Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books 1948-1950

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Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Art Helfant. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. "Gabby polishes his boots and his manners, puts away the shootin' irons and combs the cactus out of his whiskers, but his efforts to be a social success all add up to a Disaster in the Drawing Room!" Delirious from thirst, a hallucinating Gabby accidentally captures the Black Raven Bandit. For the big whittlin' contest, Gabby sets out to whittle his masterpiece. Favorite line this issue: "I'll teach yuh to appreeshyate real whittlin'!" On the Warpath; Quiz; Disaster in the Drawing Room; Buck Desmond; Old Slick; Rubbernose Randolph; The Black Raven Bandit; The Whittlin' Contest; Dawson's Revenge; The Counterfeit Strongman; Boxcar Benny. 48 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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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.

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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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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. 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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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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The 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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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.

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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 meets an outlaw horse, or as the opening caption puts it, "Meet Streak, the stealing stallion - the strangest outlaw ever to sow a wild oat, or eat one!" Gabby must prove his boasts about his swimming ability when champion swimmer Snapper Finn calls his bluff. Gabby makes a cake that tastes so bad, convict Luke Warm breaks out of prison just to burn down the place where it was made. Favorite line this issue: "Who ever heard of a hoss thief...I mean a hoss hoss thief?" The Four-Legged Bandit; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: Stampede in the Night!; The Swimming Fool; Gabby Hayes Bakes a Cake; Buck Desmond: Rustler's End!; Loco Lew; Lyrical Lucille; Snippy and Stony; The Golden Eggs. 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'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.