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  • Issue #2
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 2
    • Cover detached from staples. Cover affixed to spine of interior wraps with glue. Centerfold detached at one staple. Staple rust. 1" Cumulative spine split.

    The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby pursues the mountain lions that are taking the Bar O Ranch cattle, and winds up in the lions' den, wearing only his union suit. Gabby witnesses a murder at the rodeo, and the only clue is an IOU he finds in the dead man's hand. Four-Gun Fitts is such a good gunslinger, he can fire guns with his toes - which is something you just won't see in any Western movie. Fitts terrorizes the town, but he goes too far when he shoots Gabby's jug of maple syrup. Favorite line this issue: "Faster, Corker! My tonsils is achin' to embrace this tree juice!" Cactus Brain; Li'l Buck; Gabby Hayes Gets Cold Feet; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Bachelor of Science; Rolling Stone; Rodeo Champ!; Musketeers of the West; Gabby Hayes vs. Four-Gun Fitts. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 3

    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.

  • Issue #4
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 4

    The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Sheriff Daggle needs Gabby's help to catch outlaw mastermind Silent Sam, but when his mouth gets stuck with taffy, he's mistaken for Silent Sam himself. Gabby gets into deeper trouble when he agrees to judge a "vittles" cooking contest. Gabby tries to teach a boy the difference between tame and wild horses. Favorite line this issue: "Skedaddle, yuh locoed sprout! That hoss is a killer!" The Plight of Silent Sam; Chief Gray Matter; The Matinee Idol; Loco Lew; Buck Desmond; The Vittles Contest; Tumbleweed Jr.; Menace in Disguise; The Boy Who Loved Horses; Li'l Buck; Cactus Brain. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #6
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 6

    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 investigates after a "caveman," apparently awakened from a desert cave, speaks English and robs unwary travelers. The Musketeers of the West realize that someone is selling bad ammunition to the wagon trains. Gabby inherits a ghost town called Dry Skull, only to find it inhabited by three fugitive gunslingers. Favorite line this issue: "Ain't no caveman hereabouts! And iffen thar wuz, I'd tie the galoot in knots!" Chief Gray Matter; Gabby Hayes and the Caveman; Gabby Hayes and His Dark Secret; Musketeers of the West: Armed for Death; Buck Desmond: Poison Creek; Gabby Hayes and His Ghost Town; Loco Lew. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 7
    • Staple rust.

    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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    3 days left Auction 1949 FAWCETT Comics GABBY HAYES WESTERN #7 Scarce G.A. Pre-Comic Code - G/VG

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  • Issue #8
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 8

    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.

  • Issue #9
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 9

    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.

  • Issue #11
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 11

    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.

  • Issue #12
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 12
    • Cover detached. 1" Cumulative spine split.

    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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    $13 GABBY HAYES WESTER #12 - GOOD COND. - FAWCETT

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  • Issue #14
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 14

    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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    $20 Gabby Hayes Western #14 VG/FN Fishing For Trouble 1950 Fawcett Comics CBX201
    $400 GABBY HAYES WESTERN #14 FAWCETT PUB GOLDEN AGE 1950 CGC 9.2 GRADED! PHOTO COVER!

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  • Issue #15
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 15
    • Light staple rust.

    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.

  • Issue #20
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 20

    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.

  • Issue #21
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 21

    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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    3 days left Auction Gabby Hayes Western #21 Aug 1950 Golden Age Western

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  • Issue #24
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 24
    • 6.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached.

    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.

  • Issue #25
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 25

    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.

  • Issue #30
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 30

    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.

  • Issue #36
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 36

    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.

  • Issue #43
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 43

    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.

  • Issue #45
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 45

    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.

  • Issue #46
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 46

    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.

  • Issue #48
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 48

    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.

  • Issue #50
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 50

    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.

  • Issue #53
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 53
    • REMAINDERED COPY.

    Stories and art by Leonard Frank, 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. Gabby wants to know why the Headless Horseman is warning folks to stay away from River Valley. When Heartless McGue and his gang kidnap Tippy, Gabby tracks them to their mountaintop hideout. Gabby and Bullfrog Banks compete to capture the elusive white antelope and the favor of the Antelope tribe. Favorite line this issue: "Skeedaddle, yuh consarned haint! I ain't handing over my be-ootiful haid to a hombre who ain't got a haid of his own!" Rattlers; The Headless Horseman; Western Quiz; Young Falcon: The Strange Sleep!; Gunsmoke at Eagle Rock; Buck Desmond: Lobo Killer; The White Antelope; Prospector Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #57
    Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) 57
    • 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.