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Issue: Hopalong Cassidy #53 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1951
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Issues: #53 of 85 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 9
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Will Lieberson; V. A. Provisiero; Al Jetter
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Trouble in Triplicate!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Hopalong Cassidy
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy (photograph of William Boyd); Topper (horse)
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Pages: 1
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Trouble in Triplicate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Certa
Inker(s): Joe Certa
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Hopalong Cassidy
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite; Trigger Clinton (badman)
First Line: Hopalong Cassidy is on his guard when he hears that Trigger Clinton,E
Synopsis: When three identical Trigger Clintons appear, Hopalong finds himself in three times as much danger. It turns out that two of them wear Clinton masks.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Certa is credited on Hopalong Cassidy by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The bony faces with mustache, and hats and movements are all typical of Certa. Very similar to many of his Durango Kid stories.
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Gunning for Trouble

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Al Packer (signed)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Windy Daley (cook); Larry; Sage casey (foreman); Jed Corey (gunslinger)
Synopsis: Jed Corey, the fastest gunslinger in the west is captured by the cook.
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Pages: 2
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Make a Treasure Chest

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Scotch Cellophane Tape
Synopsis: How to make a cardboard chest with Scotch Tape.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Bright Boy Bryson
Character(s): Bryson; Cranby
First Line: Howdy, Cranby...huh??
Synopsis: How to meet expences by turning in any direction.
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In Content Item: FlagTV Teens #12 published April 1956
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The Twin River Champion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Hopalong Cassidy
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite (deputy); Bronco Sam;
Synopsis: A rodeo rider is kidnapped and sends kerchief "messages" to Hopalong.
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Pages: 7
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Inker(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fleer's Dubble Bubble
Character(s): Pud; Tommy
First Line: Gee, Tommy, what a neat skating sweater!
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Quiz
Character(s): Dean Acheson
First Line: This is a quiz that will really test your brainwork...
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The Outrageous Coyote

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Whitey Whiskers
Character(s): Whitey Whiskers; Butch Browne
Synopsis: Whitey can't be intimidated, because he don't know what the word means.
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Terror at the Carnival

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Quinlan
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): A Mesquite Story
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite (deputy); Rube (carnival owner and smuggler); Clegg (carnival owner and smuggler)
Synopsis: The carnival is used as a front for smugling arm across the border.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Quinlan is credited on pencils on Hopalong Cassidy by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art with movement and faces, is very similar to his credited story in Catman #25 and 26a.
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Pardner

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The U.S. Time Corporation
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse)
Synopsis: Here's your shockproof Hopalong Cassidy wrist watch.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Wealthy Welby
Character(s): Welby; Sue
First Line: Here comes that awful bore, Welby!
Synopsis: Sue wouldn't marry Welby for all the the money in the world.
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Big Reader!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Hill Billy
Character(s): Hill Billy
Synopsis: Billy don't like the dictionary, because it changes the subject too often.
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On Sale Now!

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Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Imperial Knife Co., Inc.
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse)
Synopsis: Official Hopalong Cassidy Cutlery on sale now.
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Quiz
Character(s): Julius Caesar
First Line: This is a quiz that will really test your brainwork...
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Dandruff Trouble!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Bolle
Inker(s): Frank Bolle
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Pistol Packin' Pattie
Character(s): Pattie; Cooper
Synopsis: She calls him Dandruff because he gets in her hair.
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Pages: 0.66
Disclose Notes: Bolle is credited on Pistol Packin' Pattie by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and faces and inklines are similar to his Tim Holt stories.
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For the First Time in a Comic Magazine!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Captain Video
Character(s): Captain Video [Judd Holdren]
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): The Foreman's Hands
Character(s): Foreman; Cook; Tim
First Line: Some day to send us out on the range!
Synopsis: Tim is trying to make the foreman complain so he can win a bet.
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Pages: 4
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The Last of the Bioux

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Elkan ?
Inker(s): Max Elkan ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Hopalong Cassidy
Character(s): Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Running Beaver; Mesquite (deputy); Chief Toro
Synopsis: The Swangee tribe has a cunning plan to wipe out the Bioux tribe to take over their land for themselves.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Elkan is credited on Hopalong by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and some faces, as the scared chief, flimsy inking of Hoppy's hair, and much of the movement is not far from his other stories in this series, but not certain.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Whole back cover missing from scan.

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