Tom and Jerry #235

(April 1967)

Tom Foolery (Table of Contents: 1)

Tom and Jerry / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

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Harvey Eisenberg

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Harvey Eisenberg

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What pine has the longest needles?

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Tom Foolery

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Jerry

Synopsis

Help Jerry solve a riddle by working-out a rebus puzzle.

Reprints

• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #143 (June 1956)

Keywords

rebus puzzle; riddle

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside front cover. Top half of page. Approximately half of page. Lower half is "Droopy's Dippy Questions...".

Though the feature is called "Tom Foolery", Tom is not pictured anywhere in the panel.

Droopy's Dippy Questions... (Table of Contents: 2)

Droopy / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

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Harvey Eisenberg

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Harvey Eisenberg

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

What is most useful when it is used up?

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Droopy's Dippy Questions

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Droopy

Synopsis

Five riddles from Droopy.

Reprints

• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #143 (June 1956)

Keywords

riddles

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside front cover. Lower half of page. Approximately half of page. Upper half is "Tom Foolery".

The Feathered Cat (Table of Contents: 3)

Tom and Jerry / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Pete Alvarado

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Pete Alvarado

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Western Publishing Production Shop

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Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Wow! Get a load of this ad in today's paper!

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Tom and Jerry Western Interior Logo 1

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; pet shop delivery man; Mrs. Vansnoot

Synopsis

Tom tries to paint Jerry and Tuffy in order to sell them as white mice. They cover him with paint and feathers to turn the tables. But Tom winds up as the pet of Mrs. Vansnoot, living on t-bone steaks.

Reprints

• in Tom & Jerry (Condor, 1976 series) #45
• in Tom & Jerry (Semic, 1979 series) #6/1980 (uke 38 1980)

Keywords

cat; get-rich-quick; mice; scam; turning the tables; white mice; white paint

Indexer Notes

New story.

[Tuffy's Tetter-Totter Trick] (Table of Contents: 4)

Jerry and Tuffy / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Ken Champin

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Ken Champin

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Western Publishing Production Shop

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Ken Champin

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Let's go out and make a snowman, Jerry!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Jerry; Tuffy

Synopsis

Tuffy wants to play in the snow, but Jerry prefers staying warm inside. Using a teeter-totter poked through the front door's mail slot, Tuffy propels Jerry outside and turns him into a snowman.

Reprints

• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #128 (March 1955)

Keywords

cold; mail slot; mice; snow; snowman; teeter-totter; trickery; winter setting

Grandpa's Holiday (Table of Contents: 5)

Bertie Bird / text story / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

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Harvey Eisenberg

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Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (title lettering only); typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

"Now remember," Mother Bird whispered to Bertie Bird and Brother Billie, "Grandpa Bird isn't as young as he used to be, so look out for him and take it easy!"

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Bertie Bird; Billie Bird; Mother Bird; Grandpa Bird; Charlie Catbird

Synopsis

Mother Bird warns the children to look after Grandpa Bird on their outing, but the energetic grandfather wears them out and rescues them from Charlie Catbird.

Reprints

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

Keywords

birds; grandfather; inconsistency-between-art-and-text

Indexer Notes

The two young birds in this story are described in the text as "Bertie Bird [established as male in previous stories] and Brother Billie". Yet, in the illustration, one of them is wearing a pink bow on his/her head.

[Runaway Dogs] (Table of Contents: 6)

Big Spike and Little Tyke / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

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Harvey Eisenberg

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Western Publishing Production Shop

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Rome Siemon

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Gosh, what a job to bury all these bones, Tyke!

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Big Spike and Little Tyke [Dell Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Spike; Tyke; kitty; the master; bloodhound

Synopsis

When their master tells Spike and Tyke to "get lost," they take him at his word. On hearing that the master is offering a reward, kitty captures and returns them. The humiliated bulldogs make kitty help them bury their bones.

Reprints

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

Keywords

bloodhound; bones; cat; dogs; dressmaker's dummy; reward; runaways; shack

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand."

Gold Key Comics Club News (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Monster Art (Table of Contents: 8)

Gold Key Comics Club / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Western Publishing Production Shop

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typeset

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Can You Create a Monster?

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Gold Key Comics Club

Indexer Notes

Readers are invited to submit drawings of monsters for possible publication.

Complete the Comic (Table of Contents: 9)

Gold Key Comics Club / activity / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

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Our gag artist is in trouble again.

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Gold Key Comics Club

Indexer Notes

Readers are invited to create and submit a "final gag panel" drawing to complete an "unfinished" comic strip. One finished example is provided.

The Joke's on You (Table of Contents: 10)

Gold Key Comics Club / text article / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

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Hey, gang! Got any favorite jokes?

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Gold Key Comics Club

Characters

Gold Key Kid (first appearance)

Keywords

first appearance of recurring character(s); jokes; riddles

Indexer Notes

Jokes and riddles submitted by readers. Oddly, this page, appearing during only the second month of the Gold Key Comics Club's existence, is filled with reader-submitted jokes and riddles – with presumed actual reader’s names and home towns included. As these could not have been submitted for publication as part of the various Gold Key Comics Club “reader-participation pages” which only began in the previous month's releases (none of the other such pages herein have any reader contributions), one must believe these reader-submitted jokes and riddles were ported over from another source at Western Publishing… most likely the “Goofy Jokes” feature page from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, which featured the same type of content. Coincidently, the “Goofy Jokes” feature ceased with the start of the Gold Key Comics Club.

Just Fur Fun (Table of Contents: 11)

Tom and Jerry / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

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Harvey Eisenberg

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Harvey Eisenberg

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Western Publishing Production Shop

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Rome Siemon

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Ah! The good old winter time!

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Tom and Jerry [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; bear

Synopsis

Tom loves winter camping. Jerry and Tuffy find the house too cold and take warm refuge in Tom's fur-lined boots. The mice accidently find themselves on Tom's winter camping trip, when "the puss takes the boots" along to keep his paws (feet) warm. While in the wintery wild, Jerry and Tuffy make off with the boots to keep warm, steal Tom's food, and get him into a tangle with a bear. Using a skunk hide to scare the cat and make the fur on his back stand up, they shear off the fur to warm themselves with. Once back at home, Tom makes them knit him warm britches as restitution.

Reprints

• from M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry's Winter Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #4 (December 1955)

Keywords

battle of wits; bear; boots; camping; cat; fourth-wall-breaking; fur; hibernation; mice; winter setting; working-at-cross-purposes

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand". Fourth-Wall Flouting: Tom directly addresses the readers on page ten, panels six and seven.

What's Your Line? (Table of Contents: 12)

Gold Key Comics Club / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Try your humor I.Q. What line do you think best suits the picture below?

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Gold Key Comics Club

Indexer Notes

Readers are invited to submit gag captions for a series of provided single-panel cartoon illustrations. One finished example is provided.

100 pc Toy Soldiers Set $1.25 (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

100 Toy Soldiers / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Gold Key - The World Famous Comics (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Gold Key Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Get Nationally Famous Prizes at No Cost to You! (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Junior Sales Club of America Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Make Money Get Prizes with Fast Selling American Seeds (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

American Seeds / advertisement / 1 page (report information)