Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books 1951

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.

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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 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.