Hopalong Cassidy #16

When exiled Webfoot vows vengeance against Chief Redbird and the Nojava tribe, he sets a town ablaze and frames the Nojavas for the crime—then tries to turn the townspeople against them. Hopalong Cassidy must uncover Webfoot's treachery before a massacre unfolds and innocent lives pay the price for his bitter grudge.

Hill Billy gets an unwelcome compliment from Farmer Silas—his face would make a perfect scarecrow! When Hill Billy tries to laugh it off with a joke of his own, the farmer doesn't take kindly to being the butt of the gag, and the two end up in a heated exchange about pride and manners.

When a stagecoach nearly runs down a sleeping man in the road, Hopalong springs into action—only to find himself caught up in a far graver crime when ten thousand dollars meant for the ailing Grumpy Gallin goes missing that very night. With the thief vanishing into darkness and a desperate search turning up nothing, Hopalong's sharp eye catches a detail that unravels the entire scheme and brings the culprit to justice.

Whitey Whiskers spins a tall tale for Daniel Boone, Jr. about the time he encountered a wolf in the frozen woods during a hunting trip—and how a series of mishaps led to an encounter with fangs that wouldn't stay intact. This humorous frontier yarn unfolds through flashback, loaded with the kind of over-the-top logic that makes Western tall tales so entertaining.

Pattie sizes up Slippery Mike's claim to honesty with a healthy dose of skepticism in this quick-witted western humor piece. When Mike insists he's turned over a new leaf and ditched a crooked business deal, Pattie's pointed follow-up question cuts straight to what really matters—and the punchline lands hard on a crook's true colors.

When the notorious outlaw Two-Gun Gale rolls into Twin River, Hopalong Cassidy and his deputy Mesquite find themselves caught in a web of mistaken identity—all because of a particularly pungent bottle of perfume. After a stagecoach robbery leaves the town demanding justice, the finger of suspicion points squarely at Mesquite, and it'll take Hopalong's sharp detective work to prove his deputy's innocence and unmask the real culprit.

A collection of quick-fire jokes set at the racetrack and a newspaper office, featuring the wit and wordplay that Hopalong Cassidy fans know and love. These one-liners about a particularly slow horse, an ambitious would-be reporter named Colonel Corn, and his editor Korny Kobb deliver the kind of groan-worthy puns and sight gags that make this 1948 humor piece a lighthearted romp.

Hopalong Cassidy pursues the notorious Bredd Brothers bandits across the hills, managing to capture one—but his scheme backfires when the free brother seizes the opportunity to kidnap Mesquite as leverage for a trade. Now Hopalong faces an impossible choice: free a dangerous outlaw to save his friend, or let Mesquite's fate hang in the balance. With quick thinking and nerve, Cassidy sets a trap at the exchange that turns the tables on the brothers in ways they never saw coming.