Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books
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Issue #7
$5.80
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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Issue #8
$8.40
View scanThe 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.
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Issue #9
$4.20
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.
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Issue #14
$5.20
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.
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Issue #15
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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Issue #20
$14.00
View scansThe legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. When gold is found near town, Gabby tries to keep the ranch's cowhands from deserting their herds to go prospecting. Outlaws hide their loot in Gabby's fiddle, but good luck getting that away from him before the big dance. Gabby employs a wagonload of bananas to stop bandits, in perhaps the only weaponized-banana battle in Western comics history. Favorite line this issue: "Stop, yuh stoopid idjits! Thar's more gold in my dingbusted teeth than in all of Skull Valley!" The Gold Rush; Brick and Brack: The Car Critters; The Fiddling Fool!; The Banana Bonanza!; Loco Lew; Young Falcon and the Vultures; Buck Desmond: Firetrap; Tombstone Trickery. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #21
$14.00
View scanThe 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.
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Issue #30
$2.50
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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Issue #32
$2.50
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.
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Issue #46
$6.80
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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Issue #48
$6.80
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.
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Issue #57
$3.20
- Cover detached at one staple. Water damage. Staple rust.
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.
