
The numbering continued from the Dell run and ended with issue 344. 1966 (Gold Key)Īfter the split between Dell and Western publishing in 1962 where Western Publishing retained all of the licenses to the comic properties and a good amount of the creative staff, Western Publishing continued producing Tom and Jerry comics with both new and reprinted material under the Gold Key and Whitman imprints until the Western Publishing shut down their comic book division in 1984. Tom and Jerry - The Mouse from T.R.A.P.Four Color (MGM's The Two Mouseketeers) 475, 603, 642 (Dell).

Tom & Jerry Back To School - 1956 (Dell).Comic Album (Tom & Jerry) 4, 8, 12 (Dell).Tom & Jerry - 213-344 (Gold Key/Whitman).Our Gang with Tom & Jerry - 40-59 (Dell).The series continued its numbering into the Western run when the two companies split in 1962. This book series includes other characters from MGM shorts. Unlike the theatrical cartoons, Tom and Jerry speak throughout, as the writers thought the young readers would not figure out what they're up to with out reading their speech balloons.

In this series, Nibbles was referred to as his other name Tuffy. Seven years later, the comic book series was renamed Tom & Jerry. Tom and Jerry first appeared in a comic book series called Our Gang in 1942.

One of the first edition of their own series from Dell Comics (July 1949)
