Tweety and Sylvester #8

(March-May 1955)

[It's in the Bag] (Table of Contents: 1)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Lynn Karp

Inks

Lynn Karp

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey, Tweety! Where are you going with that bag?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; pack of dogs

Synopsis

Sylvester's theft of a bag from Tweety backfires when he discovers the contents of the bag.

Reprints

• in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #7/1958 ([august] 1958), #9/1958 ([1. oktober] 1958)
• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #4 (November 1966)

Keywords

best-laid-plans; bird; cat; unwelcome surprise

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside front cover.

Camera Shy (Table of Contents: 2)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Ken Champin

Inks

Vic Lockman

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Vic Lockman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'm going to have the photographer take a picture of you, Tweety! Won't that be nice?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny; photographer; cab driver; newspaper reporter; newspaper photographer

Synopsis

Granny drops off Tweety at a photographer's studio where Sylvester happens to work, which leads to the inevitable.

Reprints

• in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #14/1958 ([10. desember] 1958)
• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #4 (November 1966)

Keywords

bird; cat; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; photography

Circus Capers (Table of Contents: 3)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Ken Champin

Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, dear me! I'm so bored sitting in my wittle cage all day! I long for a life of adventure!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny; two circus roustabouts; elephant; seals; seal trainer; ringmaster

Synopsis

Tweety leaves home to join a circus and Granny sends Sylvester to bring him back home.

Reprints

• in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #13/1958 ([26. november] 1958)
• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #4 (November 1966)

Keywords

bird; cat; circus setting; elephant; misnamed character; quest for excitement; seals; series of mishaps

Indexer Notes

Throughout the story Tweety and Sylvester refer to Granny as "Grandma".

Tat Tonic (Table of Contents: 4)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Ken Champin

Inks

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Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, Sylvester, it's time for you to take your cat tonic!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny; pet supply store owner; two cat tonic factory workers; Dr. Jones (veterinarian)

Synopsis

A slapstick masterpiece where Sylvester, who tries desperately to avoid taking his cat tonic, swallows far more of it than he could ever imagine... over and over again. Tweety, of course, being the cat-tonic-catalyst for all the involuntary ingesting.

Reprints

• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #4 (November 1966)

Keywords

bird; cat; cat tonic; escalating events; unsuccessful avoidance

Why Birds Leave Home (Table of Contents: 5)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

William F. Nolan; Charles Beaumont

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Vic Lockman

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Vic Lockman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tweety, you stay here while I go downtown to the department store to have your cage fixed!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny; cab driver; department store customers

Synopsis

Granny goes downtown to get Tweety's cage repaired, leaving him alone at home with Sylvester. Sylvester chases Tweety, who flies downtown to find Granny, and Tweety follows him to a department store ("Snears & Sawbucks"), where the chase continues through the toy department.

Reprints

• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #4 (November 1966)

Keywords

bird; cat; department store; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; toy department

Indexer Notes

Credit for script from "The Work of Charles Beaumont" (1986) by William F. Nolan.

[(Not So) Special Delivery] (Table of Contents: 6)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Lynn Karp

Inks

Lynn Karp

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here comes the mailman!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat

Synopsis

Sylvester gets a surprise when he fetches the mail.

Reprints

• in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #15/1958 ([22. desember] 1958)
• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #4 (November 1966)

Keywords

bird; cat; mail delivery; unwelcome surprise

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside back cover.

[Here's the Windup... And Here's the Hitch!] (Table of Contents: 7)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Lynn Karp

Inks

Lynn Karp

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh dear, I wish I had someone to hold this yarn so I could wind it into a ball!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny

Synopsis

Tweety tricks Sylvester into holding Granny's yarn so she can wind it into a ball.

Reprints

• in Daffy (AS Film Inform, 1958 series) #13/1958 ([26. november] 1958)
• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #4 (November 1966)

Keywords

bird; cat; trickery; winding yarn

Indexer Notes

Color on back cover.