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| Excellent work here from Don Heck. Great Cover.
The first story is Heck inked by Morosi, which is unusual. Works well too.
Even the Jack Sparling story is good too.
And a full-page Photo of Buster Crabb too.
Cheers! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | 1955 | Price: 0.00 FREE | Pages: 1 |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Gallant; Cuffy |
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| Illustration | Best Wishes to My Friend (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: Buster Crabbe? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Buster Crabbe [as Captain Gallant] |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Full-page photograph of Crabbe as Gallant. |
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| Comic Story | Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cuffy tells the reader about the French Foreign Legion and introduces the characters. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Baba (pony); Fuzzy; Josephine (camel) |
| Notes | Possible Morisi pencils per Nick Caputo. |
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| Comic Story | Josie Gets Goin' (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Fuzzy has Josephine entered into a camel race. Unfortunately, the locals want to win as well and are willing to do whatever it takes to disgrace the Legion. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Fuzzy; Josephine (camel); El Nadar (camel); Ali Ben |
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| Comic Story | Marcher on Crever March or Die (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Origins of the French Foreign Legion. |
| Content | Genre: Historical; War | Characters: Louis-Philippe (King of France); General de Poyote |
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| Comic Story | Desert Dee-Light (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | An American traveling the desert has his daughter kidnapped. Captain Gallant and the Legion come to the rescue. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Mr. Quint; Marcia Quint; Sergeant Duval; Richard |
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| Comic Story | Last Will and Testament of Georges Bohnert (1 page) |
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| Comic Story | A Saddle for Baba (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Robbers steal from the supply camel train and Captain Gallant has to stop them. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Baba (pony); Fuzzy; Yusef (death); Musseim; Yahab; Sergeant Duval |
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| Advertisement | Captain Gallant Television Show (1 page) |
| Featuring | Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Gallant; Cuffy |
| Notes | Promo for the Captain Gallant television show. |
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| Illustration | Good Luck, Boys and Girls (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: Cuffy? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Cuffy |
| Notes | Inside back cover of the "non-Heinz" edition.
Photograph of Cuffy on a donkey. |
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| Advertisement | Heinz Products (1 page) |
| Featuring | Heinz |
| Notes | Inside back cover on "Heinz"-version. |
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| Activity | Junior Legionnaires Membership Certificate (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph);? (retouching) | Inks:? (photograph);? (retouching) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Gallant; Cuffy |
| Notes | Back cover. Certificate to join the Legion. Art seems to be from a retouched photograph. The "Heinz"-version has a Heinz logo on it; the "non-Heinz"-version does not. |
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