Monte Hale, like Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, and Roy Rogers...
...was a "singing cowboy" who had his own comic during the 1940s and 50s.
(Ironically, Monte ended up as a co-founder and curator for the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles)
Oddly, in most of these actor-named comics, the protagonists were the actors themselves (not characters they played), even if the stories were set in the Old West!
When this tale from Fawcett's Monte Hale Western #74 (1952) was reprinted in Charlton's Monte Hale Western (1956), the newly-formed Comics Code Authority insisted on a major change...
...removing the figure of the Grim Reaper from the title page!
Charlton's editor did it on the black line plate, but didn't change the color separations, which still match the figure of the Reaper!
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