part of sequence about bossy mother-in-law.

Comic Story (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.

Comic Story (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.

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Junior puts an old sweater on Bo.

Comic Story (4 pages)
Synopsis:	Charlie Chan begins to tell the story of the Lottery Murders to his son, Lee.
Genre:	Detective-mystery

Comic Story (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.

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