Tom and Jerry
#297
[Gold Key]
(August 1977)
Western,
1962 Series
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1977-06
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Barcode
- 0335009005808
- Dell/Western Eight-Digit Code
- 90058-708
- Editing
- Del Connell (editor); Larry Mayer (art director)
Issue Notes
All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint.
Cover code: 90058-708. Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (708 = August, 1977). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (776 = June, 1977).
This issue has variants:
Cover code: 90058-708. Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (708 = August, 1977). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (776 = June, 1977).
This issue has variants:
[Co(ne)-Conspirators]
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 sneak off with soda-jerk Tom's ice cream cones.
- Reprints
-
from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #147 (October 1956)
-
- Keywords
- ice cream cones; notable coloring modification; soda fountain; unexpected intrusion
Indexer Notes
On this reprinted (and also recolored) cover, the lower lip within Jerry's muzzle is colored brown like the rest of his fur, rather than the "flesh-colored" area it is in both the original printing from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 Series) #147 (October 1956) and an earlier reprint in Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 Series) #237 (August 1967). ...This new coloring wipes-out Jerry's "smile" and makes it look like he's struggling under the weight of the empty ice cream cone he's walked off with.
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[The Pains of Painting]
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
- Yaaa -- You can't squirt me!
- Feature Logo
Tom and Jerry- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
- Synopsis
- Jerry and Tuffy blame their mischievous ways on their being "underprivileged", so Tom takes them to an art museum to "bring out their better qualities". There, the mice are taken with a mural of modern art and Tom, in an unusual gesture of generosity and kindness, buys them a complete set of paints and other art supplies to stimulate their newfound creativity. For his troubles, Tom is driven daffy by the art-obsessed mice painting their modernist-murals all over the house.
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #145 (August 1956)
-
- Keywords
- best of intentions; modern art; painting; too-much-of-a-good-thing
Indexer Notes
Uncharacteristically, Tom is the story's sympathetic character.
[Mexican Jumping Mice]
Tom and Jerry / comic story / 5 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
- Those snoring mice kept me awake all night!
- Feature Logo
Tom and Jerry [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Mexican customs officer; Mexican mice; Mexicat
- Synopsis
- Fed up with Jerry and Tuffy's snoring, Tom scoops-up the mice and dumps them in Mexico, locking them in a shed with a bunch of Mexican mice. He then learns that a Mexican cat's master will pay one peso for each mouse caught, and doubles back for Jerry and Tuffy and their new Mexican mouse friends - who've become much harder to catch for having swallowed Mexican jumping beans. To complicate matters, the mice have hopped across the border into the United States.
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #145 (August 1956)
-
- Keywords
- best-laid-plans; cat; customs; desert setting; jumping beans; Mexico; mice; sleep problems
[Bats and Rats]
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
- Hey, where have you two been all day?
- Feature Logo
- Tom and Jerry
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; two bats, crowd of customers
- Synopsis
- From a distance, Tom mistakes two bats for Jerry and Tuffy and believes the mice have learned how to fly.
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #149 (December 1956)
-
- Keywords
- bats; flying; wrong impression
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Co(ne)-Conspirators]
Tom and Jerry -
1.
[The Pains of Painting]
Tom and Jerry -
2.
[Mexican Jumping Mice]
Tom and Jerry -
3.
[Bats and Rats]
Tom and Jerry
This issue was modified by, among others
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Stangas
- Joe Torcivia
- Jim Van Dore
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