Gabby Hayes
#55
(August 1955)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago ? (editor)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Ten-Gallon Allen / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Leon Winik (signed as Win)
- Inks
- Leon Winik (signed as Win)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You sure do have a big appetite, Uncle Skunky!
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Reprints
-
from Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (Toby, 1950 series) #10 (April-May 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Black and white reprint.
Dunks A Rustler
Gabby Hayes / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gabby Hayes
- Reprints
- from Gabby Hayes Western (Fawcett, 1948 series) #29 (April 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
Even humorous comics like Gabby Hayes came in for Comics Code Authority censorship; in the Fawcett original of this story, for example, Gabby is trapped by the bad guys in a fire and rescued by a squirrel biting through the ropes on his wrists. But to satisfy the censors Charlton eliminated all the flames and just left Gabby sitting on a log with the squirrel gnawing the ropes with no fire in evidence--even though Gabby is still talking about it!?
The Feathers
Young Falcon / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Young Falcon
- Reprints
- from Gabby Hayes Western (Fawcett, 1948 series) #29 (April 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
This reprint was in fact edited to satisfy Comics Code Authority censors. For example, when the villain cracks the hero Falcon over the head, in the original Fawcett version he does so with the butt of a pistol--when Charlton ran the story the pistol is gone and he clobbers Falcon with a bare fist.
The Loco Photo
Gabby Hayes / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gabby Hayes
- Reprints
- from Gabby Hayes Western (Fawcett, 1948 series) #29 (April 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
Even funny comics like Gabby Hayes came in for censorship in reprints to satisfy the Comics Code Authority. In this story the changes are primarily the removal of all sound-effect words. CLICK for the camera shutter, BZZZ for the bees, and SPLASH for water were apparently OK, but all of the following apparently seditious sound effects were deleted from the Charlton version of the story: SOCK for a punch, PLOP for a watery slap, SPLAT for dumping water on a bad guy, SPLASH (the second time it apparently wasn't OK), and in the final fight two SOCKs, two WHUMPs, a CRASH, and a CRACK.
Balanced Diet
Wagonwheels / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Characters
- Wagonwheels
- Reprints
- from Lash LaRue Western (Fawcett, 1949 series) #25 (February 1952)
-
Big Top Fracas
Buck Desmond / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Dick Kraus
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Buck Desmond
- Synopsis
- a Buck Desmond Story
- Reprints
- from Gabby Hayes Western (Fawcett, 1948 series) #30 (May 1951)
-
The Human Porcupine
Gabby Hayes / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gabby Hayes
- Reprints
- from Gabby Hayes Western (Fawcett, 1948 series) #29 (April 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
In this reprint, in order to appease the Comics Code Authority censors, every single sound effect word in the Fawcett original (the usual collection of SOCK, WHACK, SPLASH and the like) have all been eliminated from the story. Apparently you could show Gabby hit somebody, but you couldn't have a sound effect to go with the punch.
Wide Open Remark!
Wagonwheels / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Characters
- Wagonwheels
- Reprints
- from Lash LaRue Western (Fawcett, 1949 series) #28 (May 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
Ten-Gallon Allen / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Leon Winik (signed as Win)
- Inks
- Leon Winik (signed as Win)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why be old-fashioned?
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Reprints
- from Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (Toby, 1950 series) #10 (April-May 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Black and white reprint.
[no title indexed]
Gabby Hayes / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Gabby Hayes
Indexer Notes
On the back cover.
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Gabby Hayes -
1.
["You sure do have a big appetite, Uncle Skunky!"]
Ten-Gallon Allen -
2.
Dunks A Rustler
Gabby Hayes -
3.
The Feathers
Young Falcon -
4.
The Loco Photo
Gabby Hayes -
5.
Balanced Diet
Wagonwheels -
6.
Big Top Fracas
Buck Desmond -
7.
The Human Porcupine
Gabby Hayes -
8.
Wide Open Remark!
Wagonwheels -
9.
["Why be old-fashioned?"]
Ten-Gallon Allen -
10.
[no title indexed]
Gabby Hayes
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Pat Conolly
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Steve Newton
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Smith
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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