Tom and Jerry
#295
[Gold Key]
(June 1977)
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Barcode
- 0335009005806
- Editing
- Del Connell (editor); Larry Mayer (art director)
Issue Notes
[Fishing Stowaways]
Tom and Jerry / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
- Synopsis
- Jerry and Tuffy fish from Tom's creel.
- Reprints
-
from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #146 (September 1956)
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- Keywords
- art or lettering modification or omission; fishing; notable coloring modification
Indexer Notes
Image is flipped from its original printing in Tom and Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 Series) #146 (September 1956) and its prior reprinting in Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 Series) #236 (June 1967) which had Tom facing right, to Tom facing left - with all illustration elements flipped accordingly.
This was most likely done to accommodate the UPC code box, which would have interfered with Jerry and Tuffy's fishing lines as previously rendered. Tom's fishing line is also shortened for the same reason resulting in a change in perspective.
The separation of the water and sky (now more garishly colored) is now delineated with a black inked line, where in the previous printings water and sky simply "blended into one another".
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[Trade Rat Troubles]
Tom and Jerry / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somebody's been taking my stuff and leaving a lot of junk in its place!
- Feature Logo
Tom and Jerry- 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
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #146 (September 1956)
-
- Keywords
- best-laid-plans; fair trade; grindstone; trade rat; trickery; unfair trade
Indexer Notes
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!
[Contest(ed) Winnings]
Tom and Jerry / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Rome Siemon
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pussycat, why don't you go to work and pay your bills?
- Feature Logo
- Tom and Jerry
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; bill collector; Nifty Nippy Cheese Company representative; puppet vendor; realtor; house-buying couple
- Synopsis
- Already at odds over who will pay the bills, Jerry's Nifty Nippy Cheese contest winnings cause additional friction among Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy.
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #147 (October 1956)
-
- Keywords
- bills; contest winnings; enemies-joining-forces; escalating events; friends-turned-enemies; revenge; uncharacteristic behavior
[Gold is Where You Find It... and Sometimes Where You Don't!]
Wuff the Prairie Dog / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Veve Risto
- Inks
- Veve Risto
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Veve Risto
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- School is out for another day -- Time to run, have fun and play!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Wuff the Prairie Dog; Sammy Squirrel; Charlie Coyote; gold miner; assayer; two prospectors
- Synopsis
- Charlie Coyote tries to lure Wuff and Sammy into his clutches by painting a bunch of rocks to look like gold.
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #147 (October 1956)
-
- Keywords
- desert setting; gold; gold mine; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; rocks; trickery
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[Fishing Stowaways]
Tom and Jerry -
1.
[Trade Rat Troubles]
Tom and Jerry -
2.
[Contest(ed) Winnings]
Tom and Jerry -
3.
[Gold is Where You Find It... and Sometimes Where You Don't!]
Wuff the Prairie Dog
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Thomas Johnson
- Jim Stangas
- Joe Torcivia
- Jim Van Dore
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