| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Introducing Monte Hale |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse) |
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| Advertisement | Build and Fly MI Models (1 page) |
| Featuring | Mechanix Illustrated |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Contents | Contents Monte Hale (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse) |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost Town (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Monte Hale enters a ghost town and encounters ghosts able to handle six-guns and set off dynamite blasts. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Sourdough Simms (prospector); Carson (villain); Blackie (villain) |
| Notes | The art here is identical to the Mix story in Western Hero #105 credited in the GCD to Pfeufer. Pfeufer also did work on Don Winslow Comics, and the faces and inking is similar. |
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| Advertisement | Ralph Kiner (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Wheaties, the breakfast of champions with milk and fruit. |
| Featuring | Wheaties |
| Content | Characters: Ralph Kiner (baseballplayer) |
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| Comic Story | Smart like a Fox (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Big Bow and Little Arrow |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Big Bow; Little Arrow; Pale Face (game warden) |
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| Comic Story | Railroad Ruckus (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Someone on the inside are wrecking and dynamiting the railroad. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); J.B Benson (railroad owner); Tom Coyle (villain) |
| Notes | Art similar to the first story. |
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| Advertisement | The Man with the Purple Hand (1 page) |
| Featuring | Adventures of Sam Spade |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Sam Spade |
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| Comic Story | Monte's Double (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mistaken for a hated outlaw, Monte Hale is on the verge of being hung by a mob. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Wichita (outlaw); Sheriff Flint Daly |
| Notes | Same artist as on the other stories. |
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| Comic Story | New News |
| Featuring | Cactus Brain |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Cactus Brain (cowboy) |
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| Comic Story | Sling Away |
| Synopsis | Li'l Buck wants to buy garters for a sling shot |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Li'l Buck |
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| Text Story | The Raiders (2 pages) |
| Featuring | A Son of the Chief Story |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gray Eagle (Otapi Chief); Gray Hawk (son of chief); Little Fox |
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| Comic Story | Makes His Point |
| Synopsis | To play a harp makes you a harpoonist. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Li'l Buck |
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| Comic Story | Informed |
| Featuring | Cactus Brain |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Cactus Brain (cowboy) |
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| Comic Story | Right Makes Might (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Whitey Whiskers and Daniel Boone Jr. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Whitey Whiskers; Daniel Boone Jr.; Gruffy |
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| Featuring | Quiz! |
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| Publisher advertisement | Comix Cards |
| Synopsis | Comix cards appear every month in Monte Hale and Ozzie & Babs Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Ozzie; Babs |
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| Comic Story | Trail-Blazers Showdown (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Landgrabbers are trying to drive the new settlers off their new land. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Mrs. Brown; bart Denton (landgrabber); |
| Notes | Same artist as on the other stories. |
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| Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Coon Tail Charlie |
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| Advertisement | Old Sweet Songs... (1 page) |
| Featuring | Kodak Film |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
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| Advertisement | Stan Musial (1 page) |
| Featuring | Winthrop Shoes |
| Content | Characters: Stan Musial (baseball player) |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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