Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books

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Stories and art by Jack Sparling and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby wants the reward for capturing an elephant who escaped from the circus, but all he does is enrage the elephant. Gabby discovers that an eccentric local artist is being swindled by phony miners who claim to be on the verge of a silver strike. A photo contest leads to Gabby, wearing a dress and bonnet, wrestling a bear, while being pursued by a promoter who thinks he's a bearded lady. Favorite line this issue: "I'll be hornswoggled! This hombre must be plumb loco!" Chief Gray Matter; The Stalking Terror; Cattle Stampede; The Palomino Colt; Musketeers of the West: Dangerous Passage; The Stolen Snapshot; The Whirlwind Wallop; Loco Lew. 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. When Corker the horse witnesses a man taken captive, he acts crazily, in an attempt to alert Gabby to the situation. When a gigantic lumberjack goes on a rampage in town, Gabby is elected to deal with him. Corker is mistaken for a rodeo trick-riding horse. Favorite line this issue: "Dingbust it! Yuh don't need bullets! Yuh need brains!" Chief Gray Matter; Loco Lew; Corker Goes Loco; Young Falcon: The Eagle's Nest; Buck Desmond: Bushwhacker; Paul's Bunion; Tricked! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by George Marko and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Folks gather from miles around to see a living caveman discovered in the mountains, but Gabby isn't convinced. Gabby tries to get the goods on crooked boxing promoter Slick Gargoyle, and winds up in the boxing ring, with his hands coated in solid concrete. Elitist big-game hunter Otis Q. Coleslaw sets out to bag the legendary moose Big Bill, but a humiliated Gabby vows revenge. Favorite line this issue: "Ain't no cave critter here! I knew that palaver was all hogwash! The idea is plumb ridickerlus!" Whipper-Snappers; The Cave Man; Young Falcon: The Swindlers; Gabby Hayes Kayoes the Champ; Buck Desmond: Mountain Blindness; The Big Game Hunt; Dopey Danny Dee. 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. Gabby wants to know why the Headless Horseman is warning folks to stay away from River Valley. When Heartless McGue and his gang kidnap Tippy, Gabby tracks them to their mountaintop hideout. Gabby and Bullfrog Banks compete to capture the elusive white antelope,and the favor of the Antelope tribe. Favorite line this issue: "Skeedaddle, yuh consarned haint! I ain't handing over my be-ootiful haid to a hombre who ain't got a haid of his own!" Chief Gray Matter; The Headless Horseman; Western Quiz; Young Falcon: The Strange Sleep!; Gunsmoke at Eagle Rock; Buck Desmond: Lobo Killer; The White Antelope; Loco Lew. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Frank Bolle and Rod Reed. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. In a three-part story, Gabby fool-heartedly goes after the Night Riders, masked gunmen who wear black and strike only after dark. But one of the Riders is secretly the town baker, who plots to get rid of Gabby with poisoned pies. Only he didn't reckon on Aunt Hester's jealousy. Pistol Packing Pattie sharpens her wit on the town layabout. Favorite line this issue: "By the ghost of Casey Jones! Someone's got to stop those cussed Night Riders before they own the whole west!" Gabby Hayes Battles the Night Riders, Chapter One: The Terrible Trio; Sagebrush; Buck Desmond: Big Top Fracas; Quiz; Young Falcon: The Great Stallion; Pistol Packing Pattie; Chief Gray Matter; Chapter Two: A Half-Baked Hero; Mustang Mack; Accompanist Ackley; The Human Porcupine; Bing: Sleepy Time; Loco Lew; Chapter Three: Dynamite Doom. 48 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. 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.

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The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby builds a self-driving lawnmower a century and a half early, but soon it's developed a mind of its own. Gabby sets out to expose land fraud in the local newspaper, but gets his beard stuck in the typewriter. Plus an educational strip featuring gun safety tips for young people. Favorite line this issue: "Tarnation! Dingbust this fool contrapshun! It's plumb trapped my whiskers!" Car Crazy!; Gabby Hayes Mows Them Down; Loco Lew; Gun Hints; Young Falcon: The Seller of Death; The Headline Hunter; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Swami; Smokey Joe; King of the Peaks; Sports Champion. Final issue published by Fawcett; Charlton resumed publishing two years later with issue #51. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Clint Harmon and others. 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!" Doc Holliday, the Fast Draw Dentist; Golden Wheels; Happy Homer; Tenderfoot Treasure; The Locust Roundup; Western Wonders; 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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Stories and art by Dick Giordano and Art Helfant The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby's famously smart horse Corker gets a job in the circus, making Gabby wonder if he'll ever see his faithful horse again. Gabby fool-heartedly goes after the Night Riders, masked gunmen who wear black and strike only after dark. But one of the Riders is secretly the town baker, who plots to get rid of Gabby with poisoned pies. Only he didn't reckon on Aunt Hester's jealousy. Favorite line this issue: "Look, there's Gabby Hayes twice! Call the sheriff! Or the doctor! I'm seein' double!" Wagon Wheels; Double Identity!; Corker in the Circus; Colonel Ulysses; Gabby Hayes Battles the Night Riders; The Oldster!; Whitey Whiskers; Sagebrush. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.