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Issue Details

Issue #380
Published December 1988 ?
Cover Price 0 FREE
Pages 16
Editing ?
Notes Free to customers; price to non-customers shown as 0.50 USD.

Cover Details - "Help! It's All A Mistake!"

Characters Big Boy
Synopsis Big Boy rides a bull.
Genre humor
Pencils Manny Stallman (signed)
Inks Manny Stallman (signed)

1 page Dear Big Boy letters page "Dolly! Come Look At All The Letters We Got!!"

Characters Big Boy; Jamie Szabo; Jenny McDougalle
Synopsis Letters from Erica Exner, Jamie Szabo, Sharonda White, Sarah Davies, Brandy Smith, Lisa LaBreque, Andy Schafer, Jenny McDougalle, Katie Hemker, Catherine Esch, Amy Lindsey, and Kris, along with 2 photos.
Script ? [as Big Boy]
Pencils ?; ? (photo)
Inks ?;? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Includes one illustration.

7 page Big Boy story "Big Boy's Mexican Adventure"

Characters Big Boy; Dolly; Miss Widdle; Slipery Sam
Synopsis Big Boy leaves his school tour of a bull ring to trap a wanted criminal, gets mistaken as a matador, and has to battle the bull.
Genre humor; adventure
Script Manfred Bernhard ?
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks Manny Stallman
Letters ?; typeset
Notes Some of the narration is typeset. Likely writer credit from interview at http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/big-deal-on-big-boy-street.

2 page Big Boy Club Pages activity "Big Boy Club Pages"

Synopsis Jokes, story, code fun, a puzzle and a membership form.
Script ?; Shelly Griffith
Letters ?; typeset
Notes A short story by reader Shelly Griffith is included.

1 page Big Boy & Coke advertisement "Can You Color This Big Boy and Coke And Stay In The Lines?"

Letters typeset
Notes Ad is mostly uncolored for readers to color in.

1 page Big Boy story "A Case of Overacting"

Characters Big Boy; Dolly; actor
Synopsis Big Boy demonstrates acting with an unfinished set and it falls on him.
Genre humor
Script Manfred Bernhard ?
Notes Likely writer credit from interview at http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/big-deal-on-big-boy-street.

1 page Big Boy activity "Family Color Portrait"

Characters Big Boy; Dolly; Nugget
Letters typeset
Notes Uncolored illustration for the reader to color in.

Half page Pen Pal List text article "Another Popular Pen Pal List"

Synopsis List of readers' addresses for pen pals.
Letters typeset

Half page Readers' Art Gallery letters page "Readers' Art Gallery"

Synopsis Readers' art.
Pencils Mark Lefebre; Phenice Jamerson; Stacy Petigac; Rosa Medina
Inks Mark Lefebre; Phenice Jamerson; Stacy Petigac; Rosa Medina
Letters Mark Lefebre; Phenice Jamerson; Stacy Petigac; Rosa Medina

Half page activity "Looks Easy" Maze That's Real Tough!

Synopsis a maze
Notes back cover

Half page Frisch's Big Boy Family Restaurants advertisement "Order By Phone And Take 'Em Home!"

Letters typeset
Notes back cover