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Gabby Hayes Western #43 (1952)

Fawcett · 1952 · 36 pages

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Contains 10 stories
Gabby Hayes Wins His Spurs
7 pp · western-frontier
Definite Proof!
1 pp · humor; western-frontier

Chief Gray Matter settles a heated debate about whether insects can talk, and he's got what he considers definite proof to back up his answer. This Western humor tale delivers its punchline with the kind of groan-worthy wordplay that makes these old frontier yarns so charming.

Signs of Stupidity!
1 pp · humor; western-frontier

When the cook falls ill, Gopher-Face volunteers to prepare dinner—and decides to mark his two pies so he won't mix up the apple from the mince. There's just one problem: he's marked both pies with the exact same label, leaving him completely unable to tell which is which. A one-page comedy about the perils of well-intentioned but spectacularly poor planning.

Untitled story
0.5 pp · humor
Hoghead Harry Toes the Mark!
1 pp · humor; western-frontier

Hoghead Harry wakes in the night to what he thinks is a burglar's hand at the foot of his bed, and in his panicked haste to protect himself, he fires his gun—only to discover too late that the "intruder" was his own foot. This quick-witted frontier humor tale finds our hapless hero learning a painful lesson about jumping to conclusions.

Vittles for Villains
6 pp · western-frontier

When two wanted outlaws pose as injured invalids to con the kindhearted women of Rawhide into feeding them, Gabby Hayes finds himself starving while all the town's best vittles go to the fraudsters. Desperate and hungry after the villains cut him off from his beloved home cooking, Gabby stumbles onto their secret—and realizes the only way to stop them is to turn their own greed against them. It's a hilarious battle of wits and appetite that leaves these food-thieving varmints exactly where they belong.

A Shirt Tale!
0.67 pp · humor; western-frontier

Loco Lew wakes in the dead of night to spot something white moving in his room—and without thinking twice, he reaches for his gun and fires. When he turns on the lamp to see what he's shot, he discovers it was only his own shirt, leading him to a darkly humorous reflection on how lucky he really was.

The Tumbleweed of Death
4 pp · western-frontier

When Young Falcon encounters a dying brave with a mysterious warning about "the Tumbleweed," the lone hunter finds himself drawn into a deadly mystery at the Oswego camp. Suspicion falls on Bent Twig, a cast-out tribesman living beyond Moon Ridge, and Young Falcon sets out at dusk to uncover the truth behind the deadly weed. This four-page western tale from 1952 pits cunning and courage against an unknown threat in the forest wilderness.

Light Thinking!
1 pp · humor; western-frontier

When a cowboy poses a riddle about the difference between moonlight and sunlight to Simmons, he thinks he's found the perfect answer—one that's sure to be clever enough to stump his kid cousin. But Gabby's quick-witted response might just land him in hot water instead.

A Battle Royal
6 pp · western-frontier

When a snobbish titled Englishman tries to swindle a local woman out of her savings by selling a valuable ranch dirt cheap, Gabby Hayes—the foreman with a hair-trigger temper—smells a con and launches a wild pursuit across the prairie to stop it. Between his faithful horse's incredible leaps, dynamite traps, and collapsing wagons, Gabby stays hot on the crooks' trail, determined to expose the imposters before the deed is done.

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