Dates
- Cover date
- August 1977
- On sale
- June 1977
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #297 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Whitman edition
Whitman
Whitman branding on the cover.
Barcode 0335009005808 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- The Pains of Painting · 10 pages
Jerry and Tuffy blame their mischievous ways on their being "underprivileged", so Tom takes them to an art museum to "bring out their better qualities". There, the mice are taken with a mural of modern art and Tom, in an unusual gesture of generosity and kindness, buys them a complete set of paints and other art supplies to stimulate their newfound creativity. For his troubles, Tom is driven daffy by the art-obsessed mice painting their modernist-murals all over the house.
- Mexican Jumping Mice · 5 pages
Fed up with Jerry and Tuffy's snoring, Tom scoops-up the mice and dumps them in Mexico, locking them in a shed with a bunch of Mexican mice. He then learns that a Mexican cat's master will pay one peso for each mouse caught, and doubles back for Jerry and Tuffy and their new Mexican mouse friends - who've become much harder to catch for having swallowed Mexican jumping beans. To complicate matters, the mice have hopped across the border into the United States.
- Bats and Rats · 10 pages
From a distance, Tom mistakes two bats for Jerry and Tuffy and believes the mice have learned how to fly.