"Introducing the three new musketeers of crime detection -- the three most dauntless hawkshaws who ever put a sneakered foot into a murderer's death trap -- only to kick the murderer in the teeth...Rusty, Tubby, and Spunky! It has been said that a boy can't do a man's job...but the kind of job the Boy Detectives do on law-breakers would arouse the envy of a Sherlock Holmes and a J. Edgar Hoover! From the beginning, their teamwork and affection for each other welded them into this country's youngest, funniest, and most effective -- for their size and age -- anti-crime unit!"
Rusty is Rusty Adams, a ham radio operator who also likes to listen to the police radio; not sure how old he is but he drives an old jalopy. Spunky is Spunky Smith, a pint-sized orphan who hopes to get away from his Aunt Sabrina and Uncle Lem by joining the carnival. Tubby O'Toole is working for the carnival, bringing water to the elephants. The three meet and join forces as the Boy Detectives when Mushy and Al, two crooks, attack Knocky, another crook for money Knocky has had hidden.
This first issue (of six total) details four cases of the young sleuths.
"The Haunted Mill" The boys investigate a Haunted Mill on the edge of town and encounter a sheet-wearing ghost.
"Mystery Man in the Clubhouse" An escaped convict hides in the clubhouse and tries to convince them he's innocent of bank robbery.
"Mystery in the Cave" A two-page text story. the boys find a half-starved Newfoundland dog and her five new-born puppies in a cave. They recue her and return her to her owners.
"Mystery of the Indian Arrowheads!" The team befriends a boy whose land contains arrowheads and a dark secret.
As far as children's detective stories go, these are pretty good. The issue was written and drawn by Carl Hubbell, and published by Good Comics, a minor publisher which exited for only one year and whose only other title was Johnny Law, Sky Ranger.
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