Dunno, though I suppose Vincent Fago?s house style strayed far enough that it felt distinct anyway. The Harrison Cady Peter Rabbit definitely felt more like it was within the storybook spirit.
Avon paid for the right to have the franchise to publish "Peter Rabbit" stories in comic books. Their first 6 issues were made up of mainly Harrison Cady's 2 page newspaper strip gag "stories", plus some short fairy-tale text stories. They didn't sell well enough for Avon's liking. So, with Issue #7, Avon started their "The NEW Adventures of Peter Rabbit. They had Frank Carin draw them in a style similar to his Merry Mouse, Space Mouse, Spotty The Pup, Super Pup, etc. (really, every character he drew). They started with Peter having a ladyfriend, and set in a old-time Western setting, in which Peter was a cowboy hero, due to the popularity of film westerns, and TV Westerns, in the early 1950s. Later, they also added Peter and his girlfriend in a suburban domestic setting for half the stories, and even later, they added ventures of the couple into the Space genre, which was already occupied by Space Mouse, and Super Pup.
The series went through # 34, and the later issues had only one new Peter Rabbit story, several reprint stories, and a few Peter Rabbit 2-page newspaper strips, now drawn by Vince Fago, now that Harrison Cady had retired.
