| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | On Adventure's Trail! |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse) |
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| Captain Marvel Wrist Watch (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel |
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| Foreword/Afterword | In This Issue Monte Hale... (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale |
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| Comic Story | Guns against the Law (8.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | Monte hits his head while chasing outlaws and ends up with amnesia. He joins the gang he was pursuing but later gets his memory back and gives himself up to the sheriff. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Clark (stage driver); Spade (outlaw) |
| 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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| 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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| Advertisement | Matty Bell (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Matty Bell (football coach) |
| Notes | Wheaties, breakfast of champions with milk and fruit. |
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| Comic Story | Too Much |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Big Brad; Old Slick |
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| Comic Story | Fun-Loving Gal |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Emily; Bronko Betsy |
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| Bag of Magic Tricks (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Get Captain Tootsie's mystifying, baffling "Bag of Magic Tricks" for 25 cents. |
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| Comic Story | Gambling Girl! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Monte saves a girl from a rattlesnake. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Jinny Sears (gambling hall hostess); Belle Bayley (crooked gambling hall owner) |
| Notes | Notes on the first story apply to this one too. |
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| Sam Takes Himself for a Ride (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Sam Spade; Blackie; Effie Perine |
| Notes | One page comic strip advertising. |
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| Text Story | Forest Trail (2 pages) |
| Featuring | A Gray Hawk Adventure |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gray Hawk (son of the Otapi chief) |
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| Comic Story | Song of Montana (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The professor looks like the twin of J.C. Newton, head of the Farmers and Ranchers Bank, and a band of outlaws tries to kidnap him. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Professor Peabody; |
| Notes | Same artist as on the other stories, and notes on the first story goes here too. |
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| Advertisement | At Your Favorite retail Store |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Roy Rogers |
| Notes | Ad for Roy Rogers belts, shirts, blue jeans, cowboy boots and much more. |
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| Advertisement | It's Fun To Play Cook With "Little Dib" Appliance Toys |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Popeye |
| Notes | Toys, musical pipe and games by mail order. |
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| Comic Story | Dead Giveaway |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Bronko Betsy; Tex |
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| Comic Story | Washed Up |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Old Slick; Pete |
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| Comic Story | The Miracle Herb Cure (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Big Bow; Little Arrow; Colonel Garker |
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| Advertisement | Girls! Boys! Start Collecting These President Portraits Today! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: George Washington; Thomas Jefferson |
| Notes | Get one president in every package of Kellogg's Shredded Wheat. |
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| Comic Story | Cattle Drive! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Monte wonders why a group of ranchers are determined to drive their cattle over the high and treacherous Brazos Pass. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Grayson (outlaw) |
| Notes | Art similar to the first story, and notes on that goes for this one too. |
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| Advertisement | Given Premiums Given (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Colors:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Sell Cloverine Brand Salve and get premiums. |
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| Advertisement | Boys! Look At All The Spectacular Buzz-With-Action Models... (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Superman |
| Notes | Build action models with Erector steel girders. |
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| Advertisement | Strike or Spare...It's a Snap! (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) |
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| Advertisement | Want a Daisy for Christmas? (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: various | Inks: various | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Captain Marvel; Robotman; Da Vinci; 2-Gun Percy; Rudolph Diesel; Boy Commandos; Ibis |
| Notes | Ad for Daisy Air Rifles Catalog.
Back cover. |
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