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Issue: Tom and Jerry #217
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
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Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/22/1963
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig and/or Del Connell (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10058-311. Cover price reads "Now only 12c." On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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Treasure in a Goldfish Bowl

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Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
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Bargain Offer! Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge both for one year for $1.25!

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck
If you had a key to Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin, you couldn't get a better buy than this...
Subscription ad for Gold Key's Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge titles. Offer expires November 30, 1963.
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Carl Barks produced original art for this advertisement. Black and white on inside front cover.
School of Hard Knocks

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Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Gee, Jerry, you mean if I study my lessons real hard, I will some day become the smartest mouse in the world?
Jerry tries to teach Tuffy to be smarter than Tom and Tom tries in vain to stop him. Each envisions a "nightmare version" of the other's effect on Tuffy.
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Daddy Long Legs

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Little Quacker
Little Quacker; possum; possum's dad; Charlie Coyote; Charlie's son; crane
I say my father can whip your father!
Little Quacker gets into trouble when he tells a coyote child that his daddy (which he doesn't have since he's an orphan) can beat the coyote's daddy.
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To the Rescue

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Mouse Musketeers [Jerry and Tuffy]; M'sieur Poosycat [Tom]; King; seven princesses; witch; Sir Ruffstuff (villain)
Four, five, six... Zounds! My dear number seven daughter is missing!
The King’s seventh daughter has been kidnapped by Sir Ruffstuff. The Mouse Musketeers set out to rescue her, but cowardly M’sieur Poosycat wants the glory for himself.
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In the Swim

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Barney Bear; Benny Burro; Mooseface McElk
Barney and Benny dig a backyard pool. Mooching Mooseface McElk eyes the finished product.
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Barney, Benny, and Mooseface are presented here in a similar mode to the classic 1940s stories by Carl Barks in Our Gang Comics.
The Ship's Cat

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Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; ship's captain; sailor at ship's wheel
Boy! I wish I could take a trip to an island like that!
To get a free ocean cruise, Tom throws Jerry and Tuffy aboard a ship and applies for the job of “ship’s cat”.
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This is not the similarly-titled story that appeared in Boy's and Girl's March of Comics #295, and was reprinted in Golden Comics Digest #8.
Instant Live Sea Animals

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Just add water... you've got INSTANT LIFE
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Ad for "Sea Monkeys". Appears on upper two-thirds of inside back cover.
Wild Animals of North America

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Keys of Knowledge
The Polar Bear of North America weighs up to 1,700 pounds.
Educational feature focusing on the polar bear.
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Brief text accompanied by two illustrations. Appears on lower third of inside back cover.
132 Roman Soldiers only $1.98

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2 complete Roman armies!
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Ad for molded plastic Roman soldiers. Back cover.

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