Hopalong Cassidy #53 (1951) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Trouble in Triplicate!	cover	1	pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); colors: ? (photo); letters: typeset	Hopalong Cassidy (photograph of William Boyd); Topper (horse)
1	-	blank page(s)	1
2	Trouble in Triplicate	comic story	10	pencils: Joe Certa; inks: Joe Certa	Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite; Trigger Clinton (badman)
3	Gunning for Trouble	text story	2	script: Al Packer	Windy Daley (cook); Larry; Sage casey (foreman); Jed Corey (gunslinger)
5	Bright Boy Bryson	comic story	0.5		Bryson; Cranby
6	The Twin River Champion	comic story	7		Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite (deputy); Bronco Sam;
8	Quiz	activity	0.5		Dean Acheson
9	The Outrageous Coyote	comic story	4		Whitey Whiskers; Butch Browne
10	Terror at the Carnival	comic story	7	pencils: Charles Quinlan	Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite (deputy); Rube (carnival owner and smuggler); Clegg (carnival owner and smuggler)
12	Wealthy Welby	comic story	0.5		Welby; Sue
13	Big Reader!	comic story	1		Hill Billy
15	Quiz	activity	0.5		Julius Caesar
16	Dandruff Trouble!	comic story	0.66	pencils: Frank Bolle; inks: Frank Bolle	Pattie; Cooper
17	For the First Time in a Comic Magazine!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.34	pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset	Captain Video [Judd Holdren]
18	The Foreman's Hands	comic story	4		Foreman; Cook; Tim
19	The Last of the Bioux	comic story	8	pencils: Max Elkan; inks: Max Elkan	Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Running Beaver; Mesquite (deputy); Chief Toro
20	-	blank page(s)	2

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

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