Tweety and Sylvester #9

(June-August 1955)

Distinguished Achievement Award (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Dell Comics Pledge to Parents / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Tweety's Good Turn (Table of Contents: 2)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Fallberg; ?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Tony Strobl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

This cake ought to win a prize at the church social!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; Granny; lots of mice; lots of cats; dog; burglar

Synopsis

Granny threatens to cast lazy Sylvester out because he hasn’t caught any mice. Tweety, observing “Be Kind to Cats Week”, decides to help the Puddy Tat keep his home by providing him with some mice to catch. When hapless Sylvester can’t get the job done, Tweety recruits more cats to help him – followed by a dog to rout the cats, and more.

Reprints

• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #5 (February 1967)

Keywords

best of intentions; catching mice; escalating events; wreaking havoc

Choo-Choo Trouble (Table of Contents: 3)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Fallberg; ?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Tony Strobl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, doodness! I hope I don't miss the twain to Pinfeather Junction!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; various train passengers; baggage handler; crateful of canaries

Synopsis

Tweety must take a train trip, but has forgotten his ticket money. Conductor Sylvester will have no free-riders.

Reprints

• in Daffy (Allers Forlag, 1959 series) #25/1959 (9. desember 1959)
• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #5 (February 1967)

Keywords

battle of wits; series of mishaps; train

The Tweety-Counter (Table of Contents: 4)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Fallberg; ?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Tony Strobl; ?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hmm! This might be worth looking into!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; prospectors' supply store clerk; bear; two uranium miners

Synopsis

Tweety develops hiccups when in proximity to uranium. Would-be prospector Sylvester decides to exploit the situation.

Reprints

• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #5 (February 1967)

Keywords

get-rich-quick; prospecting; uranium; wild goose chase

Hook or Crook (Table of Contents: 5)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Fallberg; ?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Tony Strobl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I guess fishing is just about me favorite occupation!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat; lots of fishermen; game warden

Synopsis

Sylvester finds Tweety parked at the Puddy Tat's "secret fishing spot". In his efforts to remove the bird, he repeatedly runs afoul of the game warden.

Reprints

• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #5 (February 1967)

Keywords

fishing; game warden; series of mishaps

[Curiosity Klonks the Cat] (Table of Contents: 6)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Tony Strobl

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The best time to nab him is when he's working!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat

Synopsis

Sylvester is curious about the project Tweety is working on.

Reprints

• in Tweety and Sylvester (Western, 1963 series) #5 (February 1967)

Keywords

curiosity; sorry-you-asked

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside back cover.

[Tooth Pulling] (Table of Contents: 7)

Tweety and Sylvester / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony Strobl

Inks

Tony Strobl

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tweety Bird; Sylvester Pussycat

Synopsis

Tweety pulls Sylvester’s front tooth by opening a door where one end of a string is tied around the doorknob and the other end is tied around Sylvester’s front tooth. Hungry Sylvester grabs Tweety and throws him “down the hatch”, but Tweety escapes through the gap left by Sylvester’s now-missing front tooth.

Keywords

door; escape; minimalist style; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; tooth-pulling

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. This gag page is presented in an unusually minimalist style for Dell Comics of the period. There is no logo, no title, and no background scenery or props beyond the free-floating door and its attached string. The background of every panel is colored light blue in its entirety, presaging the “modern design” look Western would later institute in its Gold Key Comics of 1962-1963. The rightmost third of the bottom (4th) tier is occupied by the “Dell Comics Pledge to Parents”. Color on back cover.