Four Color #19 - Walt Disney's Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs
(1943)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
On-sale Date
1943-03-16
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielsen Cobb (story editor); Carl Buettner (art director)

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S THUMPER MEETS THE SEVEN DWARFS, No. 19." No code number. Copyright 1942, 1943 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).
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1943 Pamphlets, page 178.

Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs (Table of Contents)

Thumper / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Thumper; The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Sleepy; Sneezy; Bashful; Happy; Grumpy; Dopey]

[Cast of Characters] (Table of Contents: 1)

Thumper / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Thumper; The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Happy; Sleepy; Bashful; Sneezy; Grumpy; Dopey]; Flower; Friend Owl; Giant
Synopsis
Cast of characters.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; color. Full-page illustration with word balloons.

Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs (Table of Contents: 2)

Thumper / comic story / 64 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Buettner
Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
Western Publishing Production Shop
Letters
Carl Buettner

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Thumper; The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Sneezy; Sleepy; Grumpy; Dopey; Bashful; Happy]; Flower; Friend Owl; Giant; Giant's wife
Synopsis
Thumper goes on a quest to find the "end of the world." He falls in a hole, which leads to the Seven Dwarfs' diamond mine. After spending the night at the Dwarfs' house, Thumper takes a drink from a "wishing well." Thumper wishes to meet a giant and is captured by one. He is taken to the giant's castle to be kept as a pet. Thumper wishes for Doc and Dopey to help him and they magically appear in the castle and help him escape. After a series of adventures, Thumper wishes the trio was back in the Dwarfs' house.
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Indexer Notes

Letters credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Story features many large panels, including two full-page panels and a two-page spread across the centerfold.

[Laughing in Front of Thumper's House] (Table of Contents: 3)

Thumper / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Thumper; The Seven Dwarfs [Dopey; Grumpy]
Synopsis
Grumpy and Thumper are laughing at Dopey, who is on his hands and knees coming out of the short front door of Thumper's house.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; color.

[Dancing Around] (Table of Contents: 4)

Thumper / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Buettner
Inks
Carl Buettner
Colors
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Thumper; The Seven Dwarfs [Doc; Dopey]
Synopsis
Doc, Dopey, and Thumper are dancing.

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs
    Thumper
  2. 1. [Cast of Characters]
    Thumper
  3. 2. Thumper Meets the Seven Dwarfs
    Thumper
  4. 3. [Laughing in Front of Thumper's House]
    Thumper
  5. 4. [Dancing Around]
    Thumper
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Pat Conolly
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Mike Nielsen