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Issue: Tom and Jerry #235
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/23/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10058-704. On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Contains the second month of the "Gold Key Comics Club".
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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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Model Train with Mini Hoboes

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Hoboes Jerry and Tuffy, complete with bindle, hop a ride on Tom's model freight train.
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Tom Foolery

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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anthropomorphic
Jerry
What pine has the longest needles?
Help Jerry solve a riddle by working-out a rebus puzzle.
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Black and white on inside front cover. Top half of page. Approximately half of page. Lower half is "Droopy's Dippy Questions...".

Though the feature is called "Tom Foolery", Tom is not pictured anywhere in the panel.
Droopy's Dippy Questions...

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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anthropomorphic
Droopy
What is most useful when it is used up?
Five riddles from Droopy.
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Black and white on inside front cover. Lower half of page. Approximately half of page. Upper half is "Tom Foolery".
The Feathered Cat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; pet shop delivery man; Mrs. Vansnoot
Wow! Get a load of this ad in today's paper!
Tom tries to paint Jerry and Tuffy in order to sell them as white mice. They cover him with paint and feathers to turn the tables. But Tom winds up as the pet of Mrs. Vansnoot, living on t-bone steaks.
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New story.
Tuffy's Tetter-Totter Trick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Jerry; Tuffy
Let's go out and make a snowman, Jerry!
Tuffy wants to play in the snow, but Jerry prefers staying warm inside. Using a teeter-totter poked through the front door's mail slot, Tuffy propels Jerry outside and turns him into a snowman.
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Grandpa's Holiday

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Bertie Bird; Billie Bird; Mother Bird; Grandpa Bird; Charlie Catbird
"Now remember," Mother Bird whispered to Bertie Bird and Brother Billie, "Grandpa Bird isn't as young as he used to be, so look out for him and take it easy!"
Mother Bird warns the children to look after Grandpa Bird on their outing, but the energetic grandfather wears them out and rescues them from Charlie Catbird.
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The two young birds in this story are described in the text as "Bertie Bird [established as male in previous stories] and Brother Billie". Yet, in the illustration, one of them is wearing a pink bow on his/her head.
Runaway Dogs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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anthropomorphic
Spike; Tyke; kitty; the master; bloodhound
Gosh, what a job to bury all these bones, Tyke!
When their master tells Spike and Tyke to "get lost," they take him at his word. On hearing that the master is offering a reward, kitty captures and returns them. The humiliated bulldogs make kitty help them bury their bones.
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"Reprinted by popular demand."
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?; David Petersen; Les Scott; Pamela Adams; Ken Lillie; Linda Scott; Rich Barth; David Kaliner; Jennifer DaCosta; Adile Ulwiner; Tim George; Cindy Watson; Beth Winder; Daniel Perry; Paul Jasa; Doug Jasa; Gary Gianotta; Ted Salas
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Subject Matter
Gold Key Comics Club News
Gold Key Kid (advertising character)
Outlook: Laugh a Day Keeps Gloom Away
Page 1 introduction to Gold Key Comics Club; page 2 Monster Art (professional); page 3 Complete The Comic; page 4 The Joke's On You (gags from readers -- header comic)
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Apparently at least two artists (possibly three) at work
Gold Key Comics Club News

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
New Club Continues to Attract Attention!
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Second month of publication for the “Gold Key Comics Club”, for which as many as six pages are carved out of each issue, to present readers’ jokes, drawings, etc. These pages were generally the four pages of the centerfold, and the final two pages of the issue. Also included, a “Gold Key Comics Club Membership Card” to sign, cut out, and carry. This is the first issue of this title to run Gold Key Comics Club pages.
[untitled]

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Gold Key Club Comics
convicts; swamis; baseball pitcher
What's your line?
Cartoons for which readers may write their own captions
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Monster Art

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Can You Create a Monster?
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Readers are invited to submit drawings of monsters for possible publication.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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100 Toy Soldiers
Ad for plastic soldiers from 100 Toy Soldiers
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Complete the Comic

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Our gag artist is in trouble again.
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Readers are invited to create and submit a "final gag panel" drawing to complete an "unfinished" comic strip. One finished example is provided.
The Joke's on You

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Gold Key Kid (first appearance)
Hey, gang! Got any favorite jokes?
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Jokes and riddles submitted by readers. Oddly, this page, appearing during only the second month of the Gold Key Comics Club's existence, is filled with reader-submitted jokes and riddles – with presumed actual reader’s names and home towns included. As these could not have been submitted for publication as part of the various Gold Key Comics Club “reader-participation pages” which only began in the previous month's releases (none of the other such pages herein have any reader contributions), one must believe these reader-submitted jokes and riddles were ported over from another source at Western Publishing… most likely the “Goofy Jokes” feature page from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, which featured the same type of content. Coincidently, the “Goofy Jokes” feature ceased with the start of the Gold Key Comics Club.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Gold Key -- The World Famous Comics
Promo for Gold Key titles
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Trademarks or logos from Gold Key; Warner Brothers; Universal City Studios; NBC; Hanna-Barbera; Marge; 20th Century Fox; Edgar Rice Burroughs; MGM Television; ABC; Walt Disney; Walter Lantz; CBS
Just Fur Fun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; bear
Ah! The good old winter time!
Tom loves winter camping. Jerry and Tuffy find the house too cold and take warm refuge in Tom's fur-lined boots. The mice accidently find themselves on Tom's winter camping trip, when "the puss takes the boots" along to keep his paws (feet) warm. While in the wintery wild, Jerry and Tuffy make off with the boots to keep warm, steal Tom's food, and get him into a tangle with a bear. Using a skunk hide to scare the cat and make the fur on his back stand up, they shear off the fur to warm themselves with. Once back at home, Tom makes them knit him warm britches as restitution.
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"Reprinted by popular demand". Fourth-Wall Flouting: Tom directly addresses the readers on page ten, panels six and seven.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Get nationally famous prizes
Ad, with order coupon, for Junior Sales Club of America
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[untitled]

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Joel Ballenger; Mary Zimmerman; William Hanlin
Make Money Get Prizes
Ad, with order coupon, for making sales for American Seed Co.
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What's Your Line?

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Try your humor I.Q. What line do you think best suits the picture below?
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Readers are invited to submit gag captions for a series of provided single-panel cartoon illustrations. One finished example is provided.
100 pc Toy Soldiers Set $1.25

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Made of durable plastic, each on its own base.
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Ad for 100 plastic toy soldiers, packed in a footlocker-styled storage box. Top half of page.
Gold Key - The World Famous Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Gold Key Comics
Buy the best - Buy Gold Key Your best comics buy - still only 12-cents
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24 different Gold Key Comics titles are listed, with the Gold Key Comics logo centered amid the scattered logos of various studios for which Western Publishing held a comics publishing license. Yellow background with black and red lettering. No characters or comic book covers are pictured. Lower half of page.

Studio logos: Warner Bros., Universal City Studios, Hanna-Barbera, NBC (television network), Marge's, 20th Century Fox, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, Walter Lantz, ABC (television network), Walt Disney's, CBS (television network)
Get Nationally Famous Prizes at No Cost to You!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Or a big 55-cent profit for each box you sell
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Ad for Junior Sales Club of America, offering prizes or money for the sales of "lovely all occasion cards". Color ad on inside back cover.
Make Money Get Prizes with Fast Selling American Seeds

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co., in exchange for prizes or money. Three kids with quotes endorsing this enterprise are seen in black and white photos. Color ad on back cover.

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