0655 - Francis, The Famous Talking Mule | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36
Notes
Indicia title is "FRANCIS, THE FAMOUS TALKING MULE, No. 655." Code number is FRANCIS O.S. #655-5510. Copyright 1955 by United Features Syndicate. Seventh of seventeen Francis Four Color issues.
Cover
1 page
Feature
Francis the Famous Talking Mule
Genre
Fantasy
Characters
Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling; Billy (parrot)
Pencils
Don Gunn
Inks
Don Gunn
First Line
What's so wonderful about a talking parrot?
Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Publisher advertisement
A Pledge to Parents (1 page)
Letters
typeset
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
Comic Story
On Robinson Crewcut's Island (32 pages)
Synopsis
Francis and Pete spend the night in a farmer's barn. During the night a flash flood washes the barn down the river and out into the ocean. They wash up on a tropical island, inhabited by a hermit named Robinson Crewcut. The hermit has a cave full of diamonds that had washed up on the beach. Francis and Pete take a handkerchief full of diamonds and then capture the captain of a ship of smugglers. Pete impersonates the captain and tricks the crew into taking them back to the United States.
Feature
Francis the Famous Talking Mule
Genre
Fantasy
Characters
Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling; Dobbin (horse); Robinson Crewcut; Billy (parrot); Captain Bully
Pencils
Don Gunn
Inks
Don Gunn
Letters
Don Gunn
First Line
Maybe we could put up in that barn for the night.
Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
Circus Attraction (1 page)
Synopsis
Francis teases a circus owner by telling him about a talking mule, then disappears.
Feature
Francis
Genre
Fantasy
Characters
Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling
Pencils
Don Gunn
Inks
Don Gunn
Letters
Don Gunn
First Line
There is something glamorous about the circus, Francis.
Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Comic Story
The Blacksmith (1 page)
Synopsis
Francis goes to a blacksmith shop to get a new shoe.
Feature
Francis
Genre
Fantasy
Characters
Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling
Pencils
Don Gunn
Inks
Don Gunn
Letters
Don Gunn
First Line
Let's stop in here, Pete, I need a new shoe.
Notes
Back cover. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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