| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Owl Creek Holdup |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse) |
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| Advertisement | Kids! See New "Come To Life" Pictures... (1 page) |
| Synopsis | View-Mater color pictures in three dimensions. |
| Featuring | View-Master |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Roy Rogers; Cisco Kid; Gene Autry |
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| Advertisement | Danger in the Deep! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "R.C." and Quickie are spear fishing in dangerous waters. |
| Featuring | Royal Crown Cola |
| Content | Characters: "R.C."; Quickie |
| Notes | Comic strip with Royal Crown Cola. |
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| Comic Story | The Owl Creek Holdup! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Coach after coach limped back into town with tales of having been ambushed and robbed on Owl Creek Bridge. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Edmond Good | Inks: Edmond Good |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Sheriff Ray Evans |
| 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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| Featuring | Bellhop Beltram |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Bellhop Beltram |
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| Publisher advertisement | Now You Can Get Monte Hale Western Each Month, By Mail |
| Featuring | Monte Hale Western |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Text Story | Forest Ally (2 pages) |
| Featuring | A Gray Hawk Story |
| Credits | Script: Dick Kraus (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gray Hawk; Swift Deer |
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| Advertisement | Gains Fame in Race With Flame (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Another Jim Wise "P-F" Adventure Story. |
| Featuring | "P-F" Canvas Shoes |
| Content | Characters: Jim Wise; Bob |
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| Comic Story | Neatly Done! |
| Featuring | Bronko Betsy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Bronko Betsy |
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| Publisher advertisement | New! New! New! |
| Synopsis | From television into a comic magazine. |
| Featuring | Pinhead and Foodini |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pinhead; Foodini |
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| Comic Story | The Flying Foe (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Gabby enters a horse race while chasing a fly. |
| Featuring | Gabby hayes |
| Credits | Pencils: Leonard Frank | Inks: Leonard Frank |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Gabby Hayes; Corker (horse) |
| Notes | Frank has some peculiar faces with long eyebrows, wrinkling noses and 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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| Advertisement | Picture Rings (1 page) |
| Synopsis | One ring in every box of Kellogg's Pep. |
| Featuring | Kellogg's Pep |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | By Cracky! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Old Slick |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Old Slick; Hiram Peste |
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| Featuring | Ranch Owner Owen |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Owen; Sharky |
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| Featuring | Blunt Bolyn |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Blunt Bolyn |
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| Comic Story | The Chuck Wagon Coyote (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | No one wanted to take the place of the missing cook but Monte. |
| Featuring | Monte Hale |
| Credits | Pencils: Carl Pfeufer? | Inks: John Jordan? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Sourdough; Buck (crooked cook) |
| Notes | The artwork has a bit of similarity 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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| Advertisement | Killer of the Caribees (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Two young adventurers are sailing around the world. |
| Featuring | Arch-Gard |
| Content | Characters: Red; Archy |
| Notes | Guard your feet with Arch-Gard by Ball Band. |
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| Advertisement | Fortunes Told Here |
| Featuring | Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum |
| Credits | Pencils: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) | Inks: Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed) |
| Content | Characters: Swami Pud |
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| Advertisement | Identification Bracelet! |
| Synopsis | Bracelet with your own name and birthstone. |
| Featuring | Smith Brothers Cough Drops |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Advertisement | Announcing (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The new Daisy Air Rifleman book. |
| Featuring | Daisy Air Rifles |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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