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| Pages 9 and 10 are actually duplicate pages from a later story in this issue. The actual pages 9 and 10 are missing. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Photo may be hand-colored. |
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| Cover | The Desperate Jeeters |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy (photo of William Boyd) |
| Notes | Photo may be hand-colored. |
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| Featuring | Kodak |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Ad for Kodak Brownie Reflex cameras and Verichrome film. |
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| Contents | Hopalong Cassidy Starring William Boyd (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy (cameo) |
| Notes | Table of contents with illustration. Also list of Fawcett comics. |
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| Comic Story | The Desperate Jeeters (8.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hopalong and Mesquite have to deal with two juvenile delinquents who nearly start a war with the Indians. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite; Topper (horse); Bud Jeeter; Freckles Jeeter |
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| Comic Story | Horsing Around |
| Synopsis | A man at a restaurant thinks he's been served horsemeat. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Advertisement | Sibby Sisti (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wheaties |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Sibby Sisti |
| Notes | Ad for Wheaties breakfast cereal featuring Boston Braves baseball player Sibby Sisti, who was Minor League Player of the Year in 1946. General Mills, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | Time to Leave! |
| Synopsis | Hill Billy takes offense when a man gives advice on how to feed his pigs. |
| Featuring | Hill Billy |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hill Billy; Elmer |
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| Comic Story | Pistol Packin' Pattie Nails One Down |
| Synopsis | Bully Bad Bill brags about being "tough as nails," so Pattie whacks him with a hammer. |
| Featuring | Pistol Packin' Pattie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pistol Packin' Pattie; Bad Bill |
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| Advertisement | New Eveready Flashlight Batteries (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Eveready Flashlight Batteries, featuring an illustration of a weight-lifter. National Carbon Company, Inc., New York 17, N.Y. |
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| Comic Story | The Lost Bet (6.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sure-Bet is running cock fights, where he always wins. Sure-Bet's accomplice captures Hopalong and Mesquite, but they escape and capture the crooked gamblers. |
| Featuring | Hopalong Cassidy |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite; Topper (horse) |
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| Publisher advertisement | Don Winslow |
| Featuring | Comix Cards |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Don Winslow |
| Notes | Two Comix Cards to cut-out, featuring Don Winslow. |
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| Comic Story | The High-Jumping King (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Whitey tells tall tales about jumping horses. |
| Featuring | Whitey Whiskers and Daniel Boone Jr. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Whitey Whiskers; Daniel Boone Jr.; Blackwind (horse) |
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| Captain Tootsie Saves the Sailplane (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A small child accidentally releases the brake on a glider and only Captain Tootsie's strength enables him to grab the tow rope and pull the glider back down. |
| Content | Characters: Captain Tootsie; Rollo; Buddy |
| Notes | Credited to "C.C. Beck and Peter Costanza." Tootsie Rolls candy. |
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| Comic Story | Widow Jones' Birthday Party (6.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mesquite bakes a cake for Widow Jones' birthday party, but Practical Joker Pate ruins the gift by putting 110 candles on it. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite; Widow Jones; Practical Joker Pate |
| Notes | Hopalong just makes brief appearances at the start and end of the story. |
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| Comic Story | A Natural Answer |
| Synopsis | A man gets sent on a fool's errand. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Text Story | A Bandit for Tubby (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Black Bandit always strikes on days when the wind will blow sand to fill in his tracks. Sheriff Tubby Taylor sets a trap for him when the banker blurts out that the sheriff is holding the bank's gold in his safe. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tubby Taylor; The Black Bandit; Al Greenan |
| Notes | Text story with one small illustration. |
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| Comic Story | The Last Laugh (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pete sets up practical jokes in a conference room for his club's meeting, but the boss, Mr. Smith, decides to have a meeting with bankers in that room earlier in the afternoon. |
| Featuring | Peewee Pete |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Peewee Pete; Mr. Smith |
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| Comic Story | Cavalier of the Plains (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man disguises himself as "The Cavalier of the Plains" get revenge on a man for framing him for robbery 20 years ago in France and having him sent to prison. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite (cameo) |
| Notes | A plot point in "The Count of Monte Cristo," is referenced in the story. |
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| Advertisement | The Case of the Box Car Bandit (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sam helps a teen fighting a thug on a freight train. |
| Featuring | The Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil |
| Content | Characters: Sam Spade; Effie |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic. |
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| Advertisement | Snap! Crackle! and Pop! Crown the Camp Canoe Kings (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Snap, Crackle, and Pop help two boys win a canoe race. |
| Featuring | Snap! Crackle! and Pop!; Kellogg's Rice Krispies |
| Content | Characters: Snap; Crackle; Pop |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Kellogg's Rice Krispies breakfast cereal. |
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| Advertisement | Bear Bike Facts (1 page) |
| Featuring | Gillette Bicycle Tires |
| Content | Characters: The Gillette Bear |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Black, red, and white. Facts about the history of bicycles. Gillette Bicycle Tires. |
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| Advertisement | Drama on the Highway! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | R.C. and Quickie use a baseball to foil an attempt to hijack a truck. |
| Featuring | Adventures of "R.C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola |
| Content | Characters: R.C.; Quickie; William Boyd (as Hopalong Cassidy) (cameo) |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad in comic format for Royal Crown Cola soft drink. William Boyd (drawn in Hopalong Cassidy outfit) appears in a stand-alone panel at the end promoting the product. |
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