Tom & Jerry Comics #82

Tom & Jerry Comics #82 was published in 1952 by Dell Comics, a prominent publisher that dominated the mid-century market through its partnership with Western Publishing. This issue belongs to a golden age of licensed animation comics, a period when the studio-to-print pipeline ensured that the slapstick energy of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated shorts translated into a format accessible to a broad audience of children during the post-war era.

The interior artwork for the series during this period was often produced by the talented pool of artists at Western, frequently including notable contributors like Harvey Eisenberg, who helped define the visual language of the characters on the printed page. These comics were designed to capture the frantic, dialogue-light humor of the shorts while adhering to the strictly wholesome standards of the Comics Code, resulting in a series that was critically received as a reliable, high-circulation staple of the era's newsstands.