Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion
[Non-Heinz Edition]
(1955)
US Pictorial,
1955 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1955
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- U. S. Pictorial
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Silver Age U.S.
- Paper Stock
- Glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
Issue Notes
Date listed is copyright date.
There are two versions of this comic. The "Heinz"-version has an inside back cover listing 57 Heinz food products, and the back cover is a Junior Legionnaires Membership Certificate with a Heinz logo on it. The "non-Heinz"-version has a photo of Cuffy on the inside back cover, and the back cover is a Junior Legionnaires Membership Certificate without a Heinz logo on it.
Based on the syndicated television series which starred Buster Crabbe.
This issue has variants:
There are two versions of this comic. The "Heinz"-version has an inside back cover listing 57 Heinz food products, and the back cover is a Junior Legionnaires Membership Certificate with a Heinz logo on it. The "non-Heinz"-version has a photo of Cuffy on the inside back cover, and the back cover is a Junior Legionnaires Membership Certificate without a Heinz logo on it.
Based on the syndicated television series which starred Buster Crabbe.
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Captain Gallant; Cuffy
- Keywords
- French Foreign Legion; television adaptation
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Best Wishes to My Friend
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Buster Crabbe [as Captain Gallant]
- Keywords
- television adaptation
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Full-page photograph of Crabbe as Gallant.
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Baba (pony); Fuzzy; Josephine (camel)
- Synopsis
- Cuffy tells the reader about the French Foreign Legion and introduces the characters.
- Keywords
- French Foreign Legion; television adaptation
Indexer Notes
Possible Morisi pencils per Nick Caputo.
Josie Gets Goin'
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Fuzzy; Josephine (camel); El Nadar (camel); Ali Ben
- 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.
- Keywords
- French Foreign Legion; television adaptation
Marcher on Crever March or Die
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- historical; war
- Characters
- Louis-Philippe (King of France); General de Poyote
- Synopsis
- Origins of the French Foreign Legion.
- Keywords
- French Foreign Legion
Desert Dee-Light
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Mr. Quint; Marcia Quint; Sergeant Duval; Richard
- Synopsis
- An American traveling the desert has his daughter kidnapped. Captain Gallant and the Legion come to the rescue.
- Keywords
- French Foreign Legion; television adaptation
A Saddle for Baba
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Captain Gallant; Cuffy; Baba (pony); Fuzzy; Yusef (death); Musseim; Yahab; Sergeant Duval
- Synopsis
- Robbers steal from the supply camel train and Captain Gallant has to stop them.
- Keywords
- French Foreign Legion; television adaptation
Good Luck, Boys and Girls
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Cuffy
- Keywords
- television adaptation
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover of the "non-Heinz" edition.
Photograph of Cuffy on a donkey.
Junior Legionnaires Membership Certificate
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion / activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (photograph); ? (retouching)
- Inks
- ? (photograph); ? (retouching)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Captain Gallant; Cuffy
- Keywords
- television adaptation
Indexer 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.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
1.
Best Wishes to My Friend
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
2.
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
3.
Josie Gets Goin'
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
4.
Marcher on Crever March or Die
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5.
Desert Dee-Light
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
6.
Last Will and Testament of Georges Bohnert
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7.
A Saddle for Baba
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
8.
[Captain Gallant Television Show]
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
9.
Good Luck, Boys and Girls
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion -
10.
[Heinz Products]
Heinz -
11.
Junior Legionnaires Membership Certificate
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Paul Lefebvre
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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