Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books 1951-1953

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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. Gabby takes exception when Bill Board plasters his advertising signs all over the West, obscuring the natural views. Outlaws swindle food from Aunt Hester by pretending to be injured in her boarding house. British landowner Sir Loinstake, who looks like Charlie McCarthy come to life, takes exception to Gabby and his uncouth ways. Favorite line this issue: "Bill Board is a spry young hustler, while Gabby creaks in so many joints he sounds like a rusty gate when he bends over!" Gabby Hayes Wins His Spurs; Gopherface; Young Falcon: The Tumbleweed of Death; Bearded Baby; Diggem the Dentist; Chief Gray Matter; Hoghead Harry; Vittles for Villains; Loco Lew; Sagebrush; A Battle Royal. 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. 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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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.