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Watermelon Ceded

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry

Synopsis: Jerry pops-up from inside Tom’s watermelon.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Eisenberg art credit by Joe Torcivia. November 2019. Previous indexer listed Lynn Karp.

You’d Spend a Dollar for This Wallet Alone!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(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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Pages: 1

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.

Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

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: Flag

Tom and Jerry Summer Fun #1 published October 1967
as Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Tom and Jerry #309 [Gold Key] published August 1978
as Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Tom & Jerry #7/1982 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 10

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).

Whose House Is It, Anyway?

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

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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Pages: 5

Bertie Bird Delivers the Mail

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bertie Bird; Suzie Sparrow; mailman; big black dog

First Line: "Chee!" Bertie Bird exclaimed, as a piercing whistle rang out in Apple Tree Lane. "What's that?"

Synopsis: Bertie helps a mailman by retrieving a letter taken by a mean dog.

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Pages: 2

Swim-Flammed

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Flip; Dip; Ma; Pop; Harry Hippo

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

Motorized Mayhem

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

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

A Hole-In-One-Hundred

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

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

Umbrella Boat

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Jerry; Tuffy; swordfish

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, and narrowly escape a swordfish.

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

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Feature(s): Tom Foolery

Character(s): Tom (of Tom and Jerry)

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Word puzzle on inside back cover.

The Big One That Got Away!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Droopy; big fish; bait merchant (arm and hand only)

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

Notes: Pantomime.

Tom Foolery

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

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

Notes: Black and white on inside back cover. Approximately half of page. Lower half is "Droopy's Dippy Questions...".

[untitled]

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Feature(s): Droopy's Dippy Questions

Character(s): Droopy

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Riddles on the inside back cover.

Droopy's Dippy Questions!

Activity on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Droopy

First Line: Where was King Solomon's Temple?

Synopsis: Six riddles from Droopy.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Black and white on inside back cover. Approximately half of page. Upper half is "Tom Foolery".

Yippee! Ride it Cowboy!

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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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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Notes: A kid in cowboy outfit casts his lasso around some Schwinn bicycle advertising copy. Color ad on back cover.