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The comic looks good quality for its type, but I've never been able to get into the comic/movie version of Hopalong Cassidy. Somewhere I have a copy of the first 'Hopalong Cassidy' story. In it Cassidy is a very different character altogether.
[For many years Mulford was very unhappy with the way his character of Hopalong Cassidy was portrayed in the films made from his books. In the novels Cassidy is a grubby, irritable, foul-mouthed, crusty old coot; in the films he was turned into a clean-cut, articulate, courtly, distinguished-looking gentleman, as played by William Boyd. Eventually he came to terms with the disparity, and even finally decided to meet with Boyd, which he had steadfastly refused to do, and the two actually hit it off. ][He once said words to the effect that if Cassidy of the movies (an upright teetotaler who always stuck to a code of chivalry at all times) had ever strayed into the novels, the novel Cassidy's sidekicks would have shot him.]
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Link to the book: Hopalong Cassidy 64