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| Publication | June 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Notorious Nellie Blaine! |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Ad for Kodak Verichrome camera film. Black and white photos, but color logo and color picture of the film box. Includes promo for 1948 National High School Photographic Awards. |
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| Contents | Hopalong Cassidy starring William Boyd (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy (cameo) |
| Notes | Table of contents with story titles listed on a drawing of a gun holster. |
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| Comic Story | Hopalong Cassiday and the Notorious Nellie Blaine (8.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Outlaw Nellie Blaine stops a Pony Express rider to steal a treasure map, but Hopalong had already intercepted the rider to get the map safely to Twin River. After killing Clay Varney, Blaine pretends to be Varney's niece to lure Hopalong into a trap, not realizing that Varney was the one who had the map in the first place. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Clay Varney; Nellie Blaine (villain) |
| Notes | Teaser at end for the next issue when Hopalong tries to locate the treasure. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Ozzie; Babs |
| Featuring | Comix Cards |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Ozzie; Babs |
| Notes | Promo for Ozzie and Babs feature with clip and save headshot drawings. |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated ad for Kellogg's Shredded Wheat breakfast cereal, with in-box premium of bird pictures. |
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| Comic Story | Strong Minded |
| Synopsis | Hill Billy is asked a question in class about Hercules and Samson. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hill Billy |
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| Comic Story | Both Barrels |
| Synopsis | Pattie scolds a boy for tying tin cans to a dog's tail. |
| Featuring | Pistol Packin' Pattie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pistol Packin' Pattie |
| Notes | Art credits for this feature identified by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Popsicle Pete at the Police Academy (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pete visits a police academy to see how police train for their jobs. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Popsicle Pete |
| Notes | Top half of page is comic story. Bottom half is promo for saving Popsicle, Fudgsicle, Creamsicle, or Dreamsicle wrappers to redeem for issues of Classics Illustrated comics. Two Classics and a Popsicle Pete Adventure book for five bags and ten cents by mail. |
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| Comic Story | Hopalong Cassidy and the Dead Witness (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A stage driver escapes while a robber murders a passenger. Hopalong locks up the driver as a witness to protect him from the robber, but he is killed anyhow. Hopalong uses some scientific deduction to produce evidence to convict the killer. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite; Red Topp |
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| Comic Story | Blue Mood |
| Synopsis | Wilbur serves a customer a glass of blue milk. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wilbur |
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| Advertisement | New 1948 Monark Super Deluxe |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated ad for Monark Super Deluxe bicycles. Monark Silver King, Inc., Chicago, Ill. |
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| Text Article | Making Friends After Moving (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Advice on making new friends after moving and how to make a new kid feel at home. |
| Featuring | Ridin' Herd with William Boyd |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Boyd] |
| Content | Characters: William Boyd |
| Notes | Signed "William Boyd". Drawing is of Hopalong Cassidy, with background of western scenes. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated ad for Ball-Band canvas sport shoes. Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Mfg. Co., Mishawaka, Ind. |
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| Comic Story | Hopalong Cassidy and the Mysterious Cake (6.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | A thief hides a necklace in a cake Widow Jones is baking, not knowing it is the one she'll be taking to a picnic with Mesquite. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Mesquite; Widow Jones |
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| Activity | Be a Sharpshooter! |
| Notes | A quiz with five true or false questions. |
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| Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Captain Tootsie uses an infra red sniperscope rifle to hunt a killer bear at night. |
| Content | Characters: Coon Tail Charlie |
| Notes | Credited to "C. C. Beck and Peter Costanza." Premium of a fur "coon tail" for 15 cents and a Tootsie Roll wrapper. (Just the tail, not a hat.) |
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| Comic Story | By Hack (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Gus has a prisoner with a hacking cough. |
| Featuring | Gus the Guard |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Gus; Slippery Sands |
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| Comic Story | Willie the Worm at the Carnival! (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Willie disregards all signs and is punished. Sammy obeys them and is rewarded. |
| Featuring | Willie the Worm and Sammy |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Willie the Worm; Sammy |
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| Comic Story | No Fly by Night (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Joe has a tough, mean roommate at college. |
| Featuring | Joe College |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe College |
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| Text Story | Armor of Courage (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | An inexperienced sheriff must face an experienced gunman in a showdown. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tim McGrady; Tom Mawson; Bat Tollson |
| Notes | Text story with one small illustration. |
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| Comic Story | Well Named |
| Synopsis | Pattie keeps a thug from stealing money from a newsboy. |
| Featuring | Pistol Packin' Pattie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pistol Packin' Pattie |
| Notes | Art credits for this feature identified by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Serves the Stinger Right! |
| Synopsis | Hill Billy gets some satisfaction when his bees sting his mean uncle. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hill Billy |
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| Comic Story | Sheriff for Sale (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hopalong is called to Cactusville to find out why the sheriff there is so tolerant of lawbreakers. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy |
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| The Secret That Saved the Sandlot (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The local boys win a baseball game with a cross-town team and are able to keep using a lot for a playing field. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Jim Wise |
| Notes | Ad in comic form for P-F Canvas shoes. B. F. Goodrich and Hood Rubber Co. |
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| Gillette Bike Tire Facts (1 page) |
| Notes | Ad in comic form with facts about bicycles and tires. |
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| Advertisement | Build and Fly MI Models (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Illustrated ad for plans for building model planes. Cost is 25 and 50 cents each from Mechanix Illustrated, Greenwich, Conn. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for Daisy Air Rifles featuring the 1000 shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine. Also Daisy Handbook #2, available for 10 cent and one three-cent stamp. Daisy Manufacturing Co., Plymouth, Mich. |
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