Four Color #444
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "New Cowboy Outfit," Tubby stumbles into a dangerous game of pretend when a trio of kids he's playing with suddenly turns real—robbing a bank and leaving him suspected. Written and illustrated by John Stanley, this 1953 Four Color comic sees Tubby on the run, pursued by police and his own guilt, until he tracks down the real culprits at a traveling rodeo. With a clever twist and a mystery rooted in disguise, the story unfolds with the kind of sharp, playful suspense only Stanley could deliver. The cover, also by John Stanley, captures the moment just before the trouble begins.
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Tubby gets involved with a trio of kids playing cowboy outside a bank. When the trio go inside they actually rob the bank instead of pretending. Tubby is suspected of being an accomplice and has to flee. Eventually Willy, Eddie, and Iggy find him hiding in the forest and he turns himself in to the police for questioning. The police don't believe him and follow him when he's released. Tubby decides to find the robbers himself. He discovers there are midgets working the rodeo in the next town. He talks his way into the rodeo and finds that those midgets are the bank robbers.
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