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Issue Details

Issue #441
Published December 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "FEARLESS FAGAN, No. 441." Code number is F.F.O.S. #441-5212. Copyright 1952 by Western Printing & Lithographing. Based on the 1952 M-G-M movie "Fearless Fagan." First and only Four Color issue.

Cover Details - "Fearless Fagan"

Characters Floyd Hilston; Fearless Fagan (lion)
Genre humor; animal
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Letters typeset
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Fearless Fagan foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Preview"

Characters Fearless Fagan (lion, photos); Carleton Carpenter (as Floyd Hilston, photos)
Synopsis Preview of main story.
Genre humor; animal
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Actor Carleton Carpenter is identified by his name in the captions, not the character's name. Two photos from the movie with typeset text.

34 page story "Fearless Fagan"

Characters Fearless Fagan (lion); Floyd Hilston; Abby Ames
Synopsis Lion-tamer Floyd Hilston is drafted into the Army. Not wanting to leave his pet lion, Fearless Fagan, he keeps him the woods near the base. One afternoon he and Fagan are discovered by actress Abby Ames, who is playing a show at the base. She guides the Army to Fagan, but they think it's a publicity stunt and tow Fagan and his cage to the base. After some misadventures, Fagan has to be transferred back to the circus, but he attacks a cruel lion-tamer during the transfer and is wounded. Fagan escapes into the forest, where he is sought by Floyd and Abby.
Genre humor; animal
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Letters Don Gunn
Notes Based on the 1952 M-G-M movie "Fearless Fagan". Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)