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British annuals are normally a collection of new and reprint material with color and black and white interiors. Published annually in hard cover, they are dated, if at all, one year ahead of the copyright. Most annuals contain illustrated text stories, comic strips and features such as puzzles, games, sometimes-even articles. Annuals based on TV shows often carry many photos from the show. The art, mainly unaccredited, is average to good. Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical short subjects (cartoons) created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence. The book, 79 pages, colorfully illustrated. It contains 8 strips.