Western Hero (1949) comic books 1948-1950

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Sheriff Hopalong Cassidy investigates a murder that is complicated by one body too many. Monte Hale faces a sheriff gone bad. Missing moccasins give Tom Mix the clue to a murder. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade and one featuring movie cowboy Rocky Lane. Hopalong Cassidy: The Case of the Extra Body; Monte Hale Meets the Killer Sheriff; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Obo Terror; Gabby Hayes: Coached for Trouble; Li'l Buck; Buck and Cluck: Oh, Brother; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Paper Picker; Tom Mix: The Case of the Lost Moccasins. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd witnesses a deputy's murder and learns that the local sheriff has been replaced by an outlaw. (The series formerly titled "Hopalong Cassidy" begins referring to its hero by the name "Bill Boyd" (Hopalong's actor) with this issue, possibly because of issues with rights to the character.) Monte Hale isn't sure what to think when dead gunslingers seemingly return from the dead as ghost bandits. Tom Mix investigates when a rancher is beaten by outlaws who want the money in the ranch safe. Bill Boyd: The False Accusation; Monte Hale and the Bandits of Boot Hill; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Logger Peril; Li'l Buck; Smart Alex; Tom Mix and the Strange Lands! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd tries to figure out the connection between the attack on a rancher and the bank robbers who hit the Loder town bank. Monte Hale tracks the mysterious masked bandit known as Senor Diablo to his hideout. Tom Mix tries to cure a sheriff of shock so he can learn who attacked the man, before they come back to finish the job. Bill Boyd: The Underground Tunnel; Monte Hale Meets Senor Diablo; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Valley Prison; Gabby Hayes: The Prairie Pirate; Li'l Buck; Tumbleweed Jr.: Truth Pays; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Fish's Tale; Tom Mix: The Unknown Enemy. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Leonard Frank, Edmond Good and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd must track a killer through deadly Bullet Hole Trail, a mountain passage so narrow, there's no turning back. Monte Hale suspects a famous stage clown of a string of robberies, but the man has an alibi, being on stage during the crimes. Tom Mix tries to capture the mind-controlling menace known as The Hypnotist, but the fugitive is one step ahead. Bill Boyd: The Bullet Hole Trail; Monte Hale: The Minstrel Man; Cactus Brain; Red Roan: Last Farewell; Gabby Hayes: The Knight of Terror; Cactus Brain; Li'l Buck; Dimwit Dimby; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Hot Chestnuts; Dusty: The Joker Gets Joked; Tom Mix: The Hypnotist. 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. Monte Hale catches up to his old enemy The Cougar, an outlaw in a cougar mask who also has a trained cougar sidekick. Gabby Hayes is mistakenly recruited by the Canadian Mounties (who actually wanted tracker "Grabby Ace") to track down fearsome Giant George, the Fur Fiend of the frozen North. Tom Mix faces the strange Count Ragoon from Transylvania, in a sort of Western horror story. Bill Boyd: The Disappearing Bandits; Musical Mullins Uses His Head!; Monte Hale: The Menace of the Cougar; Cactus Brain; Gabby Hayes of the Northwest Mounted; Huck and Buck: Clothes (Un)Conscious!; Slim Carson: Border Slaying; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Monkey Shines; Luke and Fluke: Healthy Hokum!; Tom Mix: The Dobie Vampire! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd enters a horse race to win money for the Old Folks' Home, but someone doesn't want him to win that race. Monte Hale faces the return of his old enemy The Minstrel Man, a (white) stage clown who has turned to crime. An artist helps Tom Mix identify a stage robber. Bill Boyd: The Race of Peril; Monte Hale: The Song of Death; Slim Carson: Ocatillo Witness; Li'l Buck; Tom Mix: The Mystery Man. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd tries to help a man find his brother to share an inheritance, but outlaws get wind of the money and hatch a scheme. Gabby Hayes stands to inherit a fortune, if he can remain silent for 24 hours. Tom Mix seeks an escaped convict, but the man's found an ex-partner who will harbor him...if he doesn't kill him. Bill Boyd: Death in Disguise; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Heavy Toll; Gabby Hayes: The Wacky Hill; Monte Hale: Brand of the Double X; Jenkins the Jeweler; Flim and Flam: A Hot Time in the Old Town; Slim Carson: Gun Runners; Li'l Buck; Cactus Brain; Tom Mix: The Fatal Hide-Out. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd goes to Black Crow Corners to help an old friend, and quickly finds himself dodging bullets. Monte Hale must prove himself innocent of murder, but first he must avoid an angry mob that wants to string him up without trial. Tom Mix joins forces with Ricochet Ross to find a sheriff-killer...but is it the real Ricochet Ross? Plus a vintage ad for belts, wallets and suspenders featuring popular movie cowboy Roy Rogers. Bill Boyd: Treachery at the Triple T!; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Lesson; Gabby Hayes: Lights Out!; Monte Hale: Wanted for Murder; Jed and Ned; Border Patrol: Peril Herd; Li'l Buck; Cactus Brain; Tom Mix Meets Ricochet Ross; Tenderfoot Ted. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd mediates an argument between Ted and Dewell that escalates into a fire. Monte Hale tries to maintain order in Lost Pike after a nearby gold strike. Con man Hiram T. Pressure sells Gabby Hayes a railcar of "raw wool" that turns out to be live sheep...and cowboys hate sheep. Bill Boyd and the Fiery Fate!; Big Bow and Little Arrow and the Old Haunt; Gabby Hayes: Gabby Goes Wool-Gathering!; Monte Hale Battles the Great Hunger!; Magical Manders; Slim Carson: Border Fracas; Li'l Buck; Cactus Brain; Hill and Dale; Unruffled Ruffles; Ban and Joe; Tom Mix and the Bank Busters! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Bill Boyd helps put out a fire at a friend's lumber camp and finds himself accused of murder. Monte Hale pursues bandits who have discovered a new method of getaway: hot-air balloon. Tom Mix tries to protect the town of Dobie from a devastating flood, as well as the owlhoots who come scavenging afterwards. Bill Boyd: The Murder Suspect; Monte Hale: The Balloon Bandits; Slim Carson: River Rendezvous; Li'l Buck; Battered Batters; Tom Mix: The Rampaging River. 32 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. Tex Ritter catches up with a train in mid-robbery, thanks to his horse White Flash. Gabby Hayes encounters con man Will Fleece, who is disguised as a Treasury agent. Outlaws swindle a man out of his gold mine, but when it turns out to be fool's gold, they're not laughing. Tex Ritter: Range Robber; Monte Hale: Pardner's Hate!; Slim Carson: Decoy Trail; The Prisoners and the Penguins; Gabby Hayes: The Money Fraud; Li'l Buck; The Long and the Short of It; The Key of Honor; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Grand Feast; Cactus Brain; Tom Mix: The Swindler's Revenge. 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. While taking a fishing day, Tex Ritter runs across members of the outlaw gang that's been terrorizing the town. Gabby Hayes discovers that the womenfolk have been won over by Pious Percy, who's convinced them to disarm everyone in town. Ex-con Crafty plans revenge against Tom Mix by spreading rumors that outlaw loot is buried under Tom's ranch. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including one featuring movie cowboy Rocky Lane, and a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves Little Sally, with art by Bill Schreiber. Tex Ritter: Death on the Hook; Monte Hale and the Captive Town; Slim Carson: The Gun Runners; Stirup Stuart; Gabby Hayes: Drop That Gun!; Li'l Buck; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Out in the Cold Again; Cactus Brain; Tom Mix: The Underground Threat. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.