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| Publication | July 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008) |
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| Cover | The Death Race |
| Featuring | Hopalong Cassidy |
| Credits | Pencils: Norman Saunders (painting) | Inks: Norman Saunders (painting) | Colors: Norman Saunders (painting) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse) |
| Notes | Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008) |
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| Publisher advertisement | 100,000 Model Builders Can't Be Wrong! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Mechanix Illustrated |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Promo for scale model plans for planes, cars, and boats from Mechanix Illustrated. |
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| Comic Story | The Death Race (10.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Three men find a treasure chest buried in the hills, but argue on how to divide it. Hopalong suggests a wagon race between the three men, but the race turns deadly. |
| Featuring | Hopalong Cassidy |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite; Topper (horse); Big Kansas; Stirrup; Abner |
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| Publisher advertisement | Allan "Rocky" Lane |
| Featuring | Comix Cards |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Rocky Lane |
| Notes | Two cards to cut-out, featuring Allan "Rocky" Lane. |
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| Comic Story | Burned Up! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Hill Billy tries to buy insurance while his house is on fire. |
| Featuring | Hill Billy |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hill Billy |
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| Advertisement | River Rescue (1 page) |
| Synopsis | R.C. saves a girl from drowning after her boat hits a rock in the river. |
| Featuring | R.C. and Quickie |
| Content | Characters: R.C.; Quickie |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Royal Crown Cola soft drink. |
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| Comic Story | Fowl Fellow (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A rancher offers Whitey a meal if he'll cook supper for his cowhands. Whitey decides it's too much work to pluck the chickens, so he roasts them, feathers and all. |
| Featuring | Whitey Whiskers |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Whitey Whiskers |
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| Text Story | Rescue Hoss (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dan'l Miggins, the town bum, risks his life to save Lucky Jack when Jack enters a burning stable to try to save his horse. The horse had been stolen and the stable set afire to cover the theft. Jack tracks down the horse, but Dan'l is in bad shape after breathing the smoke in the fire. |
| Credits | Script: Walt Farmer (credited) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lucky Jack; Tumbleweed (horse); Dan'l Miggins; Banker Brown |
| Notes | Text story with small illustration. |
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| Advertisement | How 'Rocky' Lane Rescued Black Jack (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Rocky Lane rescues his horse after it has been stolen by outlaws. |
| Featuring | Rocky Lane; Carnation Malted Milk |
| Content | Characters: Rocky Lane; Black Jack (horse) |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Carnation Malted Milk. |
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| Advertisement | It's "Flaphappy" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Post Grape-Nuts |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for flying toy available for 15 cents and a box top from Post's Grape-Nuts (or Grape-Nuts Flakes) breakfast cereal. |
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| Comic Story | The Mysterious Letter (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A rancher dies and leaves his grandson Tom Harbert a map to chest of diamonds buried in the hills. Two thugs rob him and end up with part of the map. Harbert mails the rest of the map to Hopalong, but the thugs convince Hopalong that Harbert sold them the map. |
| Featuring | Hopalong Cassidy |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite; Topper (horse); Tom Harbert |
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| Featuring | Monark Bicycles |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Monark Bicyles. |
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| Comic Story | The Rope's End! (6.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | An escaped convict steals a professor's clothes and takes his place as a boarder at Widow Jones' boarding house. When he robs the widow, Mesquite has to save the day with his lariat. |
| Featuring | Hopalong Cassidy |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Mesquite; Widow Jones; Hopalong Cassidy |
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| Activity | Aim for the Target |
| Notes | A five-question quiz. |
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| Advertisement | Rescue from the Redskins (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Red dreams he escapes from the Indians in his Ball Band canvas shoes, only to have a frontiersman decide he wants Red's shoes for himself. |
| Featuring | A Dreamland Drama feeturing "Red" Walker; Ball Band |
| Content | Characters: Red Walker |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Ball Band canvas shoes. Ball Band; Mishawaka, Ind. (In Feature, "feeturing" is wordplay using "feet" in an ad for shoes.) |
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| Comic Story | Interruption (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Patty insults blowhard Showboat Hodges. |
| Featuring | Pistol Packing Pattie |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Bolle | Inks: Frank Bolle |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pistol Packing Pattie; Showboat Hodges |
| Notes | Art credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Hopalong Cassidy and the Logging Camp Jam (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Stokes-Lawless logging camp sends logs down the river each week, but only half arrive at the sawmill. Hopalong investigates. |
| Featuring | Hopalong Cassidy |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite (cameo); Topper (horse) |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated ad for Flagg Brand character polo shirts. Characters available are Gene Autry; Captain Marvel; Little Beaver; and Red Ryder. 69 cents each from J. T. Flagg Knitting Co., Inc., Florence, Alabama. (Character illustrations are so small as to be unrecognizable if they didn't have the character name by them.) |
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| Comic Story | Exercise |
| Synopsis | Wilbur tells a customer he should do less exercise with his knife and fork. |
| Featuring | Wilbur the Waiter |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wilbur the Waiter |
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| Advertisement | Escaped Bear...and a Bare Escape! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jim Wise takes his boys out for a hike, where they meet a bear that has escaped from a circus. |
| Featuring | Jim Wise "P-F" Story |
| Content | Characters: Jim Wise |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for "P-F" canvas shoes. B. F. Goodrich and Hood Rubber Co. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Look for...A Fawcett Publication (1 page) |
| Featuring | Fawcett |
| Credits | Pencils: (various) | Inks: (various) |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Promo for Fawcett comics. Covers to Captain Marvel; Nyoka the Jungle Girl; Rocky Lane Western; Master Comics; The Marvel Family; Gabby Hayes Western; Hopalong Cassidy; Whiz Comics; Captain Marvel, Jr.; Monte Hale Western; Western Hero; Tom Mix Western; and Lash LaRue Western are depicted. |
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| Advertisement | Free B-B's! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Daisy B-B Guns |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for Daisy B-B guns. Red Ryder 1000-shot Carbine is depicted. Mail-in coupon for Daisy Handbook #2 (and a packet of 30 B-B's) for ten cents and one three-cent stamp. Daisy Manufacturing Co., Plymouth, Mich. |
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