Gabby Hayes Western (1948 Fawcett) comic books

Photo cover of Gabby Hayes. Inside front cover b/w photo of Gabby Hayes. "Public Outlaw No. 1", art by Leonard Frank; Gabby is mistaken as a outlaw when the real criminal replaces his picture on a wanted poster. "Ricky Rover Finds A Pal" text story by Dick Kraus. "Behind Bars"; Gabby is mistaken as a bandit and locked up in jail. "Stampede To Doom"; Cattle stampede after guns are fired. "The Tests" starring Musketeers of the West; 3 friends band together to prove they are woodsmen and trackers. "Plays the Dude," art by Leonard Frank; Gabby is refused entrance to the kitchen unless he cleans up his act and dresses like a "dude". Color pinup of Gabby Hayes on back cover. 52 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 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.

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.

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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Helping out at a lumber camp, Gabby rides logs downriver like Slim Pickens riding an ICBM in Dr. Strangelove. The Musketeers of the West try to figure out what's so secret about a burro train. Gabby discovers the deadly secret of a traveling "beauty wagon." Favorite line this issue: "Let 'er rip, yuh ornery jughead! I don't aim to be throwed!" Cowboy Cal; Gabby Hayes Rides the Rapids; Gabby Hayes and the Magic Lamp; Musketeers of the West and the Mystery of the Burro Train; Buck Desmond: Mojave Trail; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Hide-Out; The Beauty Wagon. 32 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. 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.

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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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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.

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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.

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 uses a divining rod and sheer luck when the Bar Nothing Ranch needs a new water supply. Gabby gets the drop on an outlaw gang, thanks to a barrel of molasses. Gabby sets out to capture some mountain goats, and hijinks ensue. Favorite line this issue: "Just wait 'til I git muh hands on the edytor!" The Water Wizard; The Saga of Rattlehead; Buck Desmond: Tumbleweeds Return; Young Falcon: The Triple Menace; The Flapjack Story. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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.

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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. When Corker the horse witnesses a man taken captive, he acts crazily, in an attempt to alert Gabby to the situation. When a gigantic lumberjack goes on a rampage in town, Gabby is elected to deal with him. Corker is mistaken for a rodeo trick-riding horse. Favorite line this issue: "Dingbust it! Yuh don't need bullets! Yuh need brains!" Chief Gray Matter; Loco Lew; Corker Goes Loco; Young Falcon: The Eagle's Nest; Buck Desmond: Bushwhacker; Paul's Bunion; Tricked! 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. 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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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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Outlaw Nasty Curr winds up in a horseless stage with Gabby, heading down winding mountain roads at breakneck speed. Ranchers are mystified when steers appear to be floating in the sky. When an eastern-educated rancher tries to get Gabby to play polo, the game will never be the same again. Favorite line this issue: "Dadburn it! I ain't no ghost! Get me off this critter!" Chief Gray Matter; The Long Haul to Sundance; Young Falcon: The Ruse!; The Ghost Herd; Buck Desmond: Coyote Chase!; Gabby Hayes Plays Polo; Loco Lew. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George Marko and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Folks gather from miles around to see a living caveman discovered in the mountains, but Gabby isn't convinced. Gabby tries to get the goods on crooked boxing promoter Slick Gargoyle, and winds up in the boxing ring, with his hands coated in solid concrete. Elitist big-game hunter Otis Q. Coleslaw sets out to bag the legendary moose Big Bill, but a humiliated Gabby vows revenge. Favorite line this issue: "Ain't no cave critter here! I knew that palaver was all hogwash! The idea is plumb ridickerlus!" Whipper-Snappers; The Cave Man; Young Falcon: The Swindlers; Gabby Hayes Kayoes the Champ; Buck Desmond: Mountain Blindness; The Big Game Hunt; Dopey Danny Dee. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George Marko and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. A mistake with hair dye leads to Gabby being mistaken for the fearsome outlaw Bluebeard. Gabby gets new glasses that make him more nearsighted than before, just in time to ruin a fancy-dress dinner. Gabby tries to prove that he's a rodeo trick-rider. Favorite line this issue: "It ain't fair to match an ole mustang like me against sech iggerant youngsters!" Chief Gray Matter; Bluebeard; Young Falcon: Death Rides the Present; The Spectacular Spectacles; Buck Desmond: Star Witness; Trick Rider; Loco Lew. 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 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!" Chief Gray Matter; The Headless Horseman; Western Quiz; Young Falcon: The Strange Sleep!; Gunsmoke at Eagle Rock; Buck Desmond: Lobo Killer; The White Antelope; Loco Lew. 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. 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.

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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.

The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Gabby fights to save stray steers from greedy ranchers, but he gets rounded up and faces the rustler's brand himself. Gabby tells Tippy his own version of "The Tortoise and the Hare," and how he battled the bandit El Gringo. Gabby doesn't know that the old coin he inherited is worth a fortune, but the outlaws trailing him do. Favorite line this issue: "I'm so busted I had to buy this mousetrap on credit!" Gabby Hayes and the Tortoise and the Hair; Loco Lew; Gabby Hayes and the Inheritance; Buck Desmond: Silent Witnesses; Sheriff Shays; Bandy and Randy; Mule Train; Bronko Betsy. 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. Handcuffed to a "wooden Indian," Gabby still manages to go after crooked private eyes and their repo racket. Gabby gets a little too involved in the conflict between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. After Gabby crosses paths with a fox, he finds himself the object of a fox hunt. Favorite line this issue: "Consarn it! The dingbusted varmints tricked me!" His Silent Pardner; Chief Gray Matter; Young Falcon: The Broken Weapons; The Saga of the Battering Ram; Buck Desmond: Special Edition; Whitey Whiskers: His Raining Moment; The Fox Hunt. 32 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.