| Issue | #243 |
| Published | September 1949 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Eleanor Packer (managing editor); Alice Nielson Cobb (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director) |
| 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). |
| Characters | Thumper |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Carl Buettner |
| Inks | Carl Buettner |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Characters | Thumper; Flower |
| Synopsis | Thumper gets new bathing trunks but the swimming hole is dry. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Tony Strobl |
| Inks | Tony Strobl |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Tony Strobl |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. |
| 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. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Jim Pabian |
| Inks | Jim Pabian |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| 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. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Tony Strobl |
| Inks | Tony Strobl |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Tony Strobl |
| 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. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Tony Strobl |
| Inks | Tony Strobl |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Tony Strobl |
| 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. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Tony Strobl |
| Inks | Tony Strobl |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Tony Strobl |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black, red, and white. |
| Characters | Thumper; Friend Owl |
| Synopsis | Friend Owl is trying to sleep, but Thumper is playing hopscotch and keeping him awake. |
| Genre | funny animals |
| Pencils | Tony Strobl |
| Inks | Tony Strobl |
| Colors | ? (Western Publishing Production Shop) |
| Letters | Tony Strobl |
| Notes | Back cover. "Hopscotch" is spelled as two words in the story. |