(October 1955)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue 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.
[no title indexed]
Francis the Famous Talking Mule / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Don Gunn
- Inks:
- Don Gunn
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
A Pledge to Parents
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."
[On Robinson Crewcut's Island]
Francis the Famous Talking Mule / comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Gunn
- Inks:
- Don Gunn
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Don Gunn
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling
- 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.
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Circus Attraction]
Francis / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Gunn
- Inks:
- Don Gunn
- Letters:
- Don Gunn
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling
- Synopsis:
- Francis teases a circus owner by telling him about a talking mule, then disappears.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
[The Blacksmith]
Francis / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Gunn
- Inks:
- Don Gunn
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Don Gunn
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling
- Synopsis:
- Francis goes to a blacksmith shop to get a new shoe.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
A Pledge to Parents
-
2.
[On Robinson Crewcut's Island]
Francis the Famous Talking Mule -
3.
[Circus Attraction]
Francis -
4.
[The Blacksmith]
Francis
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- Merlin Haas
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- John P. Selegue
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- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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