Tom and Jerry Summer Fun #1

(October 1967)

Treasure Trail (Table of Contents: 1)

Big Spike and Little Tyke / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Letters

Harvey Eisenberg (title lettering only); typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Spike and Tyke are out to find the picnic treasure!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Spike; Tyke

Synopsis

Lead Spike and Tyke through a maze to a treasure chest of bones.

Reprints

• from Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #21 - M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry Picnic Time (September 1959)

Keywords

maze

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside front cover.

[Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

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Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'm in a cake-bakin' mood today!

Feature Logo

Tom and Jerry [Dell Harvey Eisenberg Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

Synopsis

Tom bakes a very delicate cake, that could fall with the slightest jarring, while Jerry and Tuffy become determined to noisily crack a large number of walnuts they've just harvested.

Reprints

• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #131 (June 1955)

Keywords

baking; cake; cat; fourth-wall-breaking; mice; noise; nuts; working-at-cross-purposes

Indexer Notes

Fourth-Wall Flouting: Jerry directly addresses the readers on page ten, panel six, to close the story.

The gags in this story, as Tom more and more desperately tries to keep the quiet – lest his cake be ruined, are evocative of the very first Tom and Jerry animated theatrical short: “Puss Gets the Boot” (1940).

[Who Watches the (Night) Watchman?] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

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Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here, kitty, kitty! Come catch mousie!

Feature Logo

Tom and Jerry [Dell Broad Lettering]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; toy store manager; lots of dancing mice

Synopsis

Tom gets a job as a toy store night watchman catching mice at a dollar a mouse. A one-gross carton of toy dancing mice, a mess of live ones, and Jerry and Tuffy's antics complicate matters.

Reprints

• from Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 series) #130 (May 1955)

Keywords

cat; escalating events; mice; night watchman; toys

[Bone of Contention] (Table of Contents: 4)

Droopy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Barks

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

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Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was kind of my friend, the butcher, to give me a bone... but where will I bury it?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Droopy; sewer worker; bulldog; hobo; dogcatcher; dog pound master; ship's captain; ship's crew

Synopsis

Droopy, while looking for a place to bury his bone, is chosen as the mascot for a ship headed for a tropical island in search of Bluebeard's buried treasure. Droopy hides his bone in various places around the ship, causing no end of consternation for the ship's captain.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #1 (July 1954)

Keywords

bone; dog; sea or island setting; ship; treasure hunting

[From Little Sprouts, Big Trees (and Headaches) Grow] (Table of Contents: 5)

Big Spike and Little Tyke / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lynn Karp

Inks

Vic Lockman

Colors

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Letters

Vic Lockman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Let's go away on a vacation, Pop!

Feature Logo

Big Spike and Little Tyke [Dell Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Spike; Tyke; Mama Squirrel; Hazel Squirrel (daughter); bluebird; kitten

Synopsis

To please Tyke and restore his faith in the miracles of nature, Spike uproots a nearby tree and transplants it in their yard where the pup had previously planted a tree sprout. All goes well until two squirrels and a bluebird who lived in the tree show up and move back into their old homes - followed by a mischievous kitten.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #1 (July 1954)

Keywords

bluebird; dogs; escalating events; indulgent parent; kitten; leave-well-enough-alone; squirrels; tree

The Frog Pond Adventure (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

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Letters

Harvey Eisenberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At those rates, we couldn't stay there a split second, Tuffy!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Jerry; Tuffy; frog

Synopsis

Jerry and Tuffy camp around a backyard pond as a substitute for visiting a swanky lakeside resort. A shifty frog fraudulently charges them all sorts of resort fees for use of the free public pond.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #3 ([July] 1956)

Keywords

frog; mice; scam; unexpected intrusion

The Seven League Boots (Table of Contents: 7)

Two Mouse Musketeers / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

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Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Little friends, I have a beastly headache!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Mouse Musketeers [Jerry; Tuffy]; M'sieur Poosycat [Tom]; King

Synopsis

When the King takes off his heavy crown, the cause of his headaches, M'sieur Poosycat schemes to steal it.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #3 ([July] 1956)

Keywords

alternate feature name; crown; headache; king; medieval setting

Indexer Notes

The feature, called "Two Mouse Musketeers" for this story (and had also been known as "The Two Mouseketeers"), would eventually settle on "Mouse Musketeers" as its regular feature title.

Summer Blues (Table of Contents: 8)

The Downhearted Duckling / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

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Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

WAH! Boo Hoo! (Sniff!)

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Little Quacker; Tom; Jerry; Doc Stork; Toby (bulldog)

Synopsis

Little Quacker has a bad case of the "cry-cups" (like hiccups, but with crying), leading to Jerry getting an equally bad case of the hiccups. They both seek a bad scare to shock them out of their respective conditions and turn to Tom for a good, scary chase. But Tom's feeling too lazy to chase anyone, so the mouse and duck force the issue, to Tom's great suspicion and fright.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #3 ([July] 1956)

Keywords

"cry-cups"; alternate character name; cat; chase; cure; dog; duck; fright; hiccups; mouse; suspicion

Indexer Notes

The feature and character, called "The Downhearted Duckling" for this story would become better known as "Little Quacker". Despite the feature title, Jerry refers to the duck as "Li'l Quacker" in the story.

Tuffy does not appear in this story, making it reminiscent of a classic-era Tom and Jerry theatrical animated short.

Myrtle the Turtle (Table of Contents: 9)

The Adventures of Tom / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg

Colors

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Letters

Rome Siemon

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gonna have a good time this summer, painting this great scenery!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Myrtle the Turtle; art critic; various art customers; other turtles

Synopsis

Myrtle, a turtle who thinks she's ugly, asks Tom to paint pretty pictures on her shell.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #3 ([July] 1956)

Keywords

paintings; turtle

Droopy the Spool Hound (Table of Contents: 10)

Droopy / 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

Have fun making your own Droopy Spool Hound.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Droopy

Synopsis

How to make a figure of Droopy with a thread-spool as its body.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #3 ([July] 1956)

Keywords

crafts; thread-spool

Tom's Tiddly Baseball Game (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Summertime is baseball time and here is a game Tom invented so that you can play indoors.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Barney Bear; Spike

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #3 ([July] 1956)

Keywords

baseball; games

Indexer Notes

Advance your baserunners, or be called out, by flipping coins or buttons tiddlywinks-style. On final interior page of the comic.

Draw Droopy (Table of Contents: 12)

Droopy / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg (Droopy figure only)

Inks

Harvey Eisenberg (Droopy figure only)

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Droopy doesn't think a picnic is complete without a little fishing.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Droopy; girl drawing Droopy

Synopsis

Draw Droopy line-by-line within the small, numbered segments of a rectangle.

Reprints

• from Dell Giant (Dell, 1959 series) #21 - M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry Picnic Time (September 1959)

Keywords

drawing

Indexer Notes

The figure of Droopy is penciled and inked by Harvey Eisenberg. The figure of the girl is drawn by another artist. Black and white on inside back cover.

[Butterfly Winged Cast Portraits] (Table of Contents: 13)

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

Pencils

Harvey Eisenberg; ? (painting)

Inks

? (painting)

Colors

? (painting)

Letters

?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tom; Jerry; Spike; Wuff the Prairie Dog; Barney Bear; featured butterfly; other butterflies

Synopsis

Jerry chases butterflies with a net, in particular one large, featured butterfly with portraits of Tom, Spike, Wuff, and Barney on its wide-spread wings.

Reprints

• from M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #1 (July 1954)

Keywords

butterflies; character portraits

Indexer Notes

Cover illustrations painted over Harvey Eisenberg's pencils (and inks?). Color on back cover.