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Issue Details

Issue #323
Published October 1979
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes May be published in both Gold Key and Whitman editions per logos on covers. Contents copyright 1955, 1958 indicates that all content may be reprints.

Cover Details

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Genre funny animals
Notes Cover has been re-colored.
Reprinted From Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 Series) #170 (September 1958)

1 page Captain Marvel advertisement "Captain Marvel Returns To Earth!"

Characters Captain Marvel [Mar-vell]; three children
Synopsis Captain Marvel returns to earth just in time to save three children from a rockslide, by pulverizing the rocks to sand so fast that the children never even stop munching their Hostess Twinkies.
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes Printed in inside front cover. Comic strip ad for Hostess Twinkies from Continental Baking Company. Sal Buscema and Joe Sinnott credit from auction of original art on Heritage Auction Galleries in January 2006.

10 page Tom & Jerry story "Cool Cat"

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; lady of the house
Synopsis Tom feigns fainting to get the lady of the house to buy an air conditioner. He becomes annoyed at the mice and tosses them out of the house, and they spend the rest of the day fighting over access to the air conditioned house.
Genre funny animal

5 page Big Spike & Little Tyke story "Dog Fights"

Characters Spike; Tyke; Peewee; mean dog
Synopsis A mean dog trys to pick a fight with the little dogs, but Spike helps to fool him into thinking they are all bigger dogs, so the mean dog leaves town.
Genre funny animal

5 page Mouse Museketeers story "Bathtime Blues"

Characters Mouse Musketeers (Jerry; Tuffy); Tom; the King
Synopsis Tom and the Musketeers decide to take baths and get their water too hot, so the King helps them cool it down and then uses it all for his own bath. When he goes to sleep, Tom and the mice try to get a rainstorm inside on him, but the King manages to get them all wet instead.
Genre funny animal

1 page Bertie Bird text story "A Crabby Day"

Characters Bertie Bird; Billie Bird; fishermen; a crab
Synopsis Bertie and Bille sing to get some food scraps from fishermen on a beach and a crab scares them back home.
Genre funny animal
Notes Test story with an illustration.

1 page Droopy story "Dirty Shame"

Characters Droopy; cat; lady of the house
Synopsis Droopy observes a homeless cat receiving food and tries to get the same treatment by looking muddy, but he only gets a bath.
Genre funny animal