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Issue: Tom and Jerry #295
Publication Date: June 1977
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Issues: #295 of 132 Issues (198 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Gold Key
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0335009005806
Price: $0.30 USD
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Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Fishing Stowaways

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy fish from Tom's creel.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Image is flipped from its original printing in Tom and Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 Series) #146 (September 1956) and its prior reprinting in Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 Series) #236 (June 1967) which had Tom facing right, to Tom facing left - with all illustration elements flipped accordingly.

This was most likely done to accommodate the UPC code box, which would have interfered with Jerry and Tuffy's fishing lines as previously rendered. Tom's fishing line is also shortened for the same reason resulting in a change in perspective.

The separation of the water and sky (now more garishly colored) is now delineated with a black inked line, where in the previous printings water and sky simply "blended into one another".
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Trade Rat Troubles

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Trader Rat
First Line: Somebody's been taking my stuff and leaving a lot of junk in its place!
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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: 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!
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Contest(ed) Winnings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; bill collector; Nifty Nippy Cheese Company representative; puppet vendor; realtor; house-buying couple
First Line: Pussycat, why don't you go to work and pay your bills?
Synopsis: Already at odds over who will pay the bills, Jerry's Nifty Nippy Cheese contest winnings cause additional friction among Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy.
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Pages: 10
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Gold is Where You Find It... and Sometimes Where You Don't!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Wuff the Prairie Dog; Sammy Squirrel; Charlie Coyote; gold miner; assayer; two prospectors
First Line: School is out for another day -- Time to run, have fun and play!
Synopsis: Charlie Coyote tries to lure Wuff and Sammy into his clutches by painting a bunch of rocks to look like gold.
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Pages: 5

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