Our Gang Comics Featuring Tom and Jerry

Published
1945
Page count
52?
Cover price
6d [0-0-6 AUP]
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Matte colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic
Branding
None

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled Cover, 1 page
Show/hide 1. Untitled (Our Gang) Comic story, 14 pages

"All air raid wardens have to know the diff'rent kinds of poison gases."

Featuring

Feature
Our Gang
Genre
Humour; children
Characters
Our Gang [Froggie; Janet; Buckwheat; Mickey; Happy]; Mr. Grotch; a police officer

Credits

Writing
Walt Kelly, scripter
Art
Walt Kelly, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Oscar Lebeck, original Editor [as Oskar Lebeck]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Our Gang Comics (Dell, 1942 series) #4 (March-April 1943)
Untitled
Show/hide 2. [Unknown] (Barney Bear) Comic story, ? pages

Featuring

Feature
Barney Bear
Genre
Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Show/hide 3. Untitled (Benny Burro) Comic story, 7 pages

"I'll betcha I'm the most lonesomest burro in all the world!"

Featuring

Feature
Benny Burro
Genre
Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Characters
Benny Burro; Barney Bear; Jack Frost

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Oscar Lebeck, original Editor [as Oskar Lebeck]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Our Gang Comics (Dell, 1942 series) #4 (March-April 1943)
Untitled
Show/hide 4. Mrs Ladybug Comic story, 4 pages

Featuring

Genre
Anthropomorphic-funny animals

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art (illustration)
Text
, typeset
Editing
Oscar Lebeck, original Editor [as Oskar Lebeck]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Our Gang Comics (Dell, 1942 series) #4 (March-April 1943)
Mrs. Ladybug

Notes

"Based on the M.G.M. cartoon. Copyright, 1943, by Loew's Inc."

Show/hide 5. Untitled (Tom and Jerry) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Tom and Jerry
Genre
Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals
Characters
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Dinah

Credits

Writing
Gaylord Du Bois, scripter
Art
John Stanley, line art
Text
John Stanley, letterer
Editing
Oscar Lebeck, original Editor [as Oskar Lebeck]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Our Gang Comics (Dell, 1942 series) #5 (May-June 1943)
Untitled [The Trap]

Notes

Pencils, inks, and letters credits from _John Stanley in the 1940s: A Comics Bibliography_, Frank M. Young, self-published, 2012. The previous indexer suggested Dan Gormley may have worked on the art.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1984). Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta, February 2014.


Notes

Stories in this issue have been traced or redrawn.

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AusReprints ID

  • 92218

Entry created

  • 01/11/2021

Cover added

  • 01/11/2021

Last updated

  • 02/11/2021