Vintage restaurant promotional comic book: Adventures of the Big Boy, issue #199, November 1973. Printed in the U.S.A. 1973. 17 printed pages. 

This comic series was given away free to children at Big Boy Restaurants/ Abdow's Family Restaurants.  The star of the comic strip series was the Big Boy Restaurant mascot "Big Boy".

Synopsis: Comic strip stories in this issue are "To Sleep, Maybe To Dream (definitely not by Shakespeare!)", and "Leave It To The Big Boy (To get the right results...with the wrong means!)".  The issue also includes the series regular features: "Dear Big Boy" column, Big Boy Club Pages (including crossword, pen pal list, and more), Storyteller's Corner, a form to join the Big Boy Club, "State of the Union": Tennessee (monthly feature with info about different states), and a letter to readers by "Big Boy, Dolly, and Nugget".

The back page also has a listing of Abdow's Big Boy restaurants in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and page 5 has an ad showing an illustration of a Big Boy hamburger/Coca Cola combo and bowling pins.

Condition: The comic is in very good condition. The front cover has a small 1/4" tear on the right edge, and there is some light stress marks from being read along the left edge (see photos). The covers and inner pages of this comic series were printed on newsprint type paper (not glossy).