Four Color #455
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Race Track Trick," a desperate hotel guest hides a map to his brother’s gold mine inside a bottle, dropping it into a pile below his window. When two crooks come looking for it the next morning, Johnny steps in—only to find the pile gone, taken by a junk man building a bottle house five miles out of town. The surprising twist? That junk man is Mule Beardsley, an old friend of Johnny’s. The story, illustrated by Jesse Marsh, is a taut, clever mystery from a 10-cent comic in 1953.
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A hotel guest hides a map to his dead brother's gold mine in a bottle and lowers it to a pile of bottles below the window of his room. The next morning two crooks rough him up looking for the map before Johnny interrupts them. After telling Johnny his story, the man finds that the pile of bottles has been taken by a junk man who's building a bottle house in the desert five miles out of town. The house builder turns out to be Mule Beardsley, an old friend of Johnny's.
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