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Tom & Jerry Comics, #163

Published: February 1958

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Issue Contents:
Model Train with Mini Hoboes

Story Featuring Tom and Jerry

Storyline

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

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Chilled to the Bone

Story Featuring Droopy

Storyline

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

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Story Notes

Pantomime. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

Glass-Bottom Bone

Story Featuring Droopy

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

Storyline

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

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Story Notes

Pantomime. On final interior page of the comic.

Cat on a Hot Tile Roof

Story Featuring Barney Bear with Fuzzy and Wuzzy

"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!

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Duels and Don'ts

Story Featuring Mouse Musketeers

"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.

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Gold is Where You (Don't) Find It!

Story Featuring Wuff, the Prairie Dog

"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.

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Catch as Cat Can

Story Featuring Tom and Jerry

"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.

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The Candy Heart

Story Featuring Bertie Bird

"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.

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Puppy Dogged

Story Featuring Big Spike and Little Tyke

"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?

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The Toy That Grows!

"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!"

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

"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?"

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.