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Tom & Jerry Comics, #148

Published: November 1956

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Tom & Jerry Comics #148

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Issue Contents:
Entrancing Toothpaste (1)
1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Tuffy “charms” the contents of a toothpaste tube, as if it were a snake.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Credits
Beat This Game If You Can!

Featuring Dell Comics

Story 1 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"This is the fascinating "Ke" puzzle - a removable peg game that you can play by your self or with a friend."

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Credits
Story Notes

Offer to subscribe to Tom and Jerry Comics at the normal newsstand price and receive a free "Ke" puzzle game as an additional premium. Color ad on inside front cover. Per the ad copy: "This month Tom & Jerry Comics are offering a FREE "Ke" puzzle game to every new subscriber. All it costs for a full year's subscription... 12 big issues... is $1.20. This isn't any more than you'd pay normally, and we mail each issue to your home when you're a subscriber." The ad includes the "Dell Comics Pledge to Parents", and (repurposed?) figures of Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy which may be penciled by Harvey Eisenberg, but appear to be inked or finished by someone else.

A Study of Tom (1)
Story 2 10 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"(Pant!) Seems like I should be able to (puff!) nab those pests!"

Storyline

To soothe his jangled nerves, Tom takes up knitting. Jerry and Tuffy find this quite curious and, armed with a book of "Cat Facts", begin an intensive study of Tom's behavior and physical characteristics - a process that drives peace-seeking Tom batty.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Credits
Balking Turkey (1)
Story 3 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"What're you looking so sad for, Tyke? Cheer up! It's Thanksgiving Day!"

Storyline

On a snowy Thanksgiving Day, Tyke tries to hide Tom the Turkey from his master's axe.

Characters
  • Spike
  • Tyke
  • Tom the Turkey
  • Spike and Tyke's master
  • Spike and Tyke's mistress
  • male pedestrian
  • female pedestrian
  • cop
  • lady in house
Credits
Flying High
Story 4 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

""Now, children," Mother Bird cautioned Bertie Bird and brother Billie one fine sunny afternoon, "you must be very careful with your little cousin Chubby. Remember he still hasn't learned to fly.""

Storyline

Bertie and Billie try teaching their too-chubby Cousin Chubby to fly, but he can't seem to get off the ground, until spurred to action by the threat of Howard Hawk.

Characters
  • Bertie Bird
  • Billie Bird
  • Mother Bird
  • Cousin Chubby
  • Howard Hawk
Credits
Getting a Job Can Be a Job (1)
Story 5 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Can we borrow a dollar, Unc?"

Storyline

Barney Bear gives nephews Fuzzy and Wuzzy tips on how to find a job, to no avail.

Characters
  • Barney Bear
  • Fuzzy
  • Wuzzy
  • grocer
  • druggist
  • department store manager
  • pedestrians
  • lady shoppers
Credits
Pooling Their Resources to Fight Crime (1)
Story 6 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Whew! The desert heat is awful! What we need is a swimming pool!"

Storyline

In the unusually high desert heat, Wuff and Sammy dream of having a swimming pool. They receive a wanted poster offering a reward for the capture of The Armadillo Kid and devise a trap for the bandit, so they can buy a swimming pool with the reward money. Also suffering from the heat, Charlie Coyote gets the same idea but decides to lay back until Wuff and Sammy spring their trap, and then muscle-in on the reward. Ultimately, and unwittingly, Charlie plays a part in the capture of The Armadillo Kid, forcing Wuff and Sammy to find a safe way to share their new pool with the carnivorous coyote.

Characters
  • Wuff the Prairie Dog
  • Sammy Squirrel
  • Charlie Coyote
  • Lem Lizard (letter carrier)
  • The Armadillo Kid (bandit)
Credits
Pumpkin Puss (1)
Story 7 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Wish I could think of a way to make some holiday money!"

Storyline

Jerry and Tuffy bake a batch of pumpkin pies to sell. Tom muscles-in to take over once the baking work is done.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
  • various pie purchasers
Credits
A Negative Net Result for Droopy! (1)
Story 8 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Droopy catches a red butterfly with a small net just as a dogcatcher catches a Droopy with a bigger net, allowing the red butterfly to fly free.

Characters
  • Droopy
  • blue butterfly
  • kid with butterfly net
  • red butterfly
  • dogcatcher
Credits
Story Notes

Pantomime. Top three tiers of page. On final interior page of the comic. Bottom tier is an ad for Dell Comics' Lassie title.

South America... steep mountains, wild rivers, dark jungle... a place for ADVENTURE and DANGER for... LASSIE

Featuring Dell Comics; Lassie

Story 9 0 pages

"Only 10¢ at your favorite Dell Comics dealer"

Characters
  • Lassie
Credits
Story Notes

Ad for Dell Comics' Lassie title. Bottom tier of page. On final interior page of the comic. Shares page with a Droopy comic story (see previous entry). The cover of M-G-M's Lassie (Dell, 1950 Series) #31 (November-December 1956) is reproduced for the ad.

See The Mickey Mouse Club in View-Master Pictures that "Come to Life"
Story 10 1 page

"That's right! Now your famous TV friends are in exciting View-Master pictures."

Storyline

In a color photo, Mickey and four Mouseketeers rehearse for an episode of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Characters
  • Mickey Mouse (drawn in his bandleader costume, as he appeared on The Mickey Mouse Club)
  • Annette (Mouseketeer)
  • Sharon (Mouseketeer)
  • boy Mouseketeer #1
  • boy Mouseketeer #2
Story Notes

Ad for the Sawyer's Inc. View-Master Stereo Viewer. View-Master packets for "Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers" and "Mickey Mouse Club Circus Visits Disneyland" are pictured in the ad. Color ad on inside back cover.

It makes you smile!
Story 11 1 page

"The happy cereal! The happy snack! New fruit-flavor, fruit-color Trix"

Characters
  • Five kids with "Trix-smiles"
Story Notes

This ad for General Mills' Trix cereal presumably dates from when the cereal was a new product, predating its decades-tenured spokes-bunny the Trix Rabbit! The floating heads of five kids are drawn with curved puffs of Trix forming the smiles on their faces. At lower right is a photograph of a bowl of Trix cereal in milk, flanked by a box of Trix with nary a rabbit to be seen. Per Merlin Haas: "According to the General Mills website, Trix was introduced in 1954 and the Trix rabbit first appeared in a TV commercial in 1959." https://www.generalmills.com/news/stories/celebrating-60-years-of-the-trix-rabbit Color ad on back cover.