Best of the West #7

(1999)

Republic Pictures Ace Western Star - Monte Hale (Table of Contents: 1)

Monte Hale / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Characters:

Monte Hale (photo)

Synopsis:

Hale, sitting, with drawn gun pointing upward.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Publicity still.

The Mystery of Gunsmoke Pass (Table of Contents: 2)

Durango Kid / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Gardner Fox ?

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Durango Kid; Muley; Raider (horse)

Reprints:

• from Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid (Magazine Enterprises, 1949 series) #41 (October-November 1955)
• in Sheriff Classics (Windmill Comics, 2011 series) #9267 ([maart] 2017)

Laughing Boy (Table of Contents: 3)

Haunted Horseman [Ghost Rider] / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters:

Dick Ayers

Genre:

superhero; western-frontier

Characters:

Haunted Horseman [Rex Fury]; Sing Song; Bulk Walker

Reprints:

• from The Ghost Rider (Magazine Enterprises, 1950 series) #5 [A-1 #37] (1951)
• in Sheriff Classics (Windmill Comics, 2011 series) #9267 ([maart] 2017)

Indexer Notes

Ghost Rider's name relettered as the Haunted Horseman.

Showdown Street (Table of Contents: 4)

Wild Bill Hickok / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Wild Bill Hickock; Gil Burke

Reprints:

• from Cowboy Western (Charlton, 1954 series) #67 (March 1958)

Top Hat's Trouble (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carl Pfeufer

Inks:

Carl Pfeufer

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Monte Hale

Reprints:

• from Monte Hale Western (Fawcett, 1948 series) #30 (November 1948)
• in Sheriff Classics (Windmill Comics, 2011 series) #9267 ([maart] 2017)

Indexer Notes

Printed in the centerfold on orchid-colored paper that is only 8.5 inches high. Pages printed out of order in this sequence: 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 4, 7.

Attention Western Fans! Read This! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Strange Saga of the Pirate Treasure (Table of Contents: 7)

Black Diamond / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

William Overgard

Pencils:

William Overgard

Inks:

William Overgard

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Black Diamond; Bumper

Reprints:

• from Black Diamond Western (Lev Gleason, 1949 series) #23 (February 1951)

The Ghost Picture (Table of Contents: 8)

Red Mask / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Bolle (signed)

Inks:

Frank Bolle (signed)

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Redmask

Reprints:

• from Red Mask (Magazine Enterprises, 1954 series) #46 (January 1955)
• in Sheriff Classics (Windmill Comics, 2011 series) #9267 ([maart] 2017)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Writers of the West! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Bill Black (response)

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Characters:

Monte Hale (photo); Roy Rogers (photo)

Indexer Notes

Letter from Steve Ogden (Germantown, MD). Also publicity still of Roy Rogers and Monte Hale on the set of Republic's "Trail of Robin Hood" (1950).

[AC Westerns] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Frightfully Good... AC Westerns! (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

AC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)