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Issue Details

Issue #644
Published August 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SIR WALTER RALEIGH, No. 644." Code number is W.R.O.S. #644-558. Copyright 1955 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Based on the 1955 movie "The Virgin Queen."

Cover Details - "Sir Walter Raleigh"

Characters Sir Walter Raleigh (as played by Richard Todd, photo); Queen Elizabeth I (as played by Bette Davis, photo)
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Pencils ? (photos)
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1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Sir Walter Raleigh"

Characters Sir Walter Raleigh (as played by Richard Todd, photo); Queen Elizabeth I (as played by Bette Davis, photo); Sir Christopher Hatton (as played by Robert Douglas, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the story.
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Pencils ? (photos)
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Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos from the movie and partial cast list.

34 page story "Sir Walter Raleigh"

Characters Sir Walter Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth I
Synopsis Walter Raleigh wheels and deals his way into an audience with Queen Elizabeth I in order to ask for ships to sail to the New World, but gets entangled in palace intrigue.
Genre period
Pencils Tony Sgroi
Inks Tony Sgroi
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Based on the 1955 Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Virgin Queen." Same artist as FC #505 and FC #540 (credit from original unknown indexer). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)