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''For the American Football player, see Howard "Hopalong" Cassady .'' Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional Cowboy -hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular Stories and later Novel s. Here the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'. Beginning in 1935, the character, played by William Boyd was transformed into the clean-cut hero of a series of 66 immensely popular films, only a few of which were based on Mulford's works, but which led, in turn, to a Comic Book series modelled after the films, and an early 1950s Television Series also starring Boyd, with numerous tie-ins. In 1950 , Hopalong Cassidy was featured on the first Lunch Box to bear an image, causing sales for Aladdin Industries to jump from 50,000 units sold the previous year to 600,000 units sold. Louis L'Amour wrote a handful of Hopalong Cassidy novels, which are still in print. In 2005, author Susie Coffman published Follow Your Stars, containing new stories starring the character. In three of these stories, Coffman has written the wife of William Boyd (actor who starred as Cassidy) into the stories. EXTERNAL LINKS
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