Top Comics Tom & Jerry #1

(July 1967)

[A Big Fan of Ice Cream] (Table of Contents: 1)

Tom and Jerry / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (logo and sound effects)

Feature Logo

Tom and Jerry [Dell Broad Lettering]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry

Synopsis

Tom learns that ice cream and fans don't mix.

Reprints

• from Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 series) #236 (June 1967)
which is reprinted
• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #146 (September 1956)

Keywords

fan; ice cream; summer heat

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Black and white on inside front cover.

[Trade Rat Troubles] (Table of Contents: 2)

Tom and Jerry / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Somebody's been taking my stuff and leaving a lot of junk in its place!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Trader Rat

Synopsis

Tom has become the victim of a trade rat, who takes something he wants and leaves something else in its place. When the trade rat is through with Tom, Jerry and Tuffy continue “trading” random objects for Tom’s food and blame the trade rat.

Reprints

• from Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 series) #236 (June 1967)
which is reprinted
• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #146 (September 1956)

Keywords

best-laid-plans; fair trade; grindstone; trade rat; trickery; unfair trade

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand"

Tom enacts a particularly cruel and unusual punishment on the mice in the story's final panel - forcing them to eat a grindstone (painted to look like a wheel of cheese) by chiseling it down piece by piece.

JERRY: But, Tom, we can't eat THIS!
TOM: It may take A LONG TIME, but you can do it!

The Period Portrait (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

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Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (title lettering only); typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

"Chee!" Bertie Bird twittered excitedly as he scampered back to his home in Apple Tree Lane.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Bertie Bird; Billy Bird; Mr. Pallet (art store owner); Joe (delivery man)

Synopsis

Bertie and Billy Bird fly into an art store to see a painting of the birds’ great-grandmother Bertha Bird.

Reprints

• from Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 series) #236 (June 1967)
which is reprinted
• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #146 (September 1956)

Keywords

birds; misnamed character; painting; sneaking-a-peak

Indexer Notes

The name of the character Billie Bird is spelled "Billy Bird" in this story.

A Ponderous Problem (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Vic Lockman

Pencils

Pete Alvarado

Inks

Vic Lockman ?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

‘Bye, Pop! Little Quacker has invited me over for a dip in his pond!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Spike; Tyke; Little Quacker; Health Department worker; farmer

Synopsis

The Health Department has drained all the local ponds, which had become a breeding place for mosquitoes, leaving Little Quacker homeless. Spike and Tyke try to help.

Reprints

• from Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 series) #236 (June 1967)

Keywords

displacement; duckpond; MGM character crossover

Indexer Notes

New story.

Story is billed as "Spike and Tyke with Little Quacker".

Story is interrupted between pages 3 and 4 for four pages of "Gold Key Comics Club" material, encompassing the four pages of the centerfold.

Gold Key Comics Club News (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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

Comic Book Election Official Ballot (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

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

What's Your Line? (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

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Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We're snowed under with the gag lines you sent us and while we're deciding which ones are the best, we're printing some of the original cartoons with our own lines. Were yours funnier?

Feature Logo

Gold Key Comics Club

Keywords

gag captions

Indexer Notes

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

Can You Create a Monster? (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Powerful, treacherous, frightening, that's what a monster should be. If you can imagine such an awesome creature, draw one.

Feature Logo

Gold Key Comics Club

Keywords

drawings; monsters

Indexer Notes

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

[Rabbit-Trapper Tom] (Table of Contents: 9)

Tom and Jerry / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Trappin' season opens tomorrow, and I’m all set to catch myself a mess of rabbits!

Feature Logo

Tom and Jerry [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; game warden (anthropomorphic bulldog)

Synopsis

With trapping season one day away, Jerry and Tuffy try to prevent Tom from trapping “poor defenseless little bunnies”, by rigging things so that it appears to a game warden that Tom is trapping out-of-season.

Reprints

• from Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 series) #236 (June 1967)
which is reprinted
• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #137 (December 1955)

Keywords

inventive excuses; rabbits; trapping; trickery

Indexer Notes

"Reprinted by popular demand" The last balloon of the final panel is lettered differently from the rest of the story. Possibly Harvey Eisenberg’s lettering in this balloon? Both this reprint and the original printing display the same lettering inconsistency.

Complete the Comic (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

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Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Did you send us funny endings for these short comics? We'll print them soon. Meanwhile, here are our final gag panels.

Feature Logo

Gold Key Comics Club

Keywords

gags

Indexer Notes

Readers are invited to create and submit a "final gag panel" drawing to complete an "unfinished" comic strip. Editors' examples are provided.

The Joke's on You (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

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Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here's a whole pageful of jokes for your enjoyment sent in by readers like you.

Feature Logo

Gold Key Comics Club

Keywords

jokes; riddles

Indexer Notes

Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.

Unlike most such pages, this entry is not hosted by the Gold Key Kid.

[A Gopher Sticks It to Droopy] (Table of Contents: 12)

Droopy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Feature Logo

Droopy [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Droopy; Droopy’s master; gopher (arm and hand only)

Synopsis

Tired of fetching a stick, Droopy drops it down a gopher hole – only to have the gopher throw it back.

Reprints

• from Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 series) #236 (June 1967)
which is reprinted
• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #151 (February 1957)

Keywords

dogs; fetch-the-stick

Indexer Notes

Pantomime. Black and white on inside back cover.

3 Complete Fishing Outfits (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Niresk Fishing Outfits / advertisement / 1 page (report information)