Western Hero (1949) comic books 1949

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Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Stan Campbell, John Jordan, and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. When counterfeit bills flood the West, the Treasury Department asks Hopalong Cassidy to get involved. Monte Hale finds his outlaw-bashing curtailed when a judge orders him not to fire his six-guns within city limits or risk violating the peace. The Butler Brothers, Dick, Evan and Fred, want revenge on the sheriff, Tom Mix. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Hopalong Cassidy: The Counterfeiting Ring; Cactus Brain; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Buckaroos; Young Falcon: The Mystery of Little Star; Monte Hale: Peace Bond; Li'l Buck; Red Roan: Captive Herd; Gabby Hayes: Bucking Wheels of Glory!; Tom Mix: The Infamous Revenge. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and others. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Protecting a seemingly worthless treasure seems like an easy job for Hopalong Cassidy, but it's neither worthless nor easy. Young Falcon proves Little Star didn't commit the theft that got her exiled from her tribe, but finding the real culprit is trickier. An outlaw framed for murder is blackmailed by the real killer. Hopalong Cassidy: Buried Trouble; Cactus Brain; Young Falcon: Little Star's Secret; Monte Hale: The Men Who Died Twice; Hammer Head; Red Roan: Outlaw Valley; Gabby Hayes: The Cliff Bandits; Vita Min; Tom Mix: Blackmail. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. After a jewel robbery gone wrong, Hopalong Cassidy isn't the only one wondering how an outlaw plans to smuggle a fortune in diamonds out of the town. Young Falcon tries to find the tribe's thief and walks into a trap, in a story continued from the previous issue. Tom Mix wonders why someone is poisoning cattle; meanwhile, an outlaw disguises himself as the local veterinarian. Hopalong Cassidy: The Secret of the Wheel; Cactus Brain; Big Bow and Little Arrow: On the Right Track; Young Falcon Unmasks the Guilty; Monte Hale: Installment For Plunder; Tumbleweed Jr.; Hammer Head; Red Roan: Rodeo Terror; Gabby Hayes: The Vanishing Totems; Vita Min; Tom Mix: The Treacherous Plot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Bob Laughlin and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Hopalong Cassidy seeks a missing geologist, and finds he's in danger of disappearing himself. Monte Hale faces "the melancholy master of malevolent mischief, a dandified desperado known as The Weeper" (no apparent relation to the 20th-century Bulletman foe, but the shtick is the same). Tom Mix tries to find a new water source when a greedy rancher demands half his neighbors' cattle in exchange for access to a stream. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, featuring mascots like R. C. & Quickie and Popsickle Pete. Hopalong Cassidy: The Shadow of Death; Monte Hale Meets the Weeper; Red Roan: Killer Wolf; Tom Mix and the Lost Creek. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Hopalong Cassidy goes to Canada to study law-enforcement techniques of the Mounties, and gets caught up in a mystery involving missing fur trappers. Young Falcon helps a grizzled old prospector when his gold mine is seized by no-good claim jumpers. Tom Mix discovers gold hidden inside an anvil, and realizes why outlaws want the anvil so badly. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including one featuring Western hero Rocky Lane. Hopalong Cassidy: The Case of the Missing Fur Trappers; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: Dangerous Discovery; Monte Hale: Prisoner of the Comanches; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Four -Footed Sheriff; Gabby Hayes: The Great Triumph; Vita Min; Tom Mix: The Secret of the Hollow Anvil; Wilbur the Waiter. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Leonard Frank, Al Liederman and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Hopalong Cassidy's pal Drake attempts to build a bridge across Twin Rivers, but rustlers don't want the bridge and will kill to stop it. Gunslinger Ben Sweeney believes he is unbeatable because he has Wild Bill Hickok's gun - but then he meets Monte Hale. Masked outlaws try to kidnap the governor's daughter, but Tom Mix suspects they're really after the mysterious diamond pendant she's wearing. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade, and a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Hopalong Cassidy and the Threatening Past; Monte Hale: Killer's Gun!; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Portrait of a Horse; Gabby Hayes: Sweet Capture; Li'l Buck; Cowboy Cal; Tumbleweed Jr.; Tom Mix and the Pendant Plot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Hopalong Cassidy helps Las Pedras recover from an earthquake, but then someone else shows up as well: The Caravan Banditos. Monte Hale gets deputized so he can mount a cross-country chase to capture fugitive gambler King Faro, who leaves an Ace of Spades as a calling card. Tom Mix doesn't suspect that ranch hand Curly is involved with the rustlers who stole wild horses...or does he? Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including one featuring movie cowboy Rocky Lane. Hopalong Cassidy: The Caravan Banditos; Monte Hale: Death Plays the Ace; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Peril of Cougar Hollow; Gabby Hayes: The Chariot Race; Li'l Buck; Muttering Murtagh; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Food For Thought; General Store George; Whimpy; Tom Mix: The Rustlers of the Range. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Hopalong Cassidy is shocked when reformed ex-con Joe is held in a gambler's murder, but he suspects there's more to the story. Monte Hale faces the return of The Weeper, a sort of reverse-Joker who makes victims cry with pepper and onion-juice attacks (but a different Weeper than the one who fought Bulletman). Tom Mix tries to figure out who would abduct members of Blue Moon's tribe, and why. The last of a series of painted covers by Norman Saunders. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including one featuring movie cowboy Rocky Lane. Hopalong Cassidy: The Perfect Frameup; Monte Hale: Crying Crimes; Red Roan: Mountain Famine; Li'l Buck; Cactus Brain; Tom Mix: The Slaves in Bondage; Literary Lister. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Hopalong Cassidy gets backed into a corner by the ten members of the outlaw gang known as The Tornado Killers. Little Buck tries to keep the ink in a fountain pen, in a story reflecting 1950s technology. Tom Mix finds a wagon train that has been tricked into plummeting into Death Gulch by outlaws, who then sort through the remains, in a particularly violent pre-Code Western Hero story. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including one featuring movie cowboy Rocky Lane. Hopalong Cassidy: Cornered; Monte Hale Sells Pardner; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: The Poachers; Gabby Hayes: Road to Glory; Li'l Buck; Muttering Murtagh; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Turn Over a New Leaf; Mack the Magician; Whimpy; Tom Mix: The Death Gulch Trap. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. When rancher Mobray's son starts sleepwalking, a ranch hand with gambling debts realizes he can frame him for his father's murder. Monte pretends to have turned outlaw and holds up stagecoaches to expose an insurance swindle. Con men try to sell desert land by claiming it has an underground river, but Tom Mix is skeptical. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including one featuring movie cowboy Rocky Lane. Hopalong Cassidy: Death Walks the Night; Monte Hale, Outlaw; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Runaway Train; Gabby Hayes: Frantic Feet; Li'l Buck; Buck and Cluck: Oh, Brother; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Escape; Tom Mix: The Underground River. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.