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Tom & Jerry Comics, #131

Published: June 1955

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Issue Contents:
Watermelon Ceded

Story Featuring Tom and Jerry

Storyline

Jerry pops-up from inside Tom’s watermelon.

Credits
Story Notes

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

The Big One That Got Away!

Story Featuring Droopy

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.

Credits
Story Notes

Pantomime.

Motorized Mayhem

Story Featuring Barney Bear with Fuzzy and Wuzzy

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

Storyline

Fuzzy and Wuzzy wreak havoc with an old discarded motor.

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A Hole-In-One-Hundred

Story Featuring Wuff, the Prairie Dog

"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.

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Swim-Flammed

Story Featuring Flip 'n' Dip

"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.

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Story Notes

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

Nutcracker (Not So) Sweet

Story Featuring Tom and Jerry

"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.

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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).

Umbrella Boat

Story Featuring Jerry and Tuffy

"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.

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Bertie Bird Delivers the Mail

Story Featuring Bertie Bird

""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.

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Whose House Is It, Anyway?

Story Featuring Big Spike and Little Tyke

"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.

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Yippee! Ride it Cowboy!

"The Schwinn Corvette 3-speed middleweight bike"

Story Notes

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

Droopy's Dippy Questions!

Story Featuring Droopy

"Where was King Solomon's Temple?"

Storyline

Six riddles from Droopy.

Credits
Story Notes

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

Tom Foolery

Story Featuring Tom and Jerry

"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.

Credits
Story Notes

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

You’d Spend a Dollar for This Wallet Alone!

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

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.