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Tom & Jerry Comics, #181

Published: August 1959

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Tom & Jerry Comics #181

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Issue Contents:
Get the Point, Tom? (1)
1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Storyline

Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy are on a diving board, and Tuffy is about to poke Tom with his fishing spear.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
Credits
Kraft Candies. Good, Like All Kraft Foods
Story 1 1 page

"Kraft Fudgies are nice to bite into, creamy good, wonderful tasting!"

Characters
  • little girl eating Kraft Fudgies.
Credits
Story Notes

Ad for Kraft Fudgies chocolate candy. Color ad on inside front cover.

First Prize Guys (1)
Story 2 10 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"(Yawn!) Being awakened by the alarm isn't so bad!"

Storyline

When Tom learns that Jerry and Tuffy are contest winners of a big cash prize, he bends over backward and twists himself in knots, trying to earn their favor.

Characters
  • Tom
  • Jerry
  • Tuffy
  • restaurant waiter
  • Terry the Terror (tough cat)
  • contest representative
  • two dancing mice
Credits
Baby Rattled (1)
Story 3 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Yes, I am all prepared to care for the baby and will call for the little darling today!"

Storyline

When he gets news of a coming baby, a jealous Tyke acts like a human baby to get attention from the mistress.

Characters
  • Spike
  • Tyke
  • Spike and Tyke's mistress
  • veterinarian
  • little girl
Credits
Too Cool for Comfort
Story 4 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

""Gee, it sure is hot today," Bertie Bird chirped one warm summer afternoon."

Storyline

Looking to cool off on a hot summer day, Bertie and Billie fly to an airfield thinking that airplane propellers are giant fans and become involuntary passengers on a test flight.

Characters
  • Bertie Bird
  • Billie Bird
Credits
Fastest (Squirt) Gun in the West (1)
Story 5 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Omigosh! Look, Wuff!"

Storyline

After some quick fire-extinguishing with his squirt gun, Wuff inadvertently gains a reputation as a fast gun. Such a reputation always brings challengers... lots of them, with real guns.

Characters
  • Wuff the Prairie Dog
  • Sammy Squirrel
  • Bushy Hare
  • Flash Lizard
Credits
The Foiled Falconer (1)
Story 6 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"This is a good place to camp, M'sieur Poosycat!"

Storyline

The Mouse Musketeers save a duck that M'sieur Poosycat is hunting with a falcon.

Characters
  • Mouse Musketeers [Jerry
  • Tuffy]
  • M'sieur Poosycat [Tom]
  • duck
  • falcon
Credits
Rocket Slip (1)
Story 7 5 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Ah! The Child Guidance Hour!"

Storyline

Barney fears that Fuzzy and Wuzzy are building a rocket ship to fly to the moon, but he is hampered by listening to a radio child psychologist who insists that "The wise parent will not interfere with his child's efforts to explore the great unknown!"

Characters
  • Barney Bear
  • Fuzzy
  • Wuzzy
Credits
Story Notes

Story reads like Michael Maltese. Especially so as, about this time, he was writing Augie Doggie for television and contributing scripts to Western Publishing. Similar to an Augie Doggie cartoon.

Hair Raiser Droopy (1)
Story 8 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

"I've always wondered what a sheep dog's eyes looked like... Now I know!"

Storyline

Droopy scares a sheep dog in order to get a look at his eyes.

Characters
  • Droopy
  • sheep dog
Credits
Story Notes

Top half of page. Three panels of story, plus the "Dell Pledge to Parents"

Win a Free Magic Vacation
Story 9 1 page

"Hollywood - Disneyland - Pacific Ocean Park for you and your parents"

Story Notes

Ad for the F-500 Fury 500-shot cap machine gun and a "Design a New Toy" contest offering a California trip as a prize. Lower half of page.

For Prizes Out of This World at No Cost
Story 10 1 page

"Or Cash Profits"

Story Notes

Ad for Junior Sales Club of America, offering prizes or money for the sales of "all occasion cards" and "Christmas card assortments". Color ad on inside back cover.

"Fresh Up" Freddie says: "Right Now, you're probably asking yourself - How does a lumberjack get a quick, refreshing lift?"
Story 11 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals

""I'm a lumberjack - and I'm in a jam! I'm beaten to a pulp trying to un-mix these crazy mixed up sticks.""

Storyline

Fresh Up Freddie's difficulties as a lumberjack are followed by a refreshing cold 7-Up.

Characters
  • Fresh Up Freddie
Story Notes

Color ad on back cover. Illustrated ad for Seven-Up soft drink featuring Fresh Up Freddie. Part of the "Fresh Up Freddie says:" series.