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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published December 1957-February 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
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Cover Details

Characters Spike; Tyke
Synopsis Spike watching Tyke swing on a bone swing.
Genre Funny animals
Reprinted in Tom und Jerry (Neuer Tessloff, 1959 series) #14

1 page Dell Comics Subscriptions promo (ad from the publisher) "Dell Comic Christmas Gift Subscriptions Are the Best!"

8 page Big Spike and Little Tyke story "Open Doghouse"

Characters Spike; Tyke; Bowser; Scotty
Synopsis On Christmas Eve Spike and Tyke go looking for their friends but none of them are home. The dogcatcher then chases them all through a store before he finally catches them by dressing up like Santa Claus. Instead of taking them to a pound he takes them to his house to join all of their friends having a party.
Genre Funny animals

8 page Big Spike and Little Tyke story "Spike, Junior"

Characters Spike; Tyke; Spike Junior
Synopsis Tyke convinces Spike to adopt a dog from next door because he wants a brother. They bring the dog home and name him Spike Junior. Unfortunately, Spike Junior has been raised by cats and now he acts like a cat. Spike doesn't like this so Tyke tries to teach Spike Junior to act like a dog. He can't do it but eventually Spike Junior gets Tyke to do something that cats do. Spike takes Tyke and Spike Junior back to the cat he got him from and says that when they want to act like dogs they can come back to his house.
Genre Funny animals

6 page Big Spike and Little Tyke story "The Beggars"

Characters Spike; Tyke
Synopsis Spike and Tyke beg for sausage links from a butcher who gives them some. The butcher told them to go on home so Spike says they have to wait until they get home to eat them. By the time they get home the sausages are frozen, so they start an old log on fire to cook them. The old log turns out to belong to a rabbit and after they can't find a new home for him he takes over their doghouse. Because they burned up his food with his home they now have to go beg for carrots for him.
Genre Funny animals

1 page Sammy Squirrel and Wuff, the Prairie Dog text story "The Rare Specimen"

Characters Sammy Squirrel; Wuff, the Prairie Dog; Charlie Coyote; Microscope Mike
Synopsis When Sammy and Wuff hear that a scientist is coming to look at their prairie they are very excited and go looking for him. Charlie Coyote overhears them and dresses up like a scientist to catch them. He is so intent on dressing up that he accidently knocks over a can of red paint which he walks through and gets all over his legs. Charlie tricks them with his disguise and is about to capture them when the real scientist shows up and tries to catch him because he is the first coyote he had ever seen with red legs.
Genre Funny animals

4 page Tom and Jerry story "Mousles"

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Synopsis Jerry and Tuffy paint spots on themselves so that Tom will think that they have mousles (mouse measles). They convince him and he runs away. They decide to take the trick one step further and chase him threatening to give him the mousles. They knock Tom into a table with paint cans and when they fall on him he looks like he has measles also, so he starts chasing them again.
Genre Funny animals

4 page Big Spike and Little Tyke story "Winter Coat"

Characters Spike; Tyke; Slug
Synopsis Tyke tries to get Spike to play outside with him but Spike says it is too cold. Tyke figures out that Tyke would come out if he needed to chase a prowler. He then sees a prowler dress up like Santa Claus so he makes sure that their house looks inviting for the thief. When he tells Spike that there is a thief there Spike says that it is Santa and he deserves to take a few things with all of the stuff that he gives. Tyke puts bones in the thief's bag so that Spike will get mad and chase him away. He puts the thief's fake beard and mustache on Spike so that he can go outside and stay warm.
Genre Funny animals

Half page Tom and Jerry Winter Fun promo (ad from the publisher) "There's a Blizzard of Laughs in...Tom and Jerry Winter Fun"

Notes Includes a small stamp-sized reprint of M.G.M.'s Tom & Jerry's Winter Fun (Dell, 1954 series) #6.

1 page Big Spike and Little Tyke story

Characters Tyke
Synopsis Tyke is out hunting with a human who shoots something. Tyke runs to get it and brings back a model airplane that has holes shot in it.
Genre Funny animals
Notes Inside back cover. Pantomime story.

1 page Schwinn bicycle advertisement "The Best Brand on any Bike...Schwinn"