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Issue: Tom & Jerry Comics #131
Publication Date: June 1955
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Issues: #131 of 153 Issues (157 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Chase Craig
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US, later Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Cover, Front
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Watermelon Ceded

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Tom and Jerry
Character(s): Tom; Jerry
Synopsis: Jerry pops-up from inside Tom’s watermelon.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Eisenberg art credit by Joe Torcivia. November 2019. Previous indexer listed Lynn Karp.
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You’d Spend a Dollar for This Wallet Alone!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Eisenberg (Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy figures only)
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Dell Comics; Tom and Jerry
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
First Line: …But it doesn’t cost you a penny if you subscribe now to Tom and Jerry Comics.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Tom invites readers and parents to subscribe to Tom and Jerry Comics and receive a "handsome blue and red wallet... made of strong, durable vinyl plastic that looks and feels like real leather". The ad includes the "Dell Comics Pledge to Parents", and repurposed figures of Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy drawn by Harvey Eisenberg. Other art is not by Eisenberg.
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Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Inker(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Tom and Jerry
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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In Content Item: FlagTom and Jerry Summer Fun #1 published October 1967
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTom and Jerry #309 [Gold Key] published August 1978
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTom & Jerry #7/1982 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Meta moment: Jerry addresses the readers on page ten, panel six (final panel). Eisenberg art credit by Joe Torcivia. November 2019. Previous indexer listed Lynn Karp. 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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Whose House Is It, Anyway?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lynn Karp
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Big Spike and Little Tyke
Character(s): Spike; Tyke; Spike and Tyke’s master; police officer
First Line: Good night, pooches! I'm goin' in the house now!
Synopsis: Tired of sleeping outside in a doghouse, Spike and Tyke decide to spend the night in their master’s house. The master does not share their feelings, leading to a battle of wits.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Bertie Bird Delivers the Mail

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; Harvey Eisenberg (logo and title only)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Bertie Bird
Character(s): Bertie Bird; Suzie Sparrow; mailman; big black dog
Synopsis: Bertie helps a mailman by retrieving a letter taken by a mean dog.
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Pages: 2
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Swim-Flammed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Flip 'n' Dip
Character(s): Flip; Dip; Ma; Pop
First Line: Can we go swimming, Ma?
Synopsis: Ma wants Pop to lifeguard for Flip 'n' Dip when the kids go swimming, but Pop fears she wants him for house cleaning chores.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: “Copyright 1955 by Western Printing & Litho Co.” Not MGM characters.
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Motorized Mayhem

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Barney Bear with Fuzzy and Wuzzy
Character(s): Barney Bear; Fuzzy; Wuzzy
First Line: I'd better see what those kids are up to!
Synopsis: Fuzzy and Wuzzy wreak havoc with an old discarded motor.
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Pages: 5
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A Hole-In-One-Hundred

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vivie Risto
Inker(s): Vivie Risto
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Vivie Risto
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Wuff the Prairie Dog
Character(s): Wuff the Prairie Dog; Sammy Squirrel; Charlie Coyote; Tommy Toad
First Line: How did you like that meal, Sammy?
Synopsis: Tommy Toad, an eccentric golf-playing tourist, uses Wuff’s hole-in-the-ground for his impromptu golf game. When he is captured by Charlie Coyote, Wuff and Sammy save him and confound Charlie by digging many more holes to surround and camouflage Wuff’s own hole.
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Pages: 5
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Umbrella Boat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lynn Karp
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Jerry and Tuffy
Character(s): Jerry; Tuffy
First Line: Look, Jerry! Who's afraid of the Big Bad Fish!
Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy use an overturned clear-plastic umbrella as a glass-bottomed boat.
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tom Foolery
Character(s): Tom (of Tom and Jerry)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Word puzzle on inside back cover.
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The Big One That Got Away!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Inker(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Droopy
Character(s): Droopy; big fish
Synopsis: Using a can of small fish as “live bait”, Droopy snags a fish so huge it frightens him on home – where he pan-fries the remainder of his live bait for dinner.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pantomime.
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Tom Foolery

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Inker(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Letterer(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Tom and Jerry
Character(s): Tom; telephone operator
First Line: If you place the first letter of each of these objects in the proper space, you’ll know what the telephone operator said to Tom!
Synopsis: Use the first letter of each word represented by a picture (wing, rooster, etc.) to spell out the message.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Black and white on inside back cover. Approximately half of page. Lower half is "Droopy's Dippy Questions...".
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Feature(s): Droopy's Dippy Questions
Character(s): Droopy
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Riddles on the inside back cover.
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Droopy's Dippy Questions!

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Inker(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Letterer(s): Harvey Eisenberg
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Droopy
Character(s): Droopy
First Line: Where was King Solomon's Temple?
Synopsis: Six riddles from Droopy.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Black and white on inside back cover. Approximately half of page. Upper half is "Tom Foolery".
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Yippee! Ride it Cowboy!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Schwinn
Character(s): kid dressed as a cowboy
First Line: The Schwinn Corvette 3-speed middleweight bike
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A kid in cowboy outfit casts his lasso around some Schwinn bicycle advertising copy. Color ad on back cover.

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