| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Monte Hale Discovers The Grim, Foreboding Secret Of Lost Mesa! |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photography) | Inks:? (photography) | Colors:? (photography) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse) |
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| Comic Story | The Hit and Run Raiders (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bankrobbers deliberately run down a kid after a hold-up, and Monty has to bring him to the hospital in Grand City. It is a race against time. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Buzzard Brinkley (bankrobber); Cyrus Smith; Doctor Purdy |
| Notes | Good is best spotted by his quite rounded faces with very visible eyes and lively layout with much movement. |
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| Comic Story | Reading, Riting, & Rustling (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gabby catch a rustler hiding in a schoolhouse, |
| Featuring | Gabby Hayes |
| Credits | Pencils: Leonard Frank | Inks: Leonard Frank |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gabby Hayes; Corker (horse); Shorty (rustler) |
| Notes | Frank has some peculiar faces with long eyebrows, wrinkling nose, very small round mouths and folds in clothing that are very scribbly with many short lines, as if there is nobody inside. |
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| Comic Story | Short Cut to Danger (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Monte gets on slippery ice when escorting a tenderfoot through the Rockies. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer? | Inks: John Jordan? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); A.C. Tuttle (vaudeville manager); Jud Warble (tenderfoot cowboy) |
| Notes | The artwork is very similar to Pfeufer's Tom Mix stories, movement, gunsmoke with hole in the middle, tight jeans with few wrinkles.
The inking is much like Jordan on "The Cadet" in Target Comics #8, 1943. |
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| Comic Story | The Killers of Pothole Canyon (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pothole Canyon was an impregnable outlaw fortress manned by Gopher Graham and his crew of ruthless gunmen. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer? | Inks: John Jordan? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Clay (trader); Gopher Graham (outlaw) |
| Notes | Same uncertain notes as for the "Shortcut to Danger" story. |
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| Comic Story | Joke |
| Featuring | Riddling Rodney |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Text Article | Strawberry Roan (1 page) |
| Featuring | Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Text Story | The Ambush! (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Gray Hawk |
| Credits | Script: Dick Kraus | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | Jail (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Hill & Billy |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | The Secret of Lost Mesa (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | What was the sinister mystery that made the Indians hold Lost Mesa in such fearful dread? |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Faro Logan (gambler); Muley (prospector) |
| Notes | Good uses round faces with lively eyes, and they are here. |
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