4 while henry bowers , victor criss , belch huggins , peter gordon , and a half-retarded high-school boy named steve sadler ( known as moose , after the character in the archie comics ) were chasing a winded mike hanlon through the trainyard and toward the barrens about half a mile away , bill and the rest of the losers '' club were still sitting on the bank of the kenduskeag , pondering their nightmare problem .