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Issue: Tom and Jerry #275
Publication Date: October 1973
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Issues: #275 of 132 Issues (188 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Gold Key
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/1973
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): (Western Publishing New York Office); Wally Green
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 90058-310. Unlike many issues of this period, which alternated between “conventional rounded dialogue balloons” and “rectangular dialogue balloons with rounded corners”, all stories in this issue display conventional rounded dialogue balloons.
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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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Eighteen Holes of Cheese

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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy play golf on a wheel of cheese.
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Pages: 1
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132 Roman Soldiers only $1.98

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First Line: 2 complete Roman armies!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for molded plastic Roman soldiers. Color ad on inside front cover.
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In the Center Ring

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; circus ringmaster; elephants; seals; trained dogs; clowns; lions; trapeze artist
First Line: Wow! Did you ever see anything so exciting, Jerry?
Synopsis: Tom sells Jerry and Tuffy to the circus, as a dual cannonball act – “The Buckshot Twins”.
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Pages: 8
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The Phantom Strikes

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Feature(s): Kenner; Betty Crocker Easy-Bake Oven
First Line: I just add water and mix it up!
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Disclose Notes: Ad in comic form for Betty Crocker Easy-Bake Oven by Kenner. Between pages 4 and 5 of previous story.
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Loco-motive

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
First Line: Wee-Wow-Wee! Look at that fab model train set!
Synopsis: Can Jerry and Tuffy play with a model train set, without waking a sleeping Tom?
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Sears, Roebuck and Co.
First Line: The Free Spirit Spyder. It looks like it's moving even when it's standing still.
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Disclose Notes: Ad for the "Free Spirit Spyder" bicycle from Sears Sports Center. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story.
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Boys Sell Grit

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Feature(s): Grit
First Line: Make $1 to $6 Weekly Get Free Prizes Too
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Disclose Notes: Ad inviting boys to sell Grit family newspapers for prizes and cash. Middle of centerfold. Top half of page.
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Order by Mail Specials

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Fun House
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Disclose Notes: Ad for various novelty items from The Fun House. Middle of centerfold. Lower half of page.
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Get These Dynamite Embroidered Cloth Patches That Tell It Like It Is!

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Penciller(s): ?; ? (photos)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photos)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gandalf Products Co.
First Line: Each groovy patch measures 3”.
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Disclose Notes: Various cartoon characters, comic characters, and counterculture symbols offered as embroidered cloth patches. Middle of centerfold.
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Take Us Along!

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
First Line: What’s all the honking – A new bike!
Synopsis: Tom gets a new bicycle for exercise purposes, but Jerry and Tuffy want him to take them along everywhere he rides.
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Pages: 6
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Kids, Roach Designs Are Now Available as Iron-On Transfers!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Gandalf Products Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Various sixties counterculture symbols offered as iron-on transfers. Between pages 3 and 4 of previous story.
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A Doubting Tom

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; TV newscaster; Mr. Philip Lope; bulldog mugger; Officer Kelly and partner; banana-eating guy; late-night passerby
First Line: What is it, Tom?
Synopsis: Tom finds a cursed diamond and stubbornly holds onto it, despite one mishap after another.
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Pages: 6
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Invite Your Friends Over for a Haunting

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Gayle House
First Line: Imagine how shocked your friends will be when you flip out the lights and they hear sounds like the howl of a wolf, a creaking door, chains rattling, screams, moaning and many more creepy sounds.
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Disclose Notes: A half page of small, single panel advertisements for a haunted house sound effects record and various other novelty items. Between pages 3 and 4 of previous story. Top half of page.
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Enter the Wonderful World of Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Sea-Monkeys
First Line: Own a bowl full of happiness – Instant pets!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Sea-Monkeys. Between pages 3 and 4 of previous story. Lower half of page.
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204 Revolutionary War Soldiers

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Revolutionary War Soldiers
First Line: Two complete armies
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for plastic toy soldiers. 204 pieces for $1.98.
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Famous Name Prizes or Cash...The Easy Olympic Way

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Feature(s): Olympic Sales Club, Inc.
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Olympic Sales Club, Inc., offering prizes or money for the sales of personalized Christmas or "all-occasion" cards and stationery. Color ad on inside back cover.
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Sales Leadership Puts It All Together

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Feature(s): Sales Leadership Club
First Line: The prizes or cash
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Sales Leadership Club, offering prizes or money for the sales of personalized Christmas cards. Color ad on back cover.

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