Four Color #655
October 1955 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1955
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.
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.