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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published September 1970
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 164
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Pencil Puzzle Fun promo (ad from the publisher) "Kids!!! Know What One Pencil Can Do?"

Characters Cracky
Script ? (promo copy)
Notes Advertisement for Pencil Puzzle Fun #1 with a listing of many of the kinds of puzzles in it and a reprint of the front cover.

2 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents page"

Letters Typeset
Notes Contents page with title of each story, the pages they are in the book and the indicia.

16 page Tom and Jerry story "High Hat Hero"

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Reggie Van Loot (cameo)
Synopsis Jerry and Tuffy want Tom to help them build a birdhouse but he is too interested in being seen golfing with his new hat so Jerry and Tuffy tag along to ruin his fun so that he will help them.
Genre Funny Animals
Pencils Lynn Karp
Inks Lynn Karp
Editing Helen Mayer (Original Editor)
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #4 (July 1957)

1 page Barney Bear activity "Barney Bear's Blabber Puppet"

Characters Barney Bear
Notes How to make a hand puppet.

6 page Little Quacker story "Daddy Long Legs"

Characters Little Quacker
Synopsis Little Quacker gets into trouble when he tells a coyote child that his daddy (which he doesn't have since he's an orphan) can beat the coyote's daddy.
Genre Funny Animals

6 page Wuff the Prairie Dog story "The Flying Coyote"

Characters Wuff the Prairie Dog; Sammy Squirrel; Charlie Coyote; Benjamin Buzzard; Beatrice Buzzard; Egbert Buzzard
Synopsis Wuff and Sammy go to play in the snowy mountains so that Charlie Coyote can't get them so he befriends a confused buzzard to help him.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Tom and Jerry activity "Cheese Decoder"

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Notes A word puzzle.

3 page text article "The Homing Pigeon"

Genre Fact
Notes Various facts about how homing pigeons have been used in wars and the past, including information about how far they can fly and their sense of direction.

8 page Fuzzy and Wuzzy story "The Mystery Light"

Characters Barney Bear; Fuzzy; Wuzzy; Philo Fox
Synopsis Fuzzy and Wuzzy go into the woods to check out a mysterious light. They see someone burying something so they dig it up and find an egg. While trying to take the egg to the person who buried it to find out what it is Phil Fox steals it from them. They find out the egg is really an explosive and try to get to Philo Fox before it blows up.
Genre Funny Animals

6 page Jerry and Tuffy story "Just Imagine"

Characters Jerry; Tuffy
Synopsis Jerry & Tuffy want to go out of town on a camping trip but they know they can't so they pretend they are camping in a store window. They are afraid they will get caught so they go to sleep in the cooking pot to wait until the store is closed. They get a big surprise when a camper buys the display and takes them into the wild.
Genre Funny Animals
Pencils Lynn Karp
Inks Lynn Karp
Editing Helen Mayer (Original Editor)
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #4 (July 1957)

1 page Charlie Coyote activity "Charlie Coyote's Night Job"

Characters Charlie Coyote
Notes A word puzzle.

8 page Bertie Bird story "A Hero Happening"

Characters Bertie Bird; Red Robin; Mrs. Wren; Jimmy Jay; Al the Alley Cat; Crummy Crow; Crawly Crow
Synopsis Bertie Bird is jealous of Red Robin who is a hero for rescuing a baby bird from Al, the Alley Cat so he goes looking for a way to be a hero too. After many attempts go bad he finally gets to be a hero but nobody believes him.
Genre Funny Animals

10 page Tom and Jerry story "School of Hard Knocks"

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Synopsis Jerry tries to teach Tuffy to be smarter than Tom and Tom tries in vain to stop him.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Benny Burro activity "Benny Burro's Riddles"

Characters Benny Burro
Notes Riddles

7 page Skrewy the Screwball Squirrel story "The Channel Swim"

Characters Skrewy the Screwball Squirrel; Chief
Synopsis Skrewy asks the Indian Chief where he is going in his strange outfit and he says he is going to be the first indian to swim the Catalina Channel. Skrewy decides that there is money to be made so he goes with to help the Chief train and to drive the pilot boat.
Genre Funny Animals
Script Kellog Adams ?
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #2 (July 1955)

10 page The Adventures of Tom story "Agent Tom"

Characters Tom; Skinny Jones
Synopsis Agent Tom is sent to Tumbleweed Town to protect them from the "Fat Bandit", who doesn't turn out to be what he seems.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Jerry and Tuffy activity "Letter Quiz"

Characters Jerry; Tuffy
Notes A word puzzle.

6 page Flip 'n' Dip story "Unforgettable Picnic"

Characters Flip; Dip; Jumble
Synopsis Jumble the elephant invites flip and dip on a picnic with him. They are happy to go because they can't go home for lunch without taking a bath but they are sure that Jumble's mama must have forgot something for the picnic but he says that elephants never forget. Flip 'n' Dip try to find something that was forgot but it turns out that Jumble is right.
Genre Funny Animals
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Picnic Time (Dell, 1958 series) #1 (July 1958)

9 page Mouse Musketeers story "Mutineer Mice"

Characters Mouse Musketeers [Jerry; Tuffy]; M'sieur Poosycat
Synopsis The king puts the Mouse Musketeers in charge while he is gone but when they start bossing around M'sieur Poosycat he shanghais them onto his boat where he is in charge (he thinks).
Genre Funny Animals
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Picnic Time (Dell, 1958 series) #1 (July 1958)

1 page Tom activity "Tom's Haywire P-Puzzler"

Characters Tom
Notes A find-the-objects puzzle.

9 page Big Spike and Little Tyke story "The Sea Dogs"

Characters Spike; Tyke
Synopsis Spike and Tyke are tired of vacationing on the farm so they try to get their master to go to the seashore. At the beginning they have trouble getting him to understand but they get better as they go along.
Genre Funny Animals
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Picnic Time (Dell, 1958 series) #1 (July 1958)

1 page Droopy filler "A Golden Giggle"

Characters Droopy
Synopsis Droopy uses his artistic talents to get himself into a jam and then out of it.
Genre Funny Animals

8 page Jerry and Tuffy story "Summer Outing"

Characters Jerry; Tuffy
Synopsis Jerry and Tuffy go for a picnic in the woods but a pushy duck tries to ruin their fun by putting up signs that stop them from doing anything. Jerry and Tuffy decide that turnabout is fair play.
Genre Funny Animals
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Picnic Time (Dell, 1958 series) #1 (July 1958)

4 page text story "Wild Stallion"

Characters Brave Crow; Face-to-the-Enemy; Bear Man (Paiute brothers)
Synopsis Three Paiute brothers are too poor to buy horses so they use their speed and endurance to tire them out so that they can catch wild ones.
Genre Western
Pencils Tom Gill
Inks Tom Gill
Reprinted from Indian Chief (Dell, 1951 series) #15 (July-September 1954) [original layout=2 pages]

1 page Mooseface McElk activity "Web of Words"

Characters Mooseface McElk
Notes A word puzzle.

6 page Jerry and Little Quacker story "Sea Salts"

Characters Jerry; Little Quacker
Synopsis Jerry gets the urge to go out on the sea but he can't board the boat because of the rat blocks. He sees a duck (Little Quacker) that is trying to get out to sea but can't get past the pilings. Little Quacker says that Jerry can ride on his back out to sea if he will help direct him past the pilings, but once they get out on the sea it isn't what they were hoping for.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Jerry and Tuffy activity "Hungry Mice"

Characters Jerry; Tuffy
Notes A picture word puzzle.

11 page Droopy story "Boy Scout Capers"

Characters Droopy
Synopsis Droopy is frustrated when it seems that everywhere he goes there is a sign saying "no dogs allowed". When he tries to go to boy scout camp and there is a "no dogs allowed" sign there he sneaks in to try on one of their uniforms. He is mistaken for a real boy scout and gets to find out what they do during the day.
Genre Funny Animals
Reprinted from Tom & Jerry Summer Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #2 (July 1955)

1 page Screwy Squirrel activity "Screwy Definitions"

Characters Screwy Squirrel
Notes A picture word game.

15 page Tom and Jerry story "The Campers and the Cub"

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Synopsis When Tom and Jerry don't feel like fighting they decide to go on a picnic instead. When a little bear cub sees them he is excited because he has had fun watching them fight in the past. When they don't fight he gets bored and starts whispering instructions on them to get them fighting, but his instructions have the opposite effect.
Genre Funny Animals

1 page Summer Fun For Boys and Girls promo (ad from the publisher) "Summer's Fun!!!!"

Script ? (promo copy)
Notes Advertisement for the Summer Fun For Boys and Girls Magazine, which is a collection of summer activities including puzzles, games, coloring pages, things to make, riddles, cutouts and quiz questions. Includes a reprint of the cover.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Jokes By Cracky"

Characters Cracky
Genre Humor
Script ? (promo copy)
Notes Advertisement for Jokes By Cracky #2, including an illustration and a small reprint of the cover.