Big Shot Comics

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Greenrd (talk | contribs) at 21:38, 17 March 2007 (Robot-assisted disambiguation: Magician). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Big Shot Comics was an American comic book series published by Columbia Comics during the 1940s period fans and historians refer to as the Golden Age of comic books. It ran 104 issues, cover-dated May 1940 to August 1949. With issue #30 (Dec. 1032), the title was shortened to simply Big Shot. An omnibus title,

File:BigShot1.gif
Big Shot Comics #1 (May 1940). Cover art by Ogden Whitney.

The series included a mix of superheroes, costumed crimefighters, crusading district attorneys, heroic magicians and others, both in original stories and in reprinted newspaper comic strip from the McNaught Syndicate. The latter included such popular strips as Dixie Dugan, Joe Palooka, and the movie-series spin-off Charlie Chan.

Original characters included Skyman and Spy-Master.

References