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Tom & Jerry Comics, #131

Published: June 1955

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Tom & Jerry Comics #131

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Issue Contents:
Watermelon Ceded (1)
1 page humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Jerry pops-up from inside Tom’s watermelon, causing Tom to have second thoughts about eating it. .

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
Credits
Story Notes

Eisenberg art credit by Joe Torcivia. November 2019. Previous indexer listed Lynn Karp.

You’d Spend a Dollar for This Wallet Alone!

Featuring Dell Comics; Tom and Jerry

Story 1 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"…But it doesn’t cost you a penny if you subscribe now to Tom and Jerry Comics."

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Credits
Story Notes

Tom invites readers and parents to subscribe to Tom and Jerry Comics and receive a "handsome blue and red wallet... made of strong, durable vinyl plastic that looks and feels like real leather". The ad includes the "Dell Comics Pledge to Parents", and repurposed figures of Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy drawn by Harvey Eisenberg. Other art is not by Eisenberg.

Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet (1)
Story 2 10 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"I'm in a cake-bakin' mood today!"

Storyline

Tom bakes a very delicate cake, that could fall with the slightest jarring, while Jerry and Tuffy become determined to noisily crack a large number of walnuts they've just harvested.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Credits
Story Notes

Fourth-Wall Flouting: Jerry directly addresses the readers on page ten, panel six, to close the story. The gags in this story, as Tom more and more desperately tries to keep the quiet – lest his cake be ruined, are evocative of the very first Tom and Jerry animated theatrical short: *“Puss Gets the Boot”* (1940).

Whose House Is It, Anyway? (1)
Story 3 5 pages humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Good night, pooches! I'm goin' in the house now!"

Storyline

Tired of sleeping outside in a doghouse, Spike and Tyke decide to spend the night in their master’s house. The master does not share their feelings, leading to a battle of wits.

Characters
  • Spike
  • Tyke
  • Spike and Tyke’s master
  • police officer
Credits
Bertie Bird Delivers the Mail
Story 4 2 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

""Chee!" Bertie Bird exclaimed, as a piercing whistle rang out in Apple Tree Lane. "What's that?""

Storyline

Bertie helps a mailman by retrieving a letter taken by a mean dog.

Characters
  • Bertie Bird
  • Suzie Sparrow
  • mailman
  • big black dog
Credits
Swim-Flammed (1)
Story 5 2 pages humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Can we go swimming, Ma?"

Storyline

Ma wants Pop to lifeguard for Flip 'n' Dip when the kids go swimming, but Pop fears she wants him for house cleaning chores.

Characters
  • Flip
  • Dip
  • Ma
  • Pop
  • Harry Hippo
Credits
Story Notes

“Copyright 1955 by Western Printing & Litho Co.” Not MGM characters.

Motorized Mayhem (1)
Story 6 5 pages humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

"I'd better see what those kids are up to!"

Storyline

Fuzzy and Wuzzy wreak havoc with an old discarded motor.

Characters
  • Barney Bear
  • Fuzzy
  • Wuzzy
Credits
A Hole-In-One-Hundred (1)
Story 7 5 pages humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

"How did you like that meal, Sammy?"

Storyline

Tommy Toad, an eccentric golf-playing tourist, uses Wuff’s hole-in-the-ground for his impromptu golf game. When he is captured by Charlie Coyote, Wuff and Sammy save him and confound Charlie by digging many more holes to surround and camouflage Wuff’s own hole.

Characters
  • Wuff the Prairie Dog
  • Sammy Squirrel
  • Charlie Coyote
  • Tommy Toad
Credits
Umbrella Boat (1)
Story 8 2 pages humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Look, Jerry! Who's afraid of the Big Bad Fish!"

Storyline

Jerry and Tuffy use an overturned clear-plastic umbrella as a glass-bottomed boat, and narrowly escape a swordfish.

Characters
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
  • swordfish
Credits
The Big One That Got Away! (1)
Story 9 1 page humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Using a can of small fish as “live bait”, Droopy snags a fish so huge it frightens him on home – where he pan-fries the remainder of his live bait for dinner.

Characters
  • Droopy
  • big fish
  • bait merchant (arm and hand only)
Credits
Story Notes

Pantomime.

Tom Foolery
Story 10 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"If you place the first letter of each of these objects in the proper space, you’ll know what the telephone operator said to Tom!"

Storyline

Use the first letter of each word represented by a picture (wing, rooster, etc.) to spell out the message.

Characters
  • Tom
  • telephone operator
Credits
Story Notes

Black and white on inside back cover. Approximately half of page. Lower half is "Droopy's Dippy Questions...".

Droopy's Dippy Questions!
Story 11 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Where was King Solomon's Temple?"

Storyline

Six riddles from Droopy.

Characters
  • Droopy
Credits
Story Notes

Black and white on inside back cover. Approximately half of page. Upper half is "Tom Foolery".

Yippee! Ride it Cowboy!

Featuring Schwinn

Story 14 1 page

"The Schwinn Corvette 3-speed middleweight bike"

Characters
  • kid dressed as a cowboy
Story Notes

A kid in cowboy outfit casts his lasso around some Schwinn bicycle advertising copy. Color ad on back cover.