Boys' and Girls' March of Comics #154 [Poll-Parrot Shoes]

(January 1957)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Tom Foolishness (Table of Contents: 2)

Tom and Jerry / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi, Stoop! What's the scoop?

Feature Logo

Tom and Jerry [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 2]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; the mistress

Synopsis

Stumbling upon a book titled "The Sacred Cats of the Orient", where "...cats are treated as royalty", Tom decides to carry himself in royal fashion demanding food, luxury, and pampering. Jerry and Tuffy do everything they can to undermine Tom's delusion.

Keywords

cat; exaggerating one’s importance; mice; pampering; reused story; royalty; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

This is a remake of the Tom and Jerry story in Our Gang with Tom and Jerry (Dell, 1947 Series) #57 (April 1949), but removing the character of "Mammy-Two-Shoes".

Two tiers per page.

[To Market, To Market To Sell a Fat Pig] (Table of Contents: 3)

Tom and Jerry / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tom is taking this pig to market to sell for one dollar a pound.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; pig

Synopsis

Add the numbers that form the drawing-outline of the pig to learn the weight of the pig, and add them up to see how many dollars Tom will receive for the pig.

Keywords

numbers puzzle

[Tree-Rebus] (Table of Contents: 4)

Tom and Jerry / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On which side of the house should Tom plant his tree?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

Synopsis

Help Tom solve a rebus puzzle that will reveal where he should plant his little tree.

Reprints

• in Golden Comics Digest (Western, 1969 series) #25 (September 1972)

Keywords

rebus puzzle

[Riddle Me Six!] (Table of Contents: 5)

Tom and Jerry / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Why is a pig in the parlor like a house on fire?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Droopy; Barney Bear; Flip (of Flip 'n' Dip); pig; tiger

Synopsis

Tom and Jerry host six riddles for readers to solve.

Keywords

riddles

[Telephone Tom] (Table of Contents: 6)

Tom and Jerry / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text

If you place the first letter of each of these objects in the proper space, you'll know what the telephone operator said to Tom!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; telephone operator

Synopsis

Associate pictures and the first letter of what the pictures represent, to spell-out the telephone operator's message to Tom.

Keywords

word and picture puzzle

Indexer Notes

The telephone operator in this puzzle is the same character design as the mistress in the issue's lead story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[Jerry Rides a Pencil] (Table of Contents: 8)

Tom and Jerry / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Jerry

Synopsis

Jerry bounces along on a rubber-eraser-tipped pencil, as if it were a pogo stick.

Reprints

• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #142 (May 1956)

Keywords

alternative uses; bouncing; mouse; pencil; repurposed art

Indexer Notes

Two-thirds of this back cover is reserved for the logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium. This space can be blank if no named sponsor. The remaining vertical third of the cover space (nearest to the binding) consists of an upper rectangle containing an illustration of Jerry riding a pencil by Harvey Eisenberg, repurposed from the cover of Tom and Jerry (Dell, 1949 Series) #142 (May 1956), and a lower rectangle for the "March of Comics" logo.