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Model Train with Mini Hoboes

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

Synopsis: Hoboes Jerry and Tuffy, complete with bindle, hop a ride on Tom's model freight train.

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Pages: 1

Chilled to the Bone

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Droopy; Droopy's master

Synopsis: Droopy needs to find another burying place for a bone because the ground is frozen.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

Catch as Cat Can

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; big bank robber; small bank robber

First Line: Hmm...I must think of a clever way to catch Jerry and Tuffy when they try to steal the cheese today!

Synopsis: Frustrated over his inability to devise an effective trap to snare Jerry and Tuffy, Tom thinks bigger and builds a trap to catch a pair of bank robbers.

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Pages: 10

Puppy Dogged

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Spike; Tyke; Eddie (dog); squirrel; Lazy Bones (huge lethargic hound)

First Line: Spike, I'm getting a bunch of dogs together to go cat hunting today - want to join us?

Synopsis: Tyke feigns helplessness and getting into trouble so that Spike won't leave him home alone, when the grown-up dogs go cat hunting. Will Spike be able to get away with the guys, or be doomed to baby-sitting?

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In Content Item: Flag

Tom and Jerry #238 published November 1967
as Puppy Dogged [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 5

The Candy Heart

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bertie Bird; Billie Bird; Bobby (boy); bully

First Line: One frosty morning, Bertie Bird flitted restlessly up and down the tree branch that held his nest home in Apple Tree Lane.

Synopsis: A bully steals the money little Bobby saved to buy his mother a candy heart for Valentine's Day, but he didn't reckon on the aerial interventions of Bertie and Billie Bird.

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Cat on a Hot Tile Roof

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Barney Bear; Fuzzy; Wuzzy; cat; dog; mouse

First Line: Fuzzy and Wuzzy, your dog chased the cat on the roof again!

Synopsis: Fuzzy and Wuzzy must get their yowling cat off their Uncle Barney's roof... or else!

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Pages: 5

Gold is Where You (Don't) Find It!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Wuff the Prairie Dog; Sammy Squirrel; Charlie Coyote; schoolteacher; other students; whistling bug; trade rat

First Line: Heh! You won't find any fish in your well, Charlie!

Synopsis: Charlie muscles in on Wuff and Sammy's search for a desert cache of gold.

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Pages: 5

Duels and Don'ts

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mouse Musketeers [Jerry; Tuffy]; M'sieur Poosycat [Tom]; King

First Line: I hope I can sneak away today without running into those Mouse Musketeers!

Synopsis: Seeking a break from the constant clanking of swords, the King forbids any more dueling by the Mouse Musketeers and M'sieur Poosycat... but they continue to find sly ways to get around the restrictive royal decree.

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Pages: 5

Glass-Bottom Bone

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Droopy

First Line: Glass-Bottom Boat See the Fish [on sign]

Synopsis: Droopy gets an idea from seeing a glass-bottom boat.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime. On final interior page of the comic.

The Toy That Grows!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Dell Comics; Tom and Jerry

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

First Line: Here is one of the most amazing toys ever offered by Dell Comics. Just add water and the Magic Beans will sprout and grow amazingly!

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Notes: Offer to subscribe to Tom and Jerry Comics and receive a "Jack and the Beanstalk Magic Bean Bowl" play set as an additional premium for a total of $1.50. Black and white ad on inside back cover.

As pictured in the ad, the "Jack and the Beanstalk Magic Bean Bowl" play set includes a booklet ("The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk"), cut-out stand-ups of Jack, Jack's mother, Jack's house, the cow (traded for the magic beans), the golden egg-laying hen, the magic singing harp, and (of course) the Giant with club in one hand and his bag of gold in the other, and the Magic Bean Bowl all in a handy (presumably) cardboard case. Figures of Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy, looking as if they were badly traced from Harvey Eisenberg's art, surround illustrations of all these goodies. Tom delivers the title-line "The Toy That Grows!"

Per the ad copy: "You can get your own Magic Bean Bowl by subscribing to Tom & Jerry Comics. For only $1.50, you'll enjoy 12 exciting issues plus the thrill of watching your Magic Beanstalk grow."

The ad also includes the "Dell Comics Pledge to Parents".

Sam's Lingo Lessons

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: teen

Feature(s): Seven-Up Presents:

Character(s): Sam; teacher; students; Grumpy Gus; Heroine Nell (on TV); mustache-twirling villain (on TV); horse (on TV); two teen boys and one teen girl watching TV

First Line: Teacher Would Say: "Students! Come to order immediately!"

Synopsis: For each situation - unruly students in class, grumpy diner customer in a hurry, and watching an old-fashioned melodrama on TV - you are given what the teacher, Grumpy Gus, or Heroine Nell would say (in conventional language). This is followed by what Sam would say (in 1950s teen slang). Below this, readers are asked to fill-in "What Would You Say?"

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Pages: 1

Notes: Three single-panel illustrations with accompanying text below. Oddly, the "old-fashioned melodrama on TV" is seen in color.

Color ad on back cover. Illustrated ad for Seven-Up soft drink featuring teen slang. Part of "Nothing does it like Seven-Up!" series.