| Issue | #655 |
| Published | October 1955 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | ? |
| 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. |
| Characters | Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Don Gunn |
| Inks | Don Gunn |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." |
| 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. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Don Gunn |
| Inks | Don Gunn |
| Letters | Don Gunn |
| Notes | Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| Characters | Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling |
| Synopsis | Francis teases a circus owner by telling him about a talking mule, then disappears. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Don Gunn |
| Inks | Don Gunn |
| Letters | Don Gunn |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007) |
| Characters | Francis the Talking Mule; Peter Stirling |
| Synopsis | Francis goes to a blacksmith shop to get a new shoe. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Don Gunn |
| Inks | Don Gunn |
| Letters | Don Gunn |
| Notes | Back cover. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007) |