Monte Hale Western #61

(June 1951)

Kids! See New "Come To Life" Pictures... (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

View-Master / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Danger in the Deep! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Royal Crown Cola / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Owl Creek Holdup! (Table of Contents: 3)

Monte Hale / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Edmond Good

Inks

Edmond Good

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Sheriff Ray Evans

Synopsis

Coach after coach limped back into town with tales of having been ambushed and robbed on Owl Creek Bridge.

Indexer Notes

Edmond Good is best spotted by his quite rounded faces with very visible eyes and lively layout with much movement.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Bellhop Beltram / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Howdy, Beltram...

Genre

humor; western-frontier

Characters

Bellhop Beltram

Now You Can Get Monte Hale Western Each Month, By Mail (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Monte Hale Western / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Forest Ally (Table of Contents: 6)

A Gray Hawk Story / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Dick Kraus (signed)

Pencils

?

Inks

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Gray Hawk; Swift Deer

Gains Fame in Race With Flame (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

"P-F" Canvas Shoes / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Neatly Done! (Table of Contents: 8)

Bronko Betsy / comic story / 0.66 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

?

Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

humor; western-frontier

Characters

Bronko Betsy

Reprints

• in Captain Marvel Jr. (L. Miller & Son, 1950 series) #67 ([1951])

New! New! New! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Pinhead and Foodini / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.34 page (report information)

The Flying Foe (Table of Contents: 10)

Gabby hayes / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Leonard Frank

Inks

Leonard Frank

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Gabby Hayes; Corker (horse)

Synopsis

Gabby enters a horse race while chasing a fly.

Indexer 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.

Picture Rings (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Kellogg's Pep / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

By Cracky! (Table of Contents: 12)

Old Slick / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

?

Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

humor; western-frontier

Characters

Old Slick; Hiram Peste

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Ranch Owner Owen / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

(Gulp) Someone's been in my smokehouse...

Genre

humor; western-frontier

Characters

Owen; Sharky

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

Blunt Bolyn / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey Bolyn, come hyar a second!

Genre

humor; western-frontier

Characters

Blunt Bolyn

The Chuck Wagon Coyote (Table of Contents: 15)

Monte Hale / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Carl Pfeufer ?

Inks

John Jordan ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Monte Hale; Pardner (horse); Sourdough; Buck (crooked cook)

Synopsis

No one wanted to take the place of the missing cook but Monte.

Indexer 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.

Killer of the Caribees (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Arch-Gard / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Fortunes Told Here (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Identification Bracelet! (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

Smith Brothers Cough Drops / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Announcing (Table of Contents: 19) (Expand) /

Daisy Air Rifles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)