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Issue: Tom and Jerry #309
Publication Date: August 1978
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Issues: #309 of 132 Issues (198 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Gold Key
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/1978
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0335009005808
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: All reprint issue. Cover and comic contents are all reprint.

Cover code: 90058-808. Publication date is derived from the last three digits of the cover code (808 = August, 1978). On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one (786 = June, 1978).
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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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Jerry Horns In

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Tom; Jerry
Synopsis: Jerry startles Tom while riding a roller skate equipped with a horn.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTom & Jerry Comics #130 published May 1955
was Jerry Horns In [Illustration on Cover, Front]altered
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: For this issue, the entire cover image has been "straightened" to show Jerry zooming along on his roller skate on a flat sidewalk surface. The original printing for Tom and Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 Series) #130 (May 1955) and its first reprint in Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 Series) #229 (April 1966) show Jerry riding his skate down a sidewalk incline (thus, accounting for his speed?) with the frightened, jumping Tom at a similar angle. Owing to the times, a UPC box is also added to the lower left corner of the cover of Tom and Jerry #309.
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Who Watches the (Night) Watchman?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; toy store manager; lots of dancing mice
First Line: Here, kitty, kitty! Come catch mousie!
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTom & Jerry Comics #130 published May 1955
was Who Watches the (Night) Watchman? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
First Line: I'm in a cake-bakin' mood today!
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTom & Jerry Comics #131 published June 1955
was Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose 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).
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The Game's a Foot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Jerry; Tuffy; lots of walking humans (faces unseen)
First Line: Watch out for that foot, Tuffy!
Synopsis: In a crowded city, Jerry and Tuffy are always underfoot, and at risk of being stepped on. A tiny nearby deserted island would seem to be the answer to their problems... but is it?
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTom & Jerry Comics #123 published October 1954
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2

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