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Issue: Tom & Jerry Comics #148
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1956
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Entrancing Toothpaste

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Tuffy “charms” the contents of a toothpaste tube, as if it were a snake.
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Miscellaneous
1
Beat This Game If You Can!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Dell Comics; Tom and Jerry
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
This is the fascinating "Ke" puzzle - a removable peg game that you can play by your self or with a friend.
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Miscellaneous
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Offer to subscribe to Tom and Jerry Comics at the normal newsstand price and receive a free "Ke" puzzle game as an additional premium. Color ad on inside front cover.

Per the ad copy: "This month Tom & Jerry Comics are offering a FREE "Ke" puzzle game to every new subscriber. All it costs for a full year's subscription... 12 big issues... is $1.20. This isn't any more than you'd pay normally, and we mail each issue to your home when you're a subscriber."

The ad includes the "Dell Comics Pledge to Parents", and (repurposed?) figures of Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy which may be penciled by Harvey Eisenberg, but appear to be inked or finished by someone else.
A Study of Tom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
(Pant!) Seems like I should be able to (puff!) nab those pests!
To soothe his jangled nerves, Tom takes up knitting. Jerry and Tuffy find this quite curious and, armed with a book of "Cat Facts", begin an intensive study of Tom's behavior and physical characteristics - a process that drives peace-seeking Tom batty.
Reprinting
FlagTom and Jerry #239 published February 1968
as A Study of Tom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
Balking Turkey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Spike; Tyke; Tom the Turkey; Spike and Tyke's master; Spike and Tyke's mistress; male pedestrian; female pedestrian; cop; lady in house
What're you looking so sad for, Tyke? Cheer up! It's Thanksgiving Day!
On a snowy Thanksgiving Day, Tyke tries to hide Tom the Turkey from his master's axe.
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Miscellaneous
5
Flying High

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bertie Bird; Billie Bird; Mother Bird; Cousin Chubby; Howard Hawk
"Now, children," Mother Bird cautioned Bertie Bird and brother Billie one fine sunny afternoon, "you must be very careful with your little cousin Chubby. Remember he still hasn't learned to fly."
Bertie and Billie try teaching their too-chubby Cousin Chubby to fly, but he can't seem to get off the ground, until spurred to action by the threat of Howard Hawk.
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FlagTom and Jerry #237 published August 1967
as Flying High [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Getting a Job Can Be a Job

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Barney Bear; Fuzzy; Wuzzy; grocer; druggist; department store manager; pedestrians; lady shoppers
Can we borrow a dollar, Unc?
Barney Bear gives nephews Fuzzy and Wuzzy tips on how to find a job, to no avail.
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Miscellaneous
5
Pooling Their Resources to Fight Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Wuff the Prairie Dog; Sammy Squirrel; Charlie Coyote; Lem Lizard (letter carrier); The Armadillo Kid (bandit)
Whew! The desert heat is awful! What we need is a swimming pool!
In the unusually high desert heat, Wuff and Sammy dream of having a swimming pool. They receive a wanted poster offering a reward for the capture of The Armadillo Kid and devise a trap for the bandit, so they can buy a swimming pool with the reward money. Also suffering from the heat, Charlie Coyote gets the same idea but decides to lay back until Wuff and Sammy spring their trap, and then muscle-in on the reward. Ultimately, and unwittingly, Charlie plays a part in the capture of The Armadillo Kid, forcing Wuff and Sammy to find a safe way to share their new pool with the carnivorous coyote.
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Miscellaneous
5
Pumpkin Puss

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; various pie purchasers
Wish I could think of a way to make some holiday money!
Jerry and Tuffy bake a batch of pumpkin pies to sell. Tom muscles-in to take over once the baking work is done.
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Miscellaneous
5
A Negative Net Result for Droopy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Droopy; blue butterfly; kid with butterfly net; red butterfly; dogcatcher
Droopy catches a red butterfly with a small net just as a dogcatcher catches a Droopy with a bigger net, allowing the red butterfly to fly free.
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Miscellaneous
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Pantomime. Top three tiers of page. On final interior page of the comic. Bottom tier is an ad for Dell Comics' Lassie title.
South America... steep mountains, wild rivers, dark jungle... a place for ADVENTURE and DANGER for... LASSIE

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Dell Comics; Lassie
Lassie
Only 10¢ at your favorite Dell Comics dealer
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Miscellaneous
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Ad for Dell Comics' Lassie title. Bottom tier of page. On final interior page of the comic. Shares page with a Droopy comic story (see previous entry).

The cover of M-G-M's Lassie (Dell, 1950 Series) #31 (November-December 1956) is reproduced for the ad.
See The Mickey Mouse Club in View-Master Pictures that "Come to Life"

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Subject Matter
Mickey Mouse (drawn in his bandleader costume, as he appeared on The Mickey Mouse Club); Annette (Mouseketeer); Sharon (Mouseketeer); boy Mouseketeer #1; boy Mouseketeer #2
That's right! Now your famous TV friends are in exciting View-Master pictures.
In a color photo, Mickey and four Mouseketeers rehearse for an episode of The Mickey Mouse Club.
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Miscellaneous
1
Ad for the Sawyer's Inc. View-Master Stereo Viewer. View-Master packets for "Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers" and "Mickey Mouse Club Circus Visits Disneyland" are pictured in the ad. Color ad on inside back cover.
It makes you smile!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
General Mills; Trix
Five kids with "Trix-smiles"
The happy cereal! The happy snack! New fruit-flavor, fruit-color Trix
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Miscellaneous
1
This ad for General Mills' Trix cereal presumably dates from when the cereal was a new product, predating its decades-tenured spokes-bunny the Trix Rabbit!

The floating heads of five kids are drawn with curved puffs of Trix forming the smiles on their faces. At lower right is a photograph of a bowl of Trix cereal in milk, flanked by a box of Trix with nary a rabbit to be seen.

Per Merlin Haas: "According to the General Mills website, Trix was introduced in 1954 and the Trix rabbit first appeared in a TV commercial in 1959."
https://www.generalmills.com/news/stories/celebrating-60-years-of-the-trix-rabbit

Color ad on back cover.

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