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the Hardy Boys, Joe and Frank, are fellows like yourself. They like action, plenty of it. They are as full of curiosity as a couple of bloodhounds. And just leave a mystery around and they'll be in it before you can say "Sherlock Holmes!"

It's probably, too, because they like a wisecrack almost as well as they like Aunt Gertrude's cooking, and because they think girls are all right—in their place!

It's because they can drive a car and pilot a speedboat and are at home in the great outdoors and keep their heads in an emergency (and an emergency always is just around the corner).

Well, fellows, another treat's ahead of you! There's a new series out for adventure-loving boys. It's called the RICK BRANT ADVENTURE SERIES by an author named John Blaine, and it packs all of the thrills and excitement you've come to expect in the Hardy Boys books. The heroes of this new series are Rick Brant and his pugnacious pal Scotty. They live on an island called Spindrift where Rick's dad has