- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Old Business
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Uncredited text feature. Topics include additional story and art credits, Gladstone's move to Prescott, AZ, and a cover price increase to 95 cents.
- Keywords
- background information; editorial feature
Black and white on inside front cover.
- Script
- Carl Barks (credited)
- Pencils
- Carl Barks (credited)
- Inks
- Carl Barks (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Garé Barks
- Job Number
- US 15
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How can I invent things with that awful yowling going on?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper (introduction); Basso (cat); Profundo (cat); Felina (unseen cat)
- Synopsis
- Jarred by cat yowlings outside his window, Gyro trains his language translator on the tranquility-befouling felines only to find that they are "1950s jive-talking hep cats" engaged in a crooning competition to win the affections of a lady cat. What's a noise-rattled inventor to do... join them?
- Reprints
- Keywords
- cats; competition; crooning; first appearance of recurring character(s); inventor; language translation; need-for-peace-and-quiet; one-upping; romantic rivalry
First appearance of Gyro's Helper.