Marilyn Lightstone
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Heathcliff volume 42
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Iggy is trying to master playing the trombone. Despite Iggy's best efforts, Heathcliff does everything he can to sabotage his musical talent and discourage him from continuing. The more Grandma and Grandpa Nutmeg enjoy Iggy's music, the more irritated Heathcliff becomes. / Cleo's cousin Lindsay arrives, and Riff Raff is "volunteered" to show her around town. Lindsay is an obnoxious loudmouth, and even though Riff Raff doesn't like her, Cleo gets...
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Heathcliff volume 36
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Mugsy and Spike challenge Iggy and Heathcliff to a soap box racer competition. Iggy builds a great car out of odds and ends Heathcliff gathers from around the neighborhood. The alley cats join in with a junk-racer of their own, and after a fierce contest fraught with conflict and sabotage, Heathcliff stands alone in the winners circle.
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Heathcliff volume 72
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Heathcliff shows up at Sonja's place to take her out for their anniversary. In turn, each of them recants the story of their first date. Heathcliff's memory is filled with gallantry and expensive restaurants. Sonja remembers it quite a different way. In the end, Heathcliff points out that what's important is that he did remember it was their anniversary. Sonja counters, telling him their anniversary isn't until tomorrow...and that's when he can...
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Heathcliff volume 60
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Marcy dresses Heathcliff in baby clothes and is pushing him down the street, when two crooks disguised as mother and child rob a jewelry store. The police confuse the duos and throw Heathcliff in jail! Undaunted, our courageous cat escapes his cell, apprehends the true offenders, and surfaces a hero. / Much to Riff Raff's dismay, his mother is coming to town to see the beautiful mansion he wrote her he lived in. Riff Raff, in a frantic attempt...
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Heathcliff volume 80
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Heathcliff is romping through the fish market, the fish monger in pursuit, when he comes face to face with the skeleton of the jaws of a shark. The shock creates a state of amnesia for Heathcliff. He wanders aimlessly about town, trying to remember who he is. The alley cats and Spike take full advantage of the situation, telling Heathcliff he's their butler. Eventually, Heathcliff wanders to a mission for down and out pets. Iggy, broken-hearted,...
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Heathcliff volume 19
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Heathcliff is trying to sleep in a vacant lot when he is disturbed by a noisy construction crew. To revenge his loss of sleep, Heathcliff single-handedly destroys the new structure and hides all of the workers' tools. / Cleo wants to take a trip, so Riff Raff packages her and the other cats up and sends them through the mail to what he believes to be a ski report. However, the gang end up in a wild animal park where they have endless adventures...
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Heathcliff volume 46
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Heathcliff notices Spike and the Alley Cats are missing from the neighborhood. He discovers them, along with many other stolen animals, in a "second hand pet shop" in a bad part of town. The crooks who operated the shop try in vain to catch Heathcliff, but he defeats them and sets all the other animals free.
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Heathcliff volume 21
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Iggy and Marcy take Heathcliff along shopping for an anniversary gift for Grandma and Grandpa Nutmeg. Heathcliff seizes every opportunity to cause mayhem in the department store, and even tries to swipe a rhinestone collar for Sonja to replace the one she's recently lost. On the way home, Heathcliff finds Sonja's lost collar in the grass, which makes him a hero.
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Heathcliff volume 49
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Heathcliff and Mungo meet the great cat-wrestler, Boom Boom Pussini. In Heathcliff's usual antagonistic manner, he prompts Boom Boom into a fight to be held at the Catatorium in one week's time. Heathcliff is so sure that he can win that Mungo can't even get him to train. When the time comes to fight, Heathcliff doesn't play fair when he unties Boom Boom's shoes laces to get the upper hand on the professional wrestler. / At a beach party, Mungo...
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Heathcliff volume 28
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A big, muscle-bound cat named Pecs tries to take Sonja away from Heathcliff, so he starts working out in order to beat Pecs at his own weightlifting game. Unfortunately, the manager of the gym is in cahoots with Pecs, and throws Heathcliff every possible curve. Heathcliff catches on, and throws the curves right back. Sonja is his in the end. / Riff Raff sees a picture of a cat that looks like Mungo in the paper for which a reward is offered. The...
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Heathcliff volume 24
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The nutmegs are snowed in and Heathcliff has cabin fever. He accidentally locks himself out in the snow, and while outside, helps police apprehend the dangerous Ski-Mask Fugitive.
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Heathcliff volume 48
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Mugsy insults Marcy at the tennis club, and Iggy challenges him to a match to defend Marcy's honor. Heathcliff assists Iggy with various antics. After making a chaotic mess of the tennis club, Iggy and Heathcliff emerge victorious. / Mungo cooks up a batch of his mother's secret recipe, and everyone really loves it. So much, in fact, that Riff Raff opens a cat restaurant in the junkyard selling only Mungo's food. A famous cat restaurant reviewer...
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Heathcliff volume 26
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When the local policeman warns Heathcliff that any more of his pranks will land him in jail for life, our little monster decides he'd better reform. And when a new cat gang moves into town to terrorize the neighborhood, Heathcliff is forced to stand passively by and let them take over his territory. But it isn't long before the policeman is back knocking on Heathcliff's door; only this time he's come to ask Heathcliff's help. Heathcliff can do...
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Heathcliff volume 75
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Heathcliff's thrilled to learn his mom is coming to visit, but terrified she'll discover he's been fibbing about living with a wealthy family. Enlisting Sonja's aid, Heathcliff pretends to live in her mansion. Between dodging Marcy and Iggy in the neighborhood and the maid and butler inside the mansion, Heathcliff has his hands full keeping up a fat-cat front. Finally, Heathcliff confesses to Mom. After meeting the Nutmegs she wonders why Heathcliff...
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Heathcliff volume 59
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Heathcliff, eating the Nutmeg's out of house and home, is sent out to earn his own tuna money. He lands a job on a tuna boat where he tangles with the bad dog from a nearby pirate trawler who has just stolen their entire catch. / Mungo finds half of a treasure map in the junkyard, and the Catillac Cats take off for the desert to search for the lost booty. There they run into Pecos, a cat prospector who just happens to have the other half of the...
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Heathcliff volume 41
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When a local restaurant owner hires two guard dogs to keep Heathcliff out of the garbage, Heathcliff dresses in a cape to become "The Phantom." The dogs are no match for our hero, and in the end the restaurant owner hires Heathcliff to keep his establishment free of mice. / Pearls are discovered in the drainage ditch swimming hole in the junkyard. Flooding, rainmaking and boat sinking are all a part of "oyster fever". Hector has to lose all in...
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Heathcliff volume 35
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When Iggy is sick, he gets so much special attention from Grandma Nutmeg that Heathcliff pretends to be sick. At first, he loves the royal treatment, but the charade suddenly backfires when the Nutmegs take Heathcliff to the vet.
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Heathcliff volume 61
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Spike's mother is coming to visit, so he pleads with Heathcliff to let it appear that he runs things around the neighborhood. Spike says he'd be a disgrace to his family if they knew he was second to a cat. Heathcliff refuses on the grounds that he doesn't want his neighborhood misrepresented, and continues to torment Spike at every opportunity. However, Heathcliff quickly learns that he is no match for Spike's mother. / Riff Raff talks Catillac...
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Heathcliff volume 52
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Heathcliff breaks into prison to save his father just as his father is released. Heathcliff is locked up and begins terrorizing the entire prison, while Pop moves in with the Nutmegs and begins terrorizing the neighborhood. In the end, a trade is made, and both cats return to their rightful places.