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Fishing Stowaways

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy fish from Tom's creel.

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Pages: 1

A Big Fan of Ice Cream

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry

Synopsis: Tom learns that ice cream and fans don't mix.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime. Black and white on inside front cover.

Trade Rat Troubles

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Trader Rat

First Line: Somebody's been taking my stuff and leaving a lot of junk in its place!

Synopsis: Tom has become the victim of a trade rat, who takes something he wants and leaves something else in its place. When the trade rat is through with Tom, Jerry and Tuffy continue “trading” random objects for Tom’s food and blame the trade rat.

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Pages: 10

Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand"

Tom enacts a particularly cruel and unusual punishment on the mice in the story's final panel - forcing them to eat a grindstone (painted to look like a wheel of cheese) by chiseling it down piece by piece.

JERRY: But, Tom, we can't eat THIS!
TOM: It may take A LONG TIME, but you can do it!

The Period Portrait

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bertie Bird; Billie Bird; Mr. Pallet (art store owner); Joe (delivery man)

First Line: "Chee!" Bertie Bird twittered excitedly as he scampered back to his home in Apple Tree Lane.

Synopsis: Bertie and Billie Bird fly into an art store to see a painting of the birds’ great-grandmother Bertha Bird.

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Pages: 1

Notes: The name of the character Billie Bird is spelled "Billy Bird" in this story.

A Ponderous Problem

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Spike; Tyke; Little Quacker; Health Department worker; farmer

First Line: ‘Bye, Pop! Little Quacker has invited me over for a dip in his pond!

Synopsis: The Health Department has drained all the local ponds, which had become a breeding place for mosquitoes, leaving Little Quacker homeless. Spike and Tyke try to help.

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Pages: 5

Notes: New story.

Story is billed as "Spike and Tyke with Little Quacker".

Story is interrupted between pages 3 and 4 for four pages of "Gold Key Comics Club" material, encompassing the four pages of the centerfold.

Gold Key Comics Club News

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First Line: Club mail swamps editors!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Update on the “Comic Book Election” (see the following entry). Requests for reader-submitted jokes and drawings. “Gold Key Comics Club Membership Card” to sign, cut out, and carry. There are four Gold Key Comics Club pages, comprising the centerfold, occurring between pages 3 and 4 of “A Ponderous Problem”.

Comic Book Election Official Ballot

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First Line: Have you ever wished you could vote for your favorite comics – so everybody will know which titles are tops with you?

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Notes: Clip-and-mail survey asking readers about age, gender, siblings, pass-along readers, and if either parent also reads this comic. “Check each comic book you buy regularly”. Choices offered are: The Flintstones, Little Lulu, Tarzan, The Three Stooges, Turok Son of Stone, Mickey Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry, Uncle Scrooge, Daffy Duck, Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny, Space Family Robinson, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Magnus Robot Fighter, Donald Duck, Korak, Mighty Samson, Daniel Boone, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Doctor Solar, and Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories.

What's Your Line?

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First Line: We're snowed under with the gag lines you sent us and while we're deciding which ones are the best, we're printing some of the original cartoons with our own lines. Were yours funnier?

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Notes: Readers are invited to submit gag captions for a series of provided single-panel cartoon illustrations.

Can You Create a Monster?

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First Line: Powerful, treacherous, frightening, that's what a monster should be. If you can imagine such an awesome creature, draw one.

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Notes: Readers are invited to submit drawings of monsters for possible publication.

Rabbit-Trapper Tom

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; game warden (anthropomorphic bulldog)

First Line: Trappin' season opens tomorrow, and I’m all set to catch myself a mess of rabbits!

Synopsis: With trapping season one day away, Jerry and Tuffy try to prevent Tom from trapping “poor defenseless little bunnies”, by rigging things so that it appears to a game warden that Tom is trapping out-of-season.

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Pages: 10

Notes: "Reprinted by popular demand" The last balloon of the final panel is lettered differently from the rest of the story. Possibly Harvey Eisenberg’s lettering in this balloon? Both this reprint and the original printing display the same lettering inconsistency.

Complete the Comic

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First Line: Did you send us funny endings for these short comics? We'll print them soon. Meanwhile, here are our final gag panels.

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Notes: Readers are invited to create and submit a "final gag panel" drawing to complete an "unfinished" comic strip. Editors' examples are provided.

The Joke's on You

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First Line: Here's a whole pageful of jokes for your enjoyment sent in by readers like you.

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Notes: Jokes and riddles submitted by readers.

Unlike most such pages, this entry is not hosted by the Gold Key Kid.

A Gopher Sticks It to Droopy

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Droopy; Droopy’s master; gopher (arm and hand only)

Synopsis: Tired of fetching a stick, Droopy drops it down a gopher hole – only to have the gopher throw it back.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime. Black and white on inside back cover.

3 Complete Fishing Outfits

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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First Line: Nationally Advertised 1967 Models

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Notes: Fishing equipment offered via mail order (1967 models). Color ad on back cover.