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Balloon Trail

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

Synopsis: Jerry holds a rising balloon by its string. Tuffy holds Jerry by the tail. Tom holds Tuffy by the tail.

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Kids!!! Know What One Pencil Can Do?

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Feature(s): Western Publishing Company; Golden Pencil Puzzle Fun

Character(s): Cracky; boy; girl

First Line: It can bring hours of fun and entertainment with Golden's new Pencil Puzzle Fun

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for Golden Special Pencil Puzzle Fun #1 with a listing of many of the kinds of puzzles in it and a reprint of the front cover. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

Contents Page

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Golden Comics Digest

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Pages: 2

Notes: Contents page with title of each story, the pages they are in the book and the indicia.

High Hat Hero

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Reggie Van Loot (cameo)

First Line: If that cap is all it takes to make the society page, I'll buy one!

Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy want Tom to help them build a birdhouse but he is too interested in being seen golfing with his new hat so Jerry and Tuffy tag along to ruin his fun so that he will help them.

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M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun #4 [unnamed variant] published July 1957
was High Hat Hero [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 16

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

Barney Bear's Blabber Puppet

Activity on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Barney Bear

First Line: You can make a puppet just like Barney's, that blabbers, even bites... out of just an ordinary brown paper lunch bag!

Synopsis: How to make a hand puppet of out a brown paper bag.

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Pages: 1

Daddy Long Legs

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Little Quacker

Character(s): Little Quacker; possum; possum's dad; Charlie Coyote; Charlie's son; crane

First Line: I say my father can whip your father!

Synopsis: Little Quacker gets into trouble when he tells a coyote child that his daddy (which he doesn't have since he's an orphan) can beat the coyote's daddy.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Reproduced for digest in original four-tier format. Rectangular dialogue balloons.

The Flying Coyote

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Wuff the Prairie Dog; Sammy Squirrel; Charlie Coyote; Benjamin Buzzard; Beatrice Buzzard; Egbert Buzzard

First Line: Oh-oh! Charlie Coyote!

Synopsis: Wuff and Sammy go to play in the snowy mountains so that Charlie Coyote can't get them so he befriends a confused buzzard to help him.

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M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry's Winter Fun #6 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1957
was Wuff, the Prairie Dog and the Flying Coyote [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

Cheese Decoder

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

First Line: Maybe Tom can't crack Jerry and Tuffy's code because he doesn't eat cheese... but you can!

Synopsis: The holes in a slice of swiss cheese are used to decode a secret message.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Reprinted from an undetermined issue. Most likely from March of Comics.

The Homing Pigeon

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction

First Line: Some years ago, a homing pigeon died in Detroit, Michigan, and the death was noted in much of the world.

Synopsis: Various facts about how homing pigeons have been used in wars and the past, including information about how far they can fly and their sense of direction.

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Pages: 3

Notes: © 1962, Western Publishing Company, Inc. Not MGM characters.

The original printing, in Tom and Jerry (Western, 1962 Series) #214 (February 1963), was a one-page text article with a single illustration. For Golden Comics Digest #13, it has been reformatted in a different typeset, expended to three pages with only minor alterations in wording, and given three new illustrations – omitting the single illustration of the original printing.

The Mystery Light

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Fuzzy and Wuzzy

Character(s): Barney Bear; Fuzzy; Wuzzy; Philo Fox; scientist

First Line: EE-YOWIE!

Synopsis: Fuzzy and Wuzzy go into the woods to check out a mysterious light. They see someone burying something so they dig it up and find an egg. While trying to take the egg to the person who buried it to find out what it is Philo Fox steals it from them. They find out the egg is really an explosive and try to get to Philo Fox before it blows up.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Formatted for digest as four oblong panels per page.

Just Imagine

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Jerry; Tuffy; camping store salesman; camper; bear

First Line: I wish we could get out of town on a camping trip, Jerry!

Synopsis: Jerry & Tuffy want to go out of town on a camping trip but they know they can't so they pretend they are camping in a store window. They are afraid they will get caught so they go to sleep in the cooking pot to wait until the store is closed. They get a big surprise when a camper buys the display and takes them into the wild.

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M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun #4 [unnamed variant] published July 1957
was Just Imagine [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

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

Charlie Coyote's Night Job

Activity on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Charlie Coyote

Character(s): Charlie Coyote

First Line: To find out what Charlie does at night put the first letter of each numbered object in this scene in its proper space across the bottom of the page!

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A Hero Happening

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Bertie Bird; Red Robin; adoring fans of Red Robin (birds); Mrs. Wren; Jimmy Jay; fly; spider; Al the Alley Cat; Crummy Crow; Crawly Crow

First Line: Three cheers for Red Robin...

Synopsis: Bertie Bird is jealous of Red Robin who is a hero for rescuing a baby bird from Al, the Alley Cat so he goes looking for a way to be a hero too. After many attempts go bad he finally gets to be a hero but nobody believes him.

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Pages: 8

Notes: The original printing, in M.G.M.’s Tom and Jerry Winter Fun (Dell, 1954 Series) #3 (December 1954), was an untitled six-page story in Dell/Western’s standard four-tiers-per-page panel layout. For Golden Comics Digest #13, a story title has been added, and it has been reformatted to three tiers per page.

The word "happening", in the title "A Hero Happening", might not have been used if 1954's original version had been titled, as it acquired an additional meaning as an "in" type of "occurrence" during the counterculture movement of the 1960s.

School of Hard Knocks

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy

First Line: Gee, Jerry, you mean if I study my lessons real hard, I will some day become the smartest mouse in the world?

Synopsis: Jerry tries to teach Tuffy to be smarter than Tom and Tom tries in vain to stop him. Each envisions a "nightmare version" of the other's effect on Tuffy.

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Pages: 10

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Benny Burro's Riddles

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Benny Burro

Character(s): Benny Burro

First Line: What day of the year is a command?

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The Channel Swim

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Skrewy Squirrel; Chief

First Line: Hi, Chiefie... Where you going in that craaazy outfit?

Synopsis: Skrewy asks the Indian Chief where he is going in his strange outfit and he says he is going to be the first indian to swim the Catalina Channel. Skrewy decides that there is money to be made so he goes with to help the Chief train and to drive the pilot boat.

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M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun #2 [unnamed variant] published July 1955
was The Channel Swim [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Agent Tom

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Skinny Jones; auto mechanic; sheriff; townspeople

First Line: Okay, Agent Tom... your car cannon is working again!

Synopsis: Agent Tom is sent to Tumbleweed Town to protect them from the "Fat Bandit", who doesn't turn out to be what he seems.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Formatted for digest as two vertical panels per page.

Letter Quiz

Activity on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Jerry; Tuffy

First Line: Identify the two objects which Jerry and Tuffy are holding in the picture and cross out the letters in these squares which spell the names of those objects.

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Pages: 1

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Unforgettable Picnic

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Flip 'n' Dip

Character(s): Flip; Dip; Jumble (elephant); Mama Elephant

First Line: Summer is nice because our mud pies bake so fast, eh, Dip?

Synopsis: Jumble the elephant invites flip and dip on a picnic with him. They are happy to go because they can't go home for lunch without taking a bath but they are sure that Jumble's mama must have forgot something for the picnic but he says that elephants never forget. Flip 'n' Dip try to find something that was forgot but it turns out that Jumble is right.

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M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry Picnic Time #1 published July 1958
was Unforgettable Picnic [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

Mutineer Mice

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Mouse Musketeers [Jerry; Tuffy]; M'sieur Poosycat; The King

First Line: Mouse Musketeers, I'm going down by the water where it's cool!

Synopsis: The king puts the Mouse Musketeers in charge while he is gone but when they start bossing around M'sieur Poosycat he shanghais them onto his boat where he is in charge (he thinks).

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M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry Picnic Time #1 published July 1958
was Mutineer Mice [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 9

Tom's Haywire P-Puzzler

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Tom

Character(s): Tom

First Line: There are eight mistakes in this picture, as well as twelve items beginning with the letter "P". Can you find them all?

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Pages: 1

Notes: A find-the-objects puzzle. Reprinted from an undetermined issue.

The Sea Dogs

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Spike; Tyke; Spike and Tyke's master; beachgoers

First Line: I love my vacations in the country! The other places are so crowded!

Synopsis: Spike and Tyke are tired of vacationing on the farm so they try to get their master to go to the seashore. At the beginning they have trouble getting him to understand but they get better as they go along.

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M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry Picnic Time #1 published July 1958
was The Sea Dogs [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 9

A Golden Giggle

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Droopy; bulldog

Synopsis: Droopy uses his artistic talents to get himself into a jam and then out of it.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime.

Summer Outing

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Jerry; Tuffy; duck

First Line: Have lunch, will travel!

Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy go for a picnic in the woods but a pushy duck tries to ruin their fun by putting up signs that stop them from doing anything. Jerry and Tuffy decide that turnabout is fair play.

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M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry Picnic Time #1 published July 1958
was Summer Outing [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 8

Wild Stallion

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: western

Character(s): Brave Crow; Face-to-the-Enemy; Bear Man (Paiute brothers)

First Line: Three Paiute brothers came down out of the hills laden with supplies and weapons.

Synopsis: Three Paiute brothers are too poor to buy horses so they use their speed and endurance to tire them out so that they can catch wild ones.

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Indian Chief #15 published July 1954
was Wild Stallion [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint layout=4 pages; original layout=2 pages

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Pages: 4

Web of Words

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Mooseface McElk

Character(s): Mooseface McElk

First Line: All words read from outside toward center!

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Sea Salts

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Jerry and Little Quacker

Character(s): Jerry; Little Quacker; bird; shark

First Line: (Sniff!) What's that I smell?

Synopsis: Jerry gets the urge to go out on the sea but he can't board the boat because of the rat blocks. He sees a duck (Little Quacker) that is trying to get out to sea but can't get past the pilings. Little Quacker says that Jerry can ride on his back out to sea if he will help direct him past the pilings, but once they get out on the sea it isn't what they were hoping for.

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Pages: 6

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Hungry Mice

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Writer(s): ?

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Jerry and Tuffy

Character(s): Jerry; Tuffy

First Line: What was the last thing the mice had before they went to bed?

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Pages: 1

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Boy Scout Capers

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Droopy; Boy Scouts; scoutmaster

First Line: Ah, summertime! Now for a stroll in the park!

Synopsis: Droopy is frustrated when it seems that everywhere he goes there is a sign saying "no dogs allowed". When he tries to go to Boy Scout camp and there is a "no dogs allowed" sign there he sneaks in to try on one of their uniforms. He is mistaken for a real Boy Scout and gets to find out what they do during the day.

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M-G-M's Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun #2 [unnamed variant] published July 1955
was Boy Scout Capers [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 11

Screwy Definitions

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Skrewy Squirrel

First Line: Skrewy Squirrel has some screwy ideas about what makes the world go 'round!

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Pages: 1

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The Campers and the Cub

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; bear cub; bee; papa bear

First Line: Ho hum! I don't feel like fighting with old Tom today, Tuffy!

Synopsis: When Tom and Jerry don't feel like fighting they decide to go on a picnic instead. When a little bear cub sees them he is excited because he has had fun watching them fight in the past. When they don't fight he gets bored and starts whispering instructions on them to get them fighting, but his instructions have the opposite effect.

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M.G.M.'s Tom and Jerry Picnic Time #1 published July 1958
was The Campers and the Cub [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 15

Summer's Fun!!!!

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Feature(s): Western Publishing Company; Summer Fun for Boys and Girls

First Line: And so is Golden's brand new Summer Fun for Boys and Girls!!!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for the Summer Fun for Boys and Girls Magazine, which is a collection of summer activities including puzzles, games, coloring pages, things to make, riddles, cutouts and quiz questions. Includes a reprint of the cover. Black and white on inside back cover.

What's better than being #1?

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Western Publishing Company; Jokes by Cracky

Character(s): Cracky; girl; boy

First Line: Number 2!!! Jokes by Cracky #2!

Synopsis: A girl peddles hard on a bicycle-built-for-two (and one parrot), while Cracky and a boy enjoy the ride.

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Notes: Advertisement for Jokes by Cracky #2, including an illustration and a small reprint of the cover. Color ad on back cover.