Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #131
In "The Secret of the Rocks," drought and debt threaten Dave’s ranch, a place whispered to hold the buried treasure of an ancient Aztec legend. When Roy arrives with his friends Tad and Pat, their journey into a limestone cavern leads to a tense showdown with wild boars, a hidden flintlock, and a shocking discovery beneath the earth—before a collapsing roof traps them inside. Written by Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by John Buscema with inks by Mario Acquaviva, this 1955 adventure blends frontier grit with mystery, all wrapped in a free cover by an unknown artist.
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Drought. Mortgage. Dave to sell ranch, locale of a legendary Aztec treasure the earth swallowed up. Roy visits. Tad rides with Roy. Bullet fights a wild boar. Roy, Pat, Tad treed by a herd of angry javelinas. They disperse. Bullet bays a boar in a partly collapsed limestone cavern. They move the big rock. Trigger brings rope. They descend. Bullet pursues the boar into a hole. Roy follows, kills the attacking boar, finds old human bones. Pat finds a flintlock. Tad finds the Aztec gold. Flashlight goes out. Roy replaces batteries. Roof crashes, closes exit. They blast free with cartridge powder.
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