(July 1950)
Fawcett,
1948 Series
- Volume
- 9
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fawcett Publication
- Editing
- B. J. Hayman
The Hit and Run Raiders
Monte Hale / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Buzzard Brinkley (bankrobber); Cyrus Smith; Doctor Purdy
- 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.
Indexer Notes
Good is best spotted by his quite rounded faces with very visible eyes and lively layout with much movement.
Reading, Riting, & Rustling
Gabby Hayes / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gabby Hayes; Corker (horse); Shorty (rustler)
- Synopsis
- Gabby catch a rustler hiding in a schoolhouse,
Indexer 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.
Short Cut to Danger
Monte Hale / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); A.C. Tuttle (vaudeville manager); Jud Warble (tenderfoot cowboy)
- Synopsis
- Monte gets on slippery ice when escorting a tenderfoot through the Rockies.
Indexer 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.
The Killers of Pothole Canyon
Monte Hale / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Clay (trader); Gopher Graham (outlaw)
- Synopsis
- Pothole Canyon was an impregnable outlaw fortress manned by Gopher Graham and his crew of ruthless gunmen.
Indexer Notes
Same uncertain notes as for the "Shortcut to Danger" story.
The Secret of Lost Mesa
Monte Hale / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Faro Logan (gambler); Muley (prospector)
- Synopsis
- What was the sinister mystery that made the Indians hold Lost Mesa in such fearful dread?
Indexer Notes
Good uses round faces with lively eyes, and they are here.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Monte Hale Discovers The Grim, Foreboding Secret Of Lost Mesa!
Monte Hale -
1.
The Hit and Run Raiders
Monte Hale -
2.
Reading, Riting, & Rustling
Gabby Hayes -
3.
Short Cut to Danger
Monte Hale -
4.
The Killers of Pothole Canyon
Monte Hale -
5.
Joke
Riddling Rodney -
6.
Strawberry Roan
Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs -
7.
The Ambush!
Gray Hawk -
8.
[Jail]
Hill & Billy -
9.
The Secret of Lost Mesa
Monte Hale
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Rodney Hinkle
- Roger Reus
- Tony R. Rose
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.