(September 1949)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Walt Disney's THUMPER FOLLOWS his NOSE, No. 243." Code number is THUMPER #243-499. (No "O.S." in the code number.) Copyright 1949 by Walt Disney Productions. Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994).
[The Old Swimming Hole]
Thumper / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Tony Strobl
- Inks:
- Tony Strobl
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Tony Strobl
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Thumper; Flower
- Synopsis:
- Thumper gets new bathing trunks but the swimming hole is dry.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
"Thumper Follows His Nose"
Thumper / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jim Pabian
- Inks:
- Jim Pabian
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Thumper; Big Bad Wolf; Three Bears
- Synopsis:
- Thumper finds the Three Bears' house and tussles with his conscience about eating the porridge. He leaves the house but runs into the Big Bad Wolf. To escape the wolf he goes back to the Bears' house and while he's there he eats all the porridge.
"The Li'l Giant"
Thumper / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Tony Strobl
- Inks:
- Tony Strobl
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Tony Strobl
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Thumper; Blossom; Patty; Wiggly Worm
- Synopsis:
- Thumper is depressed when he's told he's just a little bunny. Later he learns that size is relative, when he meets Wiggly Worm, to whom Thumper is a giant.
"Thumper Is a Hero"
Thumper / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Tony Strobl
- Inks:
- Tony Strobl
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Tony Strobl
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Thumper; Blossom; Flower
- Synopsis:
- When lumbermen and hunters threaten the forest, Thumper decides he has to do something. He puts out a fire left by careless hunters and as a reward the forest rangers declare the area a forest preserve.
[Magnetized Acorns]
Thumper / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Tony Strobl
- Inks:
- Tony Strobl
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Tony Strobl
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Thumper; Friend Squirrel
- Synopsis:
- Friend Squirrel can't bury his acorns because he can't find them later. Thumper comes up with the idea of placing each acorn in the center of an iron nut and then finding them with a magnet.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
[Hop Scotch]
Thumper / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Tony Strobl
- Inks:
- Tony Strobl
- Colors:
- ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
- Letters:
- Tony Strobl
Content Information
- Genre:
- funny animals
- Characters:
- Thumper; Friend Owl
- Synopsis:
- Friend Owl is trying to sleep, but Thumper is playing hopscotch and keeping him awake.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. "Hopscotch" is spelled as two words in the story.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
[The Old Swimming Hole]
Thumper -
2.
"Thumper Follows His Nose"
Thumper -
3.
"The Li'l Giant"
Thumper -
4.
"Thumper Is a Hero"
Thumper -
5.
[Magnetized Acorns]
Thumper -
6.
[Hop Scotch]
Thumper
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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