Monte Hale started his movie career at Republic Pictures in April 1946 with “Home On the Range”. PICTURE NEWS #8, adapted the film into comic form, but no other Hale stories were published until the popular Fawcett company began publishing MONTE HALE WESTERN with issue #29. It was the first Monte Hale comic, but Fawcett picked up the numbering sequence from the recently canceled MARY MARVEL Comics. The Fawcett issues had beautiful photo covers Initially. Carl Pfeufer, best known for his exciting work on Fawcett’s TOM MIX, drew Monte’s stories with an inking assist from John Jordan. The series lasted until issue #82. Charlton then published six issues, but they were reprints of the Fawcett issues. This book was compiled with the best images currently available. That stated, these comics are seventy years old. The best efforts have been made to make the pages as enjoyable as possible but not every panel is perfect and some allowances for the age of the books need to be considered when judging the overall contents.