Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books 1952

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Volunteer firefighters Gabby and Blaze Burns argue over who should be in charge of the fire brigade, causing chaos when there's a fire. While escorting a tribal totem, Gabby is attacked by fur trader Squinty, who wants the territory for himself. Gabby tries to invent the food truck 100 years early. Plus a vintage Christmas-themed ad for Roadmaster bikes ("the bicycle with bumpers"). Favorite line this issue: "It's got a flapjack flipper, a doughnut dunker, icebox, stove, and everything - all invented by me!" The Fire Fighters; Chief Gray Matter; Loco Lew; The Evil Weevil; Gabby Hayes Totes a Totem; Young Falcon: The Stolen Stallions; The Chuck Wagon. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Grizzled old Gabby thinks he's seen everything, but "prairie pirates," riding a pirate ship on wheels across the desert, is a new one even for him. To capture rustlers, Gabby must enter the bullfighting ring, but the bulls aren't ready for Gabby Hayes. An outlaw uses trained mosquitoes as accomplices to his crimes. Plus a vintage Christmas-themed ad for Roadmaster bikes ("the bicycle with bumpers"). Favorite line this issue: "A man of my standing takes no lip, yuh sea-going coyote!" The Prairie Pirate!; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: The Imposter; The Battle of the Bull Ring; Sneaky Rustler; Loco Lew; The Buzzing Bandit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. To tackle rustlers, Gabby uses a new invention, the rubber lasso, after accidentally putting on a dress. When Gabby is up to his neck in trouble, Tippy's ventriloquism lessons come in handy. Gabby tries to keep Miss Ellie from being swept off her feet by the visiting actor and ladies' man Hartley Braker. Favorite line this issue: "What's that thing heading for us? Looks like a flying bearded lady!" The Rubber Lasso; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: The Tired Trappers; The Talking Duck; Loco Lew; Tar and Feathers; The Rich Town!; The Bad Actor. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Unknown to Gabby, the new carnival in town is run by an old enemy, who sends his carnies after Gabby. After Gabby accidentally gets a perm, he tries to hide from the other cowpokes, and winds up discovering a beehive the hard way. Gabby accidentally finds the horse thieves' secret escape route when he falls in the well. Favorite line this issue: "When he tries the games we'll make him look sillier than a one-legged coyote!" The Merry-Go-Roundup; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: Guide to Death; Busy as a Bee; Abdul the Bull-Bull; Chief Gray Matter; The Low-Down Horse Thieves. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby discovers a sea monster in Massacre Lake - or is it just a plot by Fish Head Pike to get the lake's fishing for himself? To race Moose Mustard and his brothers to a land claim, Gabby harnesses two actual moose to his sled. Gabby tries to live off the land, to prove he's a true frontiersman. Favorite line this issue: "What a dee-lishus odor of vittles! Reckon my mind is cracking under the strain!" The Monster of Massacre Lake; Laughing Boy; Young Falcon: The Legend of the Winged Beast; The Land Rush; Bronko Betsy; Chief Gray Matter; Nitro Nick; Loco Lew; Crafty Woodcraft! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby takes exception when Bill Board plasters his advertising signs all over the West, obscuring the natural views. Outlaws swindle food from Aunt Hester by pretending to be injured in her boarding house. British landowner Sir Loinstake, who looks like Charlie McCarthy come to life, takes exception to Gabby and his uncouth ways. Favorite line this issue: "Bill Board is a spry young hustler, while Gabby creaks in so many joints he sounds like a rusty gate when he bends over!" Gabby Hayes Wins His Spurs; Gopherface; Young Falcon: The Tumbleweed of Death; Bearded Baby; Diggem the Dentist; Chief Gray Matter; Hoghead Harry; Vittles for Villains; Loco Lew; Sagebrush; A Battle Royal. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Hunter Buffalo Hyde wants to slaughter the buffalo belonging to the Blackfeet tribe, but the tribe has just made Gabby an official member, and he takes exception. A Grinch-like outlaw steals the toys of every kid in town...but why? When Gabby takes a side-job driving a nitroglycerine wagon, an explosion is inevitable. Favorite line this issue: "I'll try to be a brave brave!" The Blundering Herd; Chief Gray Matter; Masked Menace; The Toy Bandit; Young Falcon: The Friends of Evil; Danger: Explosives! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby wants to know why outlaw Buck Mustang wants the carpet Gabby bought for Aunt Hester. Gabby meets a South American cowboy who tells even bigger lies than Gabby does. Frustrated with the lack of good help, Gabby opens a college for cowboys. Favorite line this issue: "Men? What men? Why, we haven't got an hombre on the whole spread who could stop a rustler with a cannon ball!" The Magic Carpet; Loco Lew; Gold Rushers; The Gaucho of the Prairies; Silly Sills; Young Falcon: The Men of Many People!; Chief Gray Matter; Cowboy College. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Spurned and humiliated by Miss Ellie, feed-store owner Al Falfa decides to get even by selling her poisoned grain for her cattle. Gabby enters a music contest, and music will never be the same. When miner Hard Rock Shale is trapped in an abandoned mine, Gabby sets out to rescue him, but the inept Bungle Lowe wants to make sure he gets Shale's claim all to himself. Favorite line this issue: "My poor ears! Gabby may be a good conductor - but only on a trolley!" Wild Oats!; Loco Lew; Money Maker; Gabby Hayes Beats the Band; Glib Gibbons; Young Falcon: The Banker's Watch!; Chief Gray Matter; Gabby Hayes Battles a Bungler. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby plans to defeat bandits by concealing gold in wagon wheels, but the bandits have an insider who hears the scheme. Outlaw Pesty Buggs has figured out how to control hordes of locusts, and uses them to threaten ranchers and farmers. Gabby Hayes becomes a tax collector, and his first task is to get payment from the miserly Abel. Favorite line this issue: "I'll show yuh a plump easy solution to the sitchyation!" Golden Wheels; Tenderfoot Treasure; The Locust Roundup; The Tough Hombre; Hank and Buster; Young Falcon: Cunning Death; Chief Gray Matter; Gabby Hayes Becomes a Tax Collector. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Miss Ellie's corpulent cousin Eaton Grubb visits, and threatens to eat all the food in the rooming house. Outlaw Rusty Gates is preventing Buffalo Dam from being built, and Gabby wants to know why. Gabby sets out to reform professional loafer Slowpoke Amble, only to find people liked him better the way he was. Favorite line this issue: "Get smart, pard! Pull yore stakes and drift, afore I get riled!" The King of the Gluttons!; Cowboy Cal; Slumberjack; Battle for Buffalo Dam!; Young Falcon: Floodtide!; Chief Gray Matter; The Slowpoke Cowpoke. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. What better way to best the outlaw called Pop Corn than by using the smell of popcorn itself? Gabby's horse Corker, in many ways the brains of the team, is hypnotized by the mesmerist Evil Eye Blink. When a shipment of sports equipment comes through town, Gabby winds up using tennis rackets and golf clubs to take on outlaw Hot Lead McNasty. Favorite line this issue: "Seems I stepped on yore corn, Corn! Now to bop yuh on the jaw, Pop!" Popping Trouble; Loonie Les; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: Killer at the Hunt!; Hammer Head; Loco Lew; Corker, the Outlaw; Snow Fun; Lil Buck; Cactus Brain; Sports Champion. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.