| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Monte Meets the Minstrel Man |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale |
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| Advertisement | Shoot Safe Buddy! (1 page) |
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| Comic Story | The Verse of Death (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Monte has to find out the last verse of a song to locate a band of killers. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Minstrel Man; Sheriff; Clem Claiborne (outlaw); Ben Claiborne (outlaw) |
| Notes | Edmond Good is best spotted by his quite rounded faces with very visible eyes and lively layout with much movement. |
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| Text Story | Captive's Return (2 pages) |
| Featuring | A Gray Hawk Story |
| Credits | Script: Dick Kraus (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gray Hawk; Bad Crow; Red Snake; Colonel Forsby |
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| Advertisement | Make a Treasure Chest |
| Synopsis | How to make a treasure chest with Scotch Cellophane Tape. |
| Featuring | Scotch Cellophane Tape |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Activity | "See how many you can answer correctly" |
| Featuring | Quiz |
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| Comic Story | The Fake Brand (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gabby traces cattle rustlers to the ranch of Bigger Oaff. |
| Featuring | Gabby Hayes |
| Credits | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer | Inks: Carl Pfeufer |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gabby Hayes; Corker (horse); Bigger Oaff (rustler); Fred (cowboy) |
| Notes | This is Pfeufer's work with a little comic style, but his gunsmoke with hole in the middle and WHAM! action is evident. |
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| Text Article | Rounded up in Glory (1 page) |
| Featuring | Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs |
| Credits | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale |
| Notes | Rounded face with bright eyes are all Edmond Good. |
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| Advertisement | When It Comes To Blowing Bubbles... |
| Featuring | Fleer's Dubble Bubble |
| Credits | Pencils: Ray Thompson (signed) | Inks: Ray Thompson (signed) |
| Notes | Comic strip bubble gum adverticement. |
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| Comic Story | Big Talk! |
| Featuring | Old Slick |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Old Slick |
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| Comic Story | Monte Hale Battles the Human Fort! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Monte uses a swarm of bees to overcome an ironclad outlaw. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Script: Bill Woolfolk | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Ned Pounder [The Human Fort] (outlaw); Sheriff |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story.
Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn. |
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| Comic Story | Talented Twosome (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Moar and Les |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Moar; Les |
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| Comic Story | The Boy Editor of Faro City (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Freedom of the press in a town run by gamblers. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Script: Bill Woolfolk | Pencils: Max Elkan? | Inks: Max Elkan? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Jimmy Morgan; Hank Morgan (editor); Crooked Gambler |
| Notes | Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn. |
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| Featuring | Prankish Pat |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Prankish Pat; Jasper Busybody |
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| Synopsis | See how many you can answer correctly. |
| Featuring | Quiz |
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| Publisher advertisement | For the First Time in a Comic Magazine! |
| Featuring | Captain Video |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: captain Video |
| Notes | Photo of Al Hodge as Captain Video. |
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| Featuring | Mipps, Pipps and Twaddle |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mipps; Pipps; Twaddle |
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| Comic Story | Monte Hale Tackles the Rodeo Terror! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Baker and Morgan had two black horses and a trick chute. They always switched them so Morgan rode the easy one, and the local rider the killer. That way Baker always cleaned up on bets. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Dude Baker (crooked rodeo owner); Champ Morgan; Jigger Davis (rodeo clown) |
| Notes | Notes as for the first story. |
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| Notes | Whole back cover missing from scan. |
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