'''Totor''' is a Belgian boy scout who travels to the USA to visit his uncle Pad Hatt and aunt Save Hatt in Rolmopcity, Texas.

Along the way he is pulled overboard by a shark and then thrown onto an American submarine which takes him to New York City. Totor is awed by the skyscrapers and is unintentionally hit by a car which flings him into a passing stranger who turns out to be a criminal named John Blood.

After Totor receives a $5,000 reward for the gangster he takes a train to his uncle's ranch in Rolmopcity. His uncle picks him up at the station and on their way back a group of Native Americans hold them up. Totor manages to distract the Natives and the two of them escape. However, a few hours later at the ranch, the same tribe kidnaps Totor in revenge.

Standing tied to a torture stake Totor is made into a target for knives, axes and arrows. One of the arrows cut the ropes binding him and when the Chief draws close to scalp the young boy, Totor digs his feet into the Sachem's stomach and makes a quick getaway into a river, pretending to have drowned. Underwater, he finds an old chest full of countless jewels and buries them at the base of a boulder nearby.

A trapper in a canoe takes Totor up the river. Leaving the trapper, Totor goes back to the ranch to find it deserted. As he searches the place a hand reaches out and pulls him through a doorway where a fierce brawl ensues in the darkness. Totor is victorious, and throws his three captors out of the building. He discovers his uncle tied to a chair; Totor frees him, and Pad tells his nephew that the bandits kidnapped his aunt Save. Totor suddenly has an idea to use the treasure he found as a ransom for his aunt.

The two of them set out to go fetch it, but along the way a criminal steals their map while they sleep. After discovering the loss of their jewels they follow the thief's unique footprints for a few miles. When they see another set of footprints join the first and then head up into some mountains, Totor continues on his own. Having eluded several Native sentries he spies the chest in the hands of the Chief.

After recovering the box and outrunning the Natives back to his uncle, they hurriedly head home. There they find a ransom note from the leader of the bandits, Jim Blackcat, saying to meet them under a big fir tree that day or they would kill his aunt. Totor rushes to the rendezvous where he overwhelms the criminals and orders them to tell him where they are keeping his aunt hostage. After a heroic rescue and an emotional reunion between his aunt and uncle, he finds out that it is time for him to go back to Belgium.

Once back, he tells everyone of his adventures and wistfully yearns for more.

*The Adventures of Totor (July 1926 – July 1929)

*Totor would wind up becoming the predecessor to Hergé's Tintin, who debuted the year it ended.
*As of January 1, 2022, Totor and other characters appearing in the original 1927 Belgian comic strips entered the public domain in the United States. Subsequent Totor works entered the public domain yearly until January 1, 2025 when the final strips from 1929 entered the public domain. However, Totor remains under copyright in his original country, Belgium, and other countries utilizing terms that expire after a set period of time following the author's death.
*For Alain Berenboom, lawyer for the Hergé Foundation, according to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention Berne Convention], Totor and other creations by Hergé will enter the public domain in 2034, 50 years after the author's death. Although this is not true as Jennifer Jenkins of Duke University also stated the URRA from 1996 that restored copyrights of foreign works stated foreign works have 95+ years in the United States and that the Berne Convention doesn't change this.

*[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Totor Wikipedia]
* [https://tintinfanon.fandom.com/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Rotor The Adventures of Rotor]
* [https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/#section4 Center For Study Of The Public Domain]
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