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

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. When Tubby Swift uses an iceboat to pull off winter robberies, Gabby teaches Corker the horse to ice-skate in pursuit. Wing Ears Whalen uses his oversized ears to crack the bank's safe and frame Bart for the crime. Gabby is afraid of losing his meal ticket when Aunt Hester starts dating the sheriff. Plus a vintage ad for View-Master, featuring Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid and Pancho. Favorite line this issue: "If yuh had half of Corker's hoss sense yuh wouldn't make such insulting remarks about a geen-yus!" Chief Walking Box; Young Falcon: Race of Death!: Buck Desmond: Jammers Showdown; Loco Lew; The Skating Horse; The Flat; The Listening Looter; The Turkey Trot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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. In a three-part story, Gabby must find prospector Sourdough's fortune, which he left "at the end of the rainbow." But daredevil Zing Boomer is looking for it too, and Gabby accidentally re-creates each of Zing's best stunts while on the hunt. But that's not nearly as dangerous as when he accidentally steals the lunch Aunt Hester made for the charity picnic. Favorite line this issue: "I shore hate to waste such dee-lishus vittles! But this is the only way to quiet them cussed mountain lions!" Sourdoughs Gold, Chapter 1: Chasing Rainbows; Young Falcon: The Silver Slaves; Stuttering Stuart; Old Slick; Sourdoughs Gold, Chapter 2: Bats in the Belfry!; Ambling Andy; Buck Desmond: Outlaw Snare; Sourdoughs Gold, Chapter 3: In the Lions Den; Chief Gray Matter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank 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 matches wits with the stagecoach robber called the Falcon, who has trained birds of prey. A jewel thief hides the Richbilt Necklace in Gabby's marble bag, right before the big marble tournament. A snake-oil salesman tricks Gabby into selling phony hair tonic, but when the tonic actually causes baldness, Gabby is on the hook. Favorite line this issue: "No need to be bald! My tonic will grow hair on a billiard ball!" Gabby Hayes Defies the Falcon!; Quiz; Young Falcon: The Silver Slaves; Porky and Pine; The Marble Champ; Boxcar Benny; Buck Desmond: Giveaway Silver; A Hair-Raising Tale!; Chief Gray Matter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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. Gabby matches wits and fists with Porcupine Quill, the human porcupine, years before a similar villain appeared in Marvel comics. Pistol Packing Pattie gives a prankster a lesson in the finer points of the English language. Trapped by bad guys in a cabin set on fire, Gabby is saved when a squirrel bites through the ropes tying his hands together. (Shades of Squirrel Girl!) Favorite line this issue: "When another hombre is afraid, that's cowardice, but when you're afraid, that's caution!" Hide-Out; Buck Desmond: Gun-Slick Showdown; Quiz; Young Falcon: The Feathers; Pistol Packing Pattie; Chief Gray Matter; The Loco Photo; Prisoner Primm; The Human Porcupine; Bing: Sleepy Time; Loco Lew; Gabby Hayes Dunks a Rustler. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby's insistence on playing the drum accidentally reveals that an innocent-seeming music dealer is smuggling weapons. But his intervention just leads to his being captured in a drum and rolled through Kachoo tribal lands at top speed, leaving chaos in his wake. Somehow, he manages to free a hostage stagecoach, end the Kachoo's drought, and prevent a war! Plus a vintage ad for View-Master, featuring Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid and Pancho. Favorite line this issue: "Listen, yuh laughing hyenas! I'll prove I'm the best dingbusted drum-beater that ever walked!" The Drums of Death; Hopeful Hilda; The Gabby Gun; Young Falcon: The Dangerous Trio; Loco Lew ; Chief Gray Matter; Dizzy Daisy; The Fighting Furniture. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Miss Ellie's brother-in-law from Back East turns out to be rude, destructive outlaw Bruce Deuce. A crooked horse dealer plans to win the Cornpone Stakes horse race, but he didn't reckon on Gabby and his fast horse Corker. Plus a vintage ad for kids' "future rings" based on the series Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Favorite line this issue: "That mangy nag will never race against my noble blueblood! The very idea is insulting, suh!" The Outlaw In-Law; Suicide Bridge; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: The Plotters; Prudent Pratt; Chief Grey Matter; Gabby Hayes and the Great Horse Race; Ambitious Andrews. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby is hired by a scientist to join the search for a living sabre-toothed tiger on Gunshot Glacier, but adventurer Cliff Hanger wants to get there first. Young Falcon discovers that the creature attacking hunting parties is a giant Gila monster. Trying to help Miss Nellie win a fishing contest, Gabby winds up inside a taxidermied whale! Favorite line this issue: "By the great horned spoon! At last I found a mouth bigger than mine!" The Battle of Gunshot Glacier; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: The Scaly Monster; Chief Gray Matter; Archibald the Archer; Steaming Mustang; Gabby Hayes Rides a Whale! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. A tornado in the desert reveals a lost city filled with treasure, but Dandy Ruff wants to get rid of Gabby and keep the treasure for himself. Gabby tries to save a wild mustang herd from Mustang Mike, who wants to make them into horsemeat. Gabby protects a new arrival from Scotland, whose strange dress and ways make him the object of attacks by the local cowfolk. Plus a vintage ad for Walt Disney mini-comics in exchange for Wheaties box tops. Favorite line this issue: "Jehoshaphat! If that stubborn tenderfoot keeps his kilts, he'll be kilt!" The City Under Sand; Loco Lew; Young Falcon and the Hunter's Creed; Chief Gray Matter; The Wild Horse Round-Up!; In the Soup; Gabby Hayes and the Fighting Tenderfoot. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Thinking it's a joke, Gabby enters a rodeo for outlaws only, but it's all too real. Gabby gets a return on an African investment that turns out to be a live giraffe, Bongo from the Congo. Gabby matches muscles with circus strongman Hercules, and comes up short. Plus a vintage Wheaties ad featuring baseball legend Stan Musial. Favorite line this issue: "Dingbust yore ornery neck! I figgered on collecting gold and diamonds, not a freak critter!" Rustlers Rodeo; Jumping Jiminy; Gabby Hayes Wins by a Neck!; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: The Lost Wagon; Chief Gray Matter; The Hercules of the West. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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, homesteader Ken Tucky has been killed by a wolf pack...or was he? Can Gabby and his pal believe the trigger-happy stranger who told them? Before they can find out, they must confront the wolf pack themselves. Favorite line this issue: "Surrender, yuh lowdown bushwhacking sidewinder! Here comes Gabby Hayes!" Ruckus in the Rockies, Chapter 1: The Wolf Pack; Loco Lew; Buffalo Hunt; Rapp the Reporter; Chapter 2: The Bear Facts; Molasses Mouth; Young Falcon: The Canoe of Death; Sulkys Sad Story; Chapter 3: In Hot Water. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Volunteer firefighters Gabby and Blaze Burns argue over who should be in charge of the fire brigade, causing chaos when there's a fire. While escorting a tribal totem, Gabby is attacked by fur trader Squinty, who wants the territory for himself. Gabby tries to invent the food truck 100 years early. Plus a vintage Christmas-themed ad for Roadmaster bikes ("the bicycle with bumpers"). Favorite line this issue: "It's got a flapjack flipper, a doughnut dunker, icebox, stove, and everything - all invented by me!" The Fire Fighters; Chief Gray Matter; Loco Lew; The Evil Weevil; Gabby Hayes Totes a Totem; Young Falcon: The Stolen Stallions; The Chuck Wagon. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Grizzled old Gabby thinks he's seen everything, but "prairie pirates," riding a pirate ship on wheels across the desert, is a new one even for him. To capture rustlers, Gabby must enter the bullfighting ring, but the bulls aren't ready for Gabby Hayes. An outlaw uses trained mosquitoes as accomplices to his crimes. Plus a vintage Christmas-themed ad for Roadmaster bikes ("the bicycle with bumpers"). Favorite line this issue: "A man of my standing takes no lip, yuh sea-going coyote!" The Prairie Pirate!; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: The Imposter; The Battle of the Bull Ring; Sneaky Rustler; Loco Lew; The Buzzing Bandit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. To tackle rustlers, Gabby uses a new invention, the rubber lasso, after accidentally putting on a dress. When Gabby is up to his neck in trouble, Tippy's ventriloquism lessons come in handy. Gabby tries to keep Miss Ellie from being swept off her feet by the visiting actor and ladies' man Hartley Braker. Favorite line this issue: "What's that thing heading for us? Looks like a flying bearded lady!" The Rubber Lasso; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: The Tired Trappers; The Talking Duck; Loco Lew; Tar and Feathers; The Rich Town!; The Bad Actor. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Unknown to Gabby, the new carnival in town is run by an old enemy, who sends his carnies after Gabby. After Gabby accidentally gets a perm, he tries to hide from the other cowpokes, and winds up discovering a beehive the hard way. Gabby accidentally finds the horse thieves' secret escape route when he falls in the well. Favorite line this issue: "When he tries the games we'll make him look sillier than a one-legged coyote!" The Merry-Go-Roundup; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: Guide to Death; Busy as a Bee; Abdul the Bull-Bull; Chief Gray Matter; The Low-Down Horse Thieves. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby discovers a sea monster in Massacre Lake - or is it just a plot by Fish Head Pike to get the lake's fishing for himself? To race Moose Mustard and his brothers to a land claim, Gabby harnesses two actual moose to his sled. Gabby tries to live off the land, to prove he's a true frontiersman. Favorite line this issue: "What a dee-lishus odor of vittles! Reckon my mind is cracking under the strain!" The Monster of Massacre Lake; Laughing Boy; Young Falcon: The Legend of the Winged Beast; The Land Rush; Bronko Betsy; Chief Gray Matter; Nitro Nick; Loco Lew; Crafty Woodcraft! 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 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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Hunter Buffalo Hyde wants to slaughter the buffalo belonging to the Blackfeet tribe, but the tribe has just made Gabby an official member, and he takes exception. A Grinch-like outlaw steals the toys of every kid in town...but why? When Gabby takes a side-job driving a nitroglycerine wagon, an explosion is inevitable. Favorite line this issue: "I'll try to be a brave brave!" The Blundering Herd; Chief Gray Matter; Masked Menace; The Toy Bandit; Young Falcon: The Friends of Evil; Danger: Explosives! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby plans to defeat bandits by concealing gold in wagon wheels, but the bandits have an insider who hears the scheme. Outlaw Pesty Buggs has figured out how to control hordes of locusts, and uses them to threaten ranchers and farmers. Gabby Hayes becomes a tax collector, and his first task is to get payment from the miserly Abel. Favorite line this issue: "I'll show yuh a plump easy solution to the sitchyation!" Golden Wheels; Tenderfoot Treasure; The Locust Roundup; The Tough Hombre; Hank and Buster; Young Falcon: Cunning Death; Chief Gray Matter; Gabby Hayes Becomes a Tax Collector. 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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. What better way to best the outlaw called Pop Corn than by using the smell of popcorn itself? Gabby's horse Corker, in many ways the brains of the team, is hypnotized by the mesmerist Evil Eye Blink. When a shipment of sports equipment comes through town, Gabby winds up using tennis rackets and golf clubs to take on outlaw Hot Lead McNasty. Favorite line this issue: "Seems I stepped on yore corn, Corn! Now to bop yuh on the jaw, Pop!" Popping Trouble; Loonie Les; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: Killer at the Hunt!; Hammer Head; Loco Lew; Corker, the Outlaw; Snow Fun; Lil Buck; Cactus Brain; Sports Champion. 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.