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Tom & Jerry Comics, #163

Published: February 1958

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Tom & Jerry Comics #163

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Issue Contents:
Model Train with Mini Hoboes
1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Hoboes Jerry and Tuffy, complete with bindle, hop a ride on Tom's model freight train.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Credits
Chilled to the Bone (1)
Story 1 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Droopy needs to find another burying place for a bone because the ground is frozen.

Characters
  • Droopy
  • Droopy's master
Credits
Story Notes

Pantomime. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

Catch as Cat Can (1)
Story 2 10 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Hmm...I must think of a clever way to catch Jerry and Tuffy when they try to steal the cheese today!"

Storyline

Frustrated over his inability to devise an effective trap to snare Jerry and Tuffy, Tom thinks bigger and builds a trap to catch a pair of bank robbers.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
  • big bank robber
  • small bank robber
Credits
Puppy Dogged (1)
Story 3 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Spike, I'm getting a bunch of dogs together to go cat hunting today - want to join us?"

Storyline

Tyke feigns helplessness and getting into trouble so that Spike won't leave him home alone, when the grown-up dogs go cat hunting. Will Spike be able to get away with the guys, or be doomed to baby-sitting?

Characters
  • Spike
  • Tyke
  • Eddie (dog)
  • squirrel
  • Lazy Bones (huge lethargic hound)
Credits
The Candy Heart
Story 4 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"One frosty morning, Bertie Bird flitted restlessly up and down the tree branch that held his nest home in Apple Tree Lane."

Storyline

A bully steals the money little Bobby saved to buy his mother a candy heart for Valentine's Day, but he didn't reckon on the aerial interventions of Bertie and Billie Bird.

Characters
  • Bertie Bird
  • Billie Bird
  • Bobby (boy)
  • bully
Credits
Cat on a Hot Tile Roof (1)
Story 5 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Fuzzy and Wuzzy, your dog chased the cat on the roof again!"

Storyline

Fuzzy and Wuzzy must get their yowling cat off their Uncle Barney's roof... or else!

Characters
  • Barney Bear
  • Fuzzy
  • Wuzzy
  • cat
  • dog
  • mouse
Credits
Gold is Where You (Don't) Find It! (1)
Story 6 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Heh! You won't find any fish in your well, Charlie!"

Storyline

Charlie muscles in on Wuff and Sammy's search for a desert cache of gold.

Characters
  • Wuff the Prairie Dog
  • Sammy Squirrel
  • Charlie Coyote
  • schoolteacher
  • other students
  • whistling bug
  • trade rat
Credits
Duels and Don'ts (1)
Story 7 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"I hope I can sneak away today without running into those Mouse Musketeers!"

Storyline

Seeking a break from the constant clanking of swords, the King forbids any more dueling by the Mouse Musketeers and M'sieur Poosycat... but they continue to find sly ways to get around the restrictive royal decree.

Characters
  • Mouse Musketeers [Jerry
  • Tuffy]
  • M'sieur Poosycat [Tom]
  • King
Credits
Glass-Bottom Bone (1)
Story 8 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Glass-Bottom Boat See the Fish [on sign]"

Storyline

Droopy gets an idea from seeing a glass-bottom boat.

Characters
  • Droopy
Credits
Story Notes

Pantomime. On final interior page of the comic.

The Toy That Grows!

Featuring Dell Comics; Tom and Jerry

Story 9 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Here is one of the most amazing toys ever offered by Dell Comics. Just add water and the Magic Beans will sprout and grow amazingly!"

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Story Notes

Offer to subscribe to Tom and Jerry Comics and receive a "Jack and the Beanstalk Magic Bean Bowl" play set as an additional premium for a total of $1.50. Black and white ad on inside back cover. As pictured in the ad, the "Jack and the Beanstalk Magic Bean Bowl" play set includes a booklet ("The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk"), cut-out stand-ups of Jack, Jack's mother, Jack's house, the cow (traded for the magic beans), the golden egg-laying hen, the magic singing harp, and (of course) the Giant with club in one hand and his bag of gold in the other, and the Magic Bean Bowl all in a handy (presumably) cardboard case. Figures of Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy, looking as if they were badly traced from Harvey Eisenberg's art, surround illustrations of all these goodies. Tom delivers the title-line "The Toy That Grows!" Per the ad copy: "You can get your own Magic Bean Bowl by subscribing to Tom & Jerry Comics. For only $1.50, you'll enjoy 12 exciting issues plus the thrill of watching your Magic Beanstalk grow." The ad also includes the "Dell Comics Pledge to Parents".

Sam's Lingo Lessons

Featuring Seven-Up Presents:

Story 10 1 page teen

"Teacher Would Say: "Students! Come to order immediately!""

Storyline

For each situation - unruly students in class, grumpy diner customer in a hurry, and watching an old-fashioned melodrama on TV - you are given what the teacher, Grumpy Gus, or Heroine Nell would say (in conventional language). This is followed by what Sam would say (in 1950s teen slang). Below this, readers are asked to fill-in "What Would You Say?"

Characters
  • Sam
  • teacher
  • students
  • Grumpy Gus
  • Heroine Nell (on TV)
  • mustache-twirling villain (on TV)
  • horse (on TV)
  • two teen boys and one teen girl watching TV
Story Notes

Three single-panel illustrations with accompanying text below. Oddly, the "old-fashioned melodrama on TV" is seen in color. Color ad on back cover. Illustrated ad for Seven-Up soft drink featuring teen slang. Part of "Nothing does it like Seven-Up!" series.