Tom and Jerry
#309
[Gold Key]
(August 1978)
Western,
1962 Series
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-06
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Barcode
- 0335009005808
- Dell/Western Eight-Digit Code
- 90058-808
- Editing
- Del Connell (editor); Larry Mayer (art director)
Issue Notes
All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint.
Cover code: 90058-808. Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (808 = August, 1978). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (786 = June, 1978).
This issue has variants:
Cover code: 90058-808. Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (808 = August, 1978). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (786 = June, 1978).
This issue has variants:
[Jerry Horns In]
Tom and Jerry / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Inks
- Harvey Eisenberg
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry
- Synopsis
- Jerry startles Tom while riding a roller skate equipped with a horn.
- Reprints
-
from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #130 (May 1955) [altered]
-
- Keywords
- art or lettering modification or omission; horn; roller skate; unwelcome surprise
Indexer Notes
For this issue, the entire cover image has been "straightened" to show Jerry zooming along on his roller skate on a flat sidewalk surface. The original printing for Tom and Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 Series) #130 (May 1955) and its first reprint in Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 Series) #229 (April 1966) show Jerry riding his skate down a sidewalk incline (thus, accounting for his speed?) with the frightened, jumping Tom at a similar angle. Owing to the times, a UPC box is also added to the lower left corner of the cover of Tom and Jerry #309.
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[Who Watches the (Night) Watchman?]
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
- Here, kitty, kitty! Come catch mousie!
- Feature Logo
Tom and Jerry [Dell Broad Lettering]- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; toy store manager; lots of dancing mice
- Synopsis
- Tom gets a job as a toy store night watchman catching mice at a dollar a mouse. A one-gross carton of toy dancing mice, a mess of live ones, and Jerry and Tuffy's antics complicate matters.
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #130 (May 1955)
-
- Keywords
- cat; escalating events; mice; night watchman; toys
[Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet]
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
- I'm in a cake-bakin' mood today!
- Feature Logo
Tom and Jerry [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
- Synopsis
- Tom bakes a very delicate cake, that could fall with the slightest jarring, while Jerry and Tuffy become determined to noisily crack a large number of walnuts they've just harvested.
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #131 (June 1955)
-
- Keywords
- baking; cake; cat; fourth-wall-breaking; mice; noise; nuts; working-at-cross-purposes
Indexer Notes
Fourth-Wall Flouting: Jerry directly addresses the readers on page ten, panel six, to close the story.
The gags in this story, as Tom more and more desperately tries to keep the quiet – lest his cake be ruined, are evocative of the very first Tom and Jerry animated theatrical short: “Puss Gets the Boot” (1940).
[The Game's a Foot!]
Jerry and Tuffy / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ken Champin
- Inks
- Ken Champin
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Chase Craig (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Watch out for that foot, Tuffy!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Jerry; Tuffy; lots of walking humans (faces unseen)
- Synopsis
- In a crowded city, Jerry and Tuffy are always underfoot, and at risk of being stepped on. A tiny nearby deserted island would seem to be the answer to their problems... but is it?
- Reprints
- from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #123 (October 1954)
-
in Expressinho (Edições Jornal Expresso, 1994 series) #9 (24 de Setembro de 1994)
-
- Keywords
- being underfoot; boat; desert island; mice; pedestrians; sea or island setting; walking
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Jerry Horns In]
Tom and Jerry -
1.
[Who Watches the (Night) Watchman?]
Tom and Jerry -
2.
[Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet]
Tom and Jerry -
3.
[The Game's a Foot!]
Jerry and Tuffy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Thomas Johnson
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Joe Torcivia
- Jim Van Dore
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