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Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books

  • Issue #2
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 2

    The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby pursues the mountain lions that are taking the Bar O Ranch cattle, and winds up in the lions' den, wearing only his union suit. Gabby witnesses a murder at the rodeo, and the only clue is an IOU he finds in the dead man's hand. Four-Gun Fitts is such a good gunslinger, he can fire guns with his toes - which is something you just won't see in any Western movie. Fitts terrorizes the town, but he goes too far when he shoots Gabby's jug of maple syrup. Favorite line this issue: "Faster, Corker! My tonsils is achin' to embrace this tree juice!" Cactus Brain; Li'l Buck; Gabby Hayes Gets Cold Feet; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Bachelor of Science; Rolling Stone; Rodeo Champ!; Musketeers of the West; Gabby Hayes vs. Four-Gun Fitts. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 7

    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.

  • Issue #8
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 8

    The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby whittles a turkey call that is his masterpiece, but unfortunately, it also brings real buzzards that are looking for the turkey. Gambler Honest John has never lost a bet, but that may change when Gabby bets him he can ride his horse up the church steeple. Lariat, a member of the Musketeers of the West, makes a new enemy when he exposes a gambler's con game. Favorite line this issue: "What in tarnation is all this foolery?" Chief Gray Matter; His Wonderful Bird Call!; Buck Desmond: Desert Captives; Honest John's Mistake; Musketeers of the West: Gambling with Death!; The Dangerous Duke; Loco Lew. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #9
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 9

    Stories and art by Jack Binder and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. An arsonist is targeting buildings in the town of Rawhide, and he frames Gabby for his crimes. Gabby's clothes are stolen by wily coyote Lop Ear, and Gabby gives chase, wearing only his red union suit with the flap in the back. Gabby realizes that the pickpocket plaguing the town is actually the trained kangaroo of a traveling snake-oil salesman. Favorite line this issue: "Dadburn the thieving four-legged varmint! It's hoomiliating!" Tumbleweed Jr.; Wilbur the Waiter; The Frigid Firebug!; The Ornery Coyote; Young Falcon: Vindication!; Buck Desmond: Hide-Out Cabin; The Kangaroo Crook!!; Pilot Pete; Bell Bottom Bill. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 10

    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 uses a divining rod and sheer luck when the Bar Nothing Ranch needs a new water supply. Gabby gets the drop on an outlaw gang, thanks to a barrel of molasses. Gabby sets out to capture some mountain goats, and hijinks ensue. Favorite line this issue: "Just wait 'til I git muh hands on the edytor!" The Water Wizard; The Saga of Rattlehead; Buck Desmond: Tumbleweeds Return; Young Falcon: The Triple Menace; The Flapjack Story. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #13
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 13

    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.

  • Issue #14
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 14

    The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Mush Mellon, the Snow Bandit, is unstoppable until he encounters Gabby, who's been appointed a temporary mailman. Gabby enters a fishing contest, and accidentally exposes con man Finny Bass. East coast celebrity chef Fuller Grubb sets out to steal the cookbook where Aunt Hester keeps her tastiest recipes. Favorite line this issue: "You'll find it don't pay to tamper with the US mail or Gabby Hayes!" Chief Gray Matter; Loco Lew; The Mail Must Go Through!; Young Falcon: Death Across the Ice!; Buck Desmond: Mountain Storm; Fishing for Trouble; The Cook Crook! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #30
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 30

    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.

  • Issue #32
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 32

    The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby plans to hide inside a fake buffalo to enter an outlaw fortress, but things quickly spiral out of control. Scattershot Wilde, the West's worst shot, thinks he's springing outlaw Billy the Kid, not a goat with the same name. Outlaw Ben Dover realizes he gets free room and board if he just stays in the town jail. Favorite line this issue: "I'd never give the Kid to a mule-eared, dog-faced, bird-brained idjit like you!" The Trojan Buffalo; Diamond Robber; Young Falcon: The False One; Loco Lew ; Chief Gray Matter; Gabby Hayes Meets Billy the Kid; The Hoosegow Squatter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #54
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 54
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    Stories and art by Mell Lazarus, Jack Sparling, Fran Matera, Donald George, Clint Harmon and Art Helfant. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby unwittingly employs rattlesnakes to rout bandits from a cliff settlement. 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. Plus Li'l Fish, an early cartoon by Mell Lazarus, creator of the Momma and Miss Peach comic strips. And true facts about cowboys. Favorite line this issue: "I'll be hornswoggled! This hombre must be plumb loco!" About Cowboys; The Cliff Bandits; Li'l Fish; At the Drop of a Hat; Musketeers of the West: Dangerous Passage; The Stolen Snapshot; Prospector Pete; Soups On or Pass the Biscuits Before They're All Gone; Oldtimer Yarn; About Horses. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #57
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 57
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    Cover by Charles Nicholas, Jack Sparling and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Bill Alexander. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Wicked Willie and Sinful Sid use ventriloquism to make Gabby Hayes think his horse can talk, but when the Wells Fargo is robbed, things quickly get out of hand. Gabby Hayes loses his hearing after being thrown into a trough by a bucking bronco, and an outlaw mistakes him for the town doctor. Favorite line this issue: "If you harm a hair of Corker's mane, I'll fling you from here to the Rio Grande!' Cactus Brain; Right From The Horse's Mouth; Hill Billy; Oh! Doctor!; The Red Bandana; Whitey Whiskers; Trail of the Whisperer; Tommy and Tammy; Lil' Buck. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.