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Big Shot Comics 043

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Issue: #43
Published: February 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing: Vin Sullivan
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: Tom DeAngelo [as TDA] (signed) \| Inks: Tom DeAngelo [as TDA] (signed)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Sparky Watts Adolph Hitler

Comic Story (10 pages)	Herr Schmutz's Spy Ring
Synopsis:	General Powers and Senator Smutherline use Sparky as bait to lure out a Nazi spy ring.
Credits:	Script: Boody Rogers \| Pencils: Boody Rogers \| Inks: Boody Rogers
Genre:	Satire-parody Superhero
Characters:	Sparky Watts Herr Schmutz (introduction, Villain) The Eye (introduction, Villain) Burton Doc Static General Powers Senator Smutherline Slap Happy

Comic Story (1 page)	More Army Life
Synopsis:	Jerry volunteers to search for a raiding party that's overdue to report; when Jerry fails to report within two hours, Joe offers to go in search of Jerry and the raiding party.
Credits:	Script: Ham Fisher \| Pencils: Ham Fisher \| Inks: Ham Fisher
Genre:	Humor War
Characters:	Joe Palooka Jerry Leemy

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Synthetic Rubber Formula, Part 4
Synopsis:	Capt. Yank and his companions join a group of traveling pilgrims to sneak past Japanese soldiers to reach Hangchow.
Credits:	Script: Frank Tinsley \| Pencils: Frank Tinsley \| Inks: Frank Tinsley
Genre:	War
Characters:	Dr. Lin Wing Capt. Yank Wong Chu-Ling

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Pet Show
Synopsis:	The day before a pet show, Bo spends the night chasing after cats leaving him tired and lethargic at the competition.
Credits:	Script: Frank Beck \| Pencils: Frank Beck \| Inks: Frank Beck
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Bo (a Dog) Junior Mr. Brown Wilfred Bertram

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Hydraulic Boomerang, Part 5
Credits:	Script: Alfred Andriola \| Pencils: Alfred Andriola \| Inks: Alfred Andriola
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Charlie Chan Admiral Rudley Sparks Gina Capt. Recker Hans Otto Zara J. Edgar Hoover Kirk

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Redwood Forest, Part 5
Synopsis:	After preparing an "accident" for Dixie, Mickey, and Hale, Wolfe and Rellini coerce Wood into signing away his timberland.
Credits:	Script: J. P. McEvoy
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Dixie Dugan Mickey Bud Hale Mr. Wood Mr. Wolfe Rellini

Text Story (2 pages)	The Coastal Plan
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Spy War
Characters:	Wilhelm Von Glick Private Glauber Lt. Lasser Thomas McBride Johan Stevennson

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Submersible Aircraft Carrier
Synopsis:	Skyman discovers that the Japanese are using a submersible aircraft carrier as a base of operations to strike at targets.
Credits:	Script: Gardner Fox [as Paul Dean] \| Pencils: Ogden Whitney (signed) \| Inks: Ogden Whitney (signed)
Genre:	Aviation War
Characters:	Skyman Admiral McGuire

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Exposure of Major Koenig
Credits:	Script: Wexler \| Pencils: Paine \| Inks: Paine
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Vic Jordan Adrienne Godfrey Hawks [Capt. Koenig]

Comic Story (1 page)
Credits:	Script: Frank Beck \| Pencils: Frank Beck \| Inks: Frank Beck
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (8 pages)	Flat-Top Floogie
Featuring:	Face
Credits:	Script: Gardner Fox \| Pencils: Ogden Whitney (Mart Bailey) \| Inks: Ogden Whitney
Genre:	War
Characters:	Flat-Top Floogie Face [Tony Trent] Lt. Haroll Jinx Jenton

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