Rusty #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeRusty #5 contains two main stories. The first features Rusty and his friend encountering a Native American and gold in a cave, leading to a confrontation that sends them fleeing. In the second story, titled "Tubby in Which Way Is Up?", Tubby climbs a mountain during autumn and encounters a group of hunters using deer as bait with headlights; after discovering their illegal "deer jacking" scheme and attempting to stop them with gunfire, Tubby manages to alert authorities. A third shorter story shows Rusty caught loitering near a city center's baseball team and taken into police custody, only to be released when his involvement in their scheme is cleared, after which he and his friends enjoy a football game between their team and Bakertown's athletic scholars.
Rusty and his pals discover an old Indian war bonnet in Tubby's attic that harbors a surprising secret—a map and deed to a gold mine hidden since the Gold Rush days. The boys convince their parents to let them travel to Colorado to track down the mine, but when they arrive at the location marked on the map, nothing's quite what it seems, and they'll need to trust new allies to uncover what really happened to Timothy Dennis O'Toole's fortune.
When Rusty and Spunky head up Mount Hildy for a fall hike, they leave clear trail markers for their friend Tubby to follow—but Tubby's talent for misreading signs sends him scrambling up the wrong fork of the mountain. After a grueling solo climb through dense forest and steep terrain, Tubby somehow arrives at the summit house, leaving his pals baffled about how he managed to get there at all. It's a comedy of confusion that proves even taking the wrong path can lead to an unexpected victory.
Clancy the Clown stumbles onto a plot to rob the circus's night receipts and sets out to stop the thieves—but when they release Bonzo, a massive gorilla, to block his pursuit, he turns the tables with a clever trick of his own. With help from his friend Toto and a well-placed costume, Clancy outsmarts the crooks and saves the day in this wild three-page adventure from 1955.
Rusty heads to a radio ham dinner with a story to tell, but a detour over Blue Mountain Road lands him in the middle of a poaching operation—and he captures the evidence on film. When the deer jackers pursue him, Rusty's short wave radio becomes his lifeline, helping him outsmart the criminals and guide state police to their capture. It's the perfect tale for the dinner table, and proof that a quick-thinking ham operator can be a hero when it counts.
When racketeers threaten to harm Johnny Harris's girlfriend Julie Peters unless he throws the championship playoff game, the star running back turns to his friends Rusty, Spunky, and Tubby for help. The boy detectives devise a plan to gather evidence of the blackmail scheme and track down the criminals' hideout. As the big game against Bakertown approaches, Rusty and the gang work to expose the fix and ensure that fair play wins the day.
When Sheriff Wilson brings Detective Lieutenant Harry Mann and his friend Mark Legion to a remote mountain lodge for a hunting trip, they discover that even in the wilderness, greed can turn deadly—especially when a fellow guest takes a mysterious fall from a cliff. As Mark suspects foul play, he and the Lieutenant must unmask the true culprit before another attempt on the injured man's life succeeds.
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