Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books

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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 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.

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Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby investigates after a "caveman," apparently awakened from a desert cave, speaks English and robs unwary travelers. The Musketeers of the West realize that someone is selling bad ammunition to the wagon trains. Gabby inherits a ghost town called Dry Skull, only to find it inhabited by three fugitive gunslingers. Favorite line this issue: "Ain't no caveman hereabouts! And iffen thar wuz, I'd tie the galoot in knots!" Chief Gray Matter; Gabby Hayes and the Caveman; Gabby Hayes and His Dark Secret; Musketeers of the West: Armed for Death; Buck Desmond: Poison Creek; Gabby Hayes and His Ghost Town; Loco Lew. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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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Stories and art by Art Helfant and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Hester shaves off Gabby's beard while he's sleeping, and now the townspeople think he's a Gabby Hayes impostor. Gabby enters the trick-riding contest on Suicide Cliff. Gabby's attempt to capture gambler Pokerface aboard a riverboat is stymied when Gabby gets a pool ball stuck in his mouth. Favorite line this issue: "He's the only idjit in the world that ever ate liver with strawberries!" Chief Gray Matter; Delilah; The Flaming Phantom Horseman; Young Falcon: Sweet Justice!; Buck Desmond: Desert Showdown; Rampage on the River!; Musketeers of the West: Gambling with Death!; Tightwad Tad; Rubbernose Randolph. 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 outlaw Soapy Kake steals a wagonful of soap from under the nose of a sleeping Gabby, Gabby must give chase. Gabby helps the kids build a fort for their club, but then outlaws seize it as a hide-out. Gabby's latest foe is Beaver Ben, who can bite through anything with his beaver-like teeth. Favorite line this issue: "I'll be hornswoggled! The ole galoot is sound asleep!" Chief Gray Matter; Loco Lew; The Soap Thieves; Young Falcon: The Death Trap; Buck Desmond: Paydirt Surprise; The Hide-Out; Beaver Ben, the Biting Bandit. 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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The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. When the Peppermint Kid terrorizes the West, private eye Bighorn Bill uses his oversized nose to track the minty-fresh felon. An elephant escaped from the circus takes a shine to Gabby and follows him home, which comes in handy when the dam is ready to collapse. Gabby offers to help the town doctor track down his lost medical supplies. Favorite line this issue: "I ain't just a private eye! I'm a private nose!" Chief Gray Matter; The Bloodhound of the West!; Young Falcon: The Winner; Buck Desmond: The Shawnee Test!; Jumbo Runs Wild!; Medicine Man; Loco Lew. 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. An outlaw uses strong-arm tactics on voters when he tries to get elected sheriff of Rawhide. Female outlaw Sagebrush Sal is terrorizing the town, so Gabby volunteers to tame her spirit by wooing her. Gabby convinces his fellow cowpokes to clean up real nice for a visiting singing star, but that backfires in a major way. Favorite line this issue: "Females jest eat out of my hands! I reckon it's my good looks that wins 'em!" Bullets for Ballots; Barkley the Businessman; Chief Grey Matter; The Courtship of Sagebrush Sal!; The Fashion Plate; Handy and Bandy; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: A Good Turn Repaid; Buck Desmond: Voice in the Night; Go Fly a Kite!; Gabby Hayes Crossword Puzzle. 48 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 fights to save stray steers from greedy ranchers, but he gets rounded up and faces the rustler's brand himself. Gabby tells Tippy his own version of "The Tortoise and the Hare," and how he battled the bandit El Gringo. Gabby doesn't know that the old coin he inherited is worth a fortune, but the outlaws trailing him do. Favorite line this issue: "I'm so busted I had to buy this mousetrap on credit!" Gabby Hayes and the Tortoise and the Hair; Loco Lew; Gabby Hayes and the Inheritance; Buck Desmond: Silent Witnesses; Sheriff Shays; Bandy and Randy; Mule Train; Bronko Betsy. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby's mission to bring some lumber to town puts him square against evil lumberjack Splinters McSaw. To capture the outlaw Tricky Trio, Gabby joins forces with a medicine-show salesman who makes trick hats. Gabby dares to enter Monster Valley, a legendary refuge for Gila monsters. Plus a vintage Carnation milk ad featuring cowboy Rocky Lane, and a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves Little Sally, with art by Bill Schreiber. Favorite line this issue: "Yo're the town's greediest money-grubber! Yuh pinch pennies so hard they squeak!" Loco Logging; Loco Lew; Frame-Up Victim; The Mad Hatter!; Gabby Hayes Masters the Monsters; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: The giant of the Hills; The Reluctant Beau. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. When Tubby Swift uses an iceboat to pull off winter robberies, Gabby teaches Corker the horse to ice-skate in pursuit. Wing Ears Whalen uses his oversized ears to crack the bank's safe and frame Bart for the crime. Gabby is afraid of losing his meal ticket when Aunt Hester starts dating the sheriff. Plus a vintage ad for View-Master, featuring Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid and Pancho. Favorite line this issue: "If yuh had half of Corker's hoss sense yuh wouldn't make such insulting remarks about a geen-yus!" Chief Walking Box; Young Falcon: Race of Death!: Buck Desmond: Jammers Showdown; Loco Lew; The Skating Horse; The Flat; The Listening Looter; The Turkey Trot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank 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 matches wits with the stagecoach robber called the Falcon, who has trained birds of prey. A jewel thief hides the Richbilt Necklace in Gabby's marble bag, right before the big marble tournament. A snake-oil salesman tricks Gabby into selling phony hair tonic, but when the tonic actually causes baldness, Gabby is on the hook. Favorite line this issue: "No need to be bald! My tonic will grow hair on a billiard ball!" Gabby Hayes Defies the Falcon!; Quiz; Young Falcon: The Silver Slaves; Porky and Pine; The Marble Champ; Boxcar Benny; Buck Desmond: Giveaway Silver; A Hair-Raising Tale!; Chief Gray Matter. 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. A tornado in the desert reveals a lost city filled with treasure, but Dandy Ruff wants to get rid of Gabby and keep the treasure for himself. Gabby tries to save a wild mustang herd from Mustang Mike, who wants to make them into horsemeat. Gabby protects a new arrival from Scotland, whose strange dress and ways make him the object of attacks by the local cowfolk. Plus a vintage ad for Walt Disney mini-comics in exchange for Wheaties box tops. Favorite line this issue: "Jehoshaphat! If that stubborn tenderfoot keeps his kilts, he'll be kilt!" The City Under Sand; Loco Lew; Young Falcon and the Hunter's Creed; Chief Gray Matter; The Wild Horse Round-Up!; In the Soup; Gabby Hayes and the Fighting Tenderfoot. 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. 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 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.

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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.

Stories and art by Frank Bolle and Leon Winik. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby matches wits and fists with Porcupine Quill, the human porcupine, years before a similar villain appeared in Marvel comics. Trapped by bad guys in a cabin set on fire, Gabby is saved when a squirrel bites through the ropes tying his hands together. (Shades of Squirrel Girl!) Favorite line this issue: "Good work, Bushy! I'll train you to be the smartest squirrel in the world!" Ten-Gallon Allen; Gabby Hayes Dunks a Rustler; Buck Desmond: Big Top Fracas; Young Falcon: The Feathers; Wagonwheels; The Loco Photo; The Human Porcupine. 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.