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Tom & Jerry Comics, #113

Published: December 1953

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Mousetrap Sledding

Story Featuring Tom and Jerry

Storyline

While downhill sledding, Tom is passed by Jerry and Tuffy sledding on a mousetrap.

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Chopping Blocked

Story Featuring Droopy

Storyline

Envisioning a roast turkey dinner, Droopy positions the neck of a huge turkey on the chopping block. When the turkey gets wise, and stares him down, Droopy axes the chopping block into firewood.

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Story Notes

Pantomime

Gliding and Hiding

Story Featuring Wuff, the Prairie Dog

"Let's go visit that old fort in the foothills, Sammy... the one the soldiers used back in the Indian days!"

Storyline

Wuff and Sammy build gliding wings out of balsa wood to best travel a long distance. Hungry Charlie Coyote commandeers an eagle to take him through the air in pursuit.

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Story Notes

Charlie Coyote is colored brown in this story, rather than his usual gray.

Cold Dis-Comfort

Story Featuring Tom and Jerry

"Wintertime is snowball time, eh, Tuffy?"

Storyline

Hopping a freight train to Florida to escape the winter freeze, Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy find themselves locked in a refrigerated rail car for the trip.

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The Moose That Wouldn't Leave!

Story Featuring Barney Bear and Benny Burro

"Well, anyway, the story was funny in Irish dialect, but you get the point -"

Storyline

It's after 11 p.m. and Barney and Benny can't get their annoying guest, the long-winded Mooseface McElk, to leave. How's a bear and a burro gonna get any sleep?

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Story Notes

Pencils are Eisenberg's, but inks and lettering appear to be by someone else.

'Snow-Bunny's Home

Story Featuring The Adventures of Tom

"Nonsense! (see note)"

Storyline

Tom is out to get a rare photo of a snowshoe rabbit, a trickster-bunny that heckles Tom mercilessly.

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Story Notes

With the first line quote "Nonsense!", Tom is reacting to the following passage in a book: "In winter the snowshoe rabbit is so brilliantly white, he cannot be seen in the snow. The snowshoe rabbit is so shy that it is impossible to photograph the animal...".

Dollars and Horse Sense

Story Featuring Barney Bear with Fuzzy and Wuzzy

"Boy, we sure got a perfect likeness of him, eh, Fuzzy?"

Storyline

Barney gives nephews Fuzzy and Wuzzy five dollars to invest, on the condition that they turn a profit. They are conned into buying a broken-down old horse by Farmer Fox but find a way to double their money.

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Crossing Wet Cement

Story Featuring Jerry and Tuffy

"I'll sure be glad to get home, Jerry!"

Storyline

Jerry and Tuffy find a way to cross wet cement without leaving mouse-footprints.

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Bertie Bird Goes to Sea

Story Featuring Bertie Bird

""Hey! Guess what!" said Bertie Bird to his brother Billie one morning. "I'm going to the seashore!""

Storyline

Curious Bertie Bird once again gets into trouble against the warnings of his brother Billie, this time at the seashore where he gets knocked about by waves, taken out to sea by a seagull, and dropped on the deck of a ship.

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Story Notes

Two illustrations of Bertie Bird by Harvey Eisenberg - one on each page.

A Frozen Steak Is No Piece of Cake!

Story Featuring Big Spike and Little Tyke

"Brr... It's sure cold livin' out here, isn't it, Pop?"

Storyline

On a zero-degree temperature day, Spike and Tyke foil a robbery at the neighborhood butcher shop. The grateful butcher gives them a wrapped, frozen steak as a reward... but what are two outdoor dogs to do with a frozen steak in freezing temperatures?

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