- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Letters
- Harvey Eisenberg (logo and sound effects)
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry
- Synopsis
- Tom learns that ice cream and fans don't mix.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- fan; ice cream; summer heat
Pantomime. Black and white on inside front cover.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Harvey Eisenberg
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somebody's been taking my stuff and leaving a lot of junk in its place!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Trader Rat
- Synopsis
- Tom has become the victim of a trade rat, who takes something he wants and leaves something else in its place. When the trade rat is through with Tom, Jerry and Tuffy continue “trading” random objects for Tom’s food and blame the trade rat.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- best-laid-plans; fair trade; grindstone; trade rat; trickery; unfair trade
"Reprinted by popular demand"
Tom enacts a particularly cruel and unusual punishment on the mice in the story's final panel - forcing them to eat a grindstone (painted to look like a wheel of cheese) by chiseling it down piece by piece.
JERRY: But, Tom, we can't eat THIS!
TOM: It may take A LONG TIME, but you can do it!
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Harvey Eisenberg (title lettering only); typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Chee!" Bertie Bird twittered excitedly as he scampered back to his home in Apple Tree Lane.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bertie Bird; Billie Bird; Mr. Pallet (art store owner); Joe (delivery man)
- Synopsis
- Bertie and Billie Bird fly into an art store to see a painting of the birds’ great-grandmother Bertha Bird.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- birds; misnamed character; painting; sneaking-a-peak
The name of the character Billie Bird is spelled "Billy Bird" in this story.
- Script
- Vic Lockman
- Pencils
- Pete Alvarado
- Inks
- Vic Lockman ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Rome Siemon
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ‘Bye, Pop! Little Quacker has invited me over for a dip in his pond!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Spike; Tyke; Little Quacker; Health Department worker; farmer
- Synopsis
- The Health Department has drained all the local ponds, which had become a breeding place for mosquitoes, leaving Little Quacker homeless. Spike and Tyke try to help.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- displacement; duckpond; MGM character crossover
New story.
Story is billed as "Spike and Tyke with Little Quacker".
Story is interrupted between pages 3 and 4 for four pages of "Gold Key Comics Club" material, encompassing the four pages of the centerfold.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We're snowed under with the gag lines you sent us and while we're deciding which ones are the best, we're printing some of the original cartoons with our own lines. Were yours funnier?
- Feature Logo
- Keywords
- gag captions
Readers are invited to submit gag captions for a series of provided single-panel cartoon illustrations.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Powerful, treacherous, frightening, that's what a monster should be. If you can imagine such an awesome creature, draw one.
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- Keywords
- drawings; monsters
Readers are invited to submit drawings of monsters for possible publication.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Rome Siemon
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Trappin' season opens tomorrow, and I’m all set to catch myself a mess of rabbits!
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; game warden (anthropomorphic bulldog)
- Synopsis
- With trapping season one day away, Jerry and Tuffy try to prevent Tom from trapping “poor defenseless little bunnies”, by rigging things so that it appears to a game warden that Tom is trapping out-of-season.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- inventive excuses; rabbits; trapping; trickery
"Reprinted by popular demand" The last balloon of the final panel is lettered differently from the rest of the story. Possibly Harvey Eisenberg’s lettering in this balloon? Both this reprint and the original printing display the same lettering inconsistency.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did you send us funny endings for these short comics? We'll print them soon. Meanwhile, here are our final gag panels.
- Feature Logo
- Keywords
- gags
Readers are invited to create and submit a "final gag panel" drawing to complete an "unfinished" comic strip. Editors' examples are provided.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here's a whole pageful of jokes for your enjoyment sent in by readers like you.
- Feature Logo
- Keywords
- jokes; riddles
Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.
Unlike most such pages, this entry is not hosted by the Gold Key Kid.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Droopy; Droopy’s master; gopher (arm and hand only)
- Synopsis
- Tired of fetching a stick, Droopy drops it down a gopher hole – only to have the gopher throw it back.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- dogs; fetch-the-stick
Pantomime. Black and white on inside back cover.