Hopalong Cassidy #53

(May 1951)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover missing from scan.

Trouble in Triplicate (Table of Contents)

Hopalong Cassidy / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Certa

Inks:

Joe Certa

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Western

Characters:

Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Trigger Clinton (badman)

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.

Indexer 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.

Gunning fot Trouble (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Packer (signed)

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Western

Characters:

Windy Daley (cook); Larry; Sage casey (foreman); Jed Corey (gunslinger)

Synopsis:

Jed Corey, the fastest gunslinger in the west is captured by the cook.

Make a Treasure Chest (Table of Contents)

Scotch Cellophane Tape / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

How to make a cardboard chest with Scotch Tape.

["Howdy, Cranby...huh??"] (Table of Contents)

Bright Boy Bryson / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

Western; Humor

Characters:

Bryson; Cranby

Synopsis:

How to meet expences by turning in any direction.

The Twin River Champion (Table of Contents)

Hopalong Cassidy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

Western

Characters:

Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite (deputy); Bronco Sam;

Synopsis:

A rodeo rider is kidnapped and sends kerchief "messages" to Hopalong.

"Gee, Tommy, what a neat skating sweater!" (Table of Contents)

Fleer's Dubble Bubble / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)

Inks:

Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Pud; Tommy

Synopsis:

Skating contest and buble gum.

["This is a quiz that will really test your brainwork..."] (Table of Contents)

Quiz / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Dean Acheson

The Outrageous Coyote (Table of Contents)

Whitey Whiskers / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

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Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Western; Humor

Characters:

Whitey Whiskers; Butch Browne

Synopsis:

Whitey can't be intimidated, because he don't know what the word means.

Terror at the Carnival (Table of Contents)

A Mesquite Story / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Charles Quinlan

Inks:

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Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Western

Characters:

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.

Indexer 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.

Pardner (Table of Contents)

The U.S. Time Corporation / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse)

Synopsis:

Here's your shockproof Hopalong Cassidy wrist watch.

["Here comes that awful bore, Welby!"] (Table of Contents)

Wealthy Welby / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Western; Humor

Characters:

Welby; Sue

Synopsis:

Sue wouldn't marry Welby for all the the money in the world.

Big Reader! (Table of Contents)

Hill Billy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

Hill Billy

Synopsis:

Billy don't like the dictionary, because it changes the subject too often.

On Sale Now! (Table of Contents)

Imperial Knife Co., Inc. / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse)

Synopsis:

Official Hopalong Cassidy Cutlery on sale now.

"This is a quiz that will really test your brainwork..." (Table of Contents)

Quiz / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Characters:

Julius Cesar

Dandruff Trouble! (Table of Contents)

Pistol Packin' Pattie / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Bolle

Inks:

Frank Bolle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Western; Humor

Characters:

Pattie; Cooper

Synopsis:

She calls him Dandruff because he gets in her hair.

Indexer 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.

For the First Time in a Comic Magazine! (Table of Contents)

Captain Video / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.34 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typset

Content Information

Genre:

Science fiction

Characters:

Captain Video [Judd Holdren]

["Some day to send us out on the range!"] (Table of Contents)

The Foreman's Hands / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

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Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

Western; Humor

Characters:

Foreman; Cook; Tim

Synopsis:

Tim is trying to make the foreman complain so he can win a bet.

The Last of the Bioux (Table of Contents)

Hopalong Cassidy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Max Elkan ?

Inks:

Max Elkan ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Western

Characters:

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.

Indexer 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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

blank page(s) / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Whole back cover missing from scan.