Most storylines revolved around their attempts to steal "grub" from the local storekeeper Hank (who often shoots at the Three Bears with his blunderbuss for trying to rob him).

[15][16] The first re-launch was drawn by Bob Dewar, and the second originally by David Parkins, who drew it for much of the mid-1990s, then Robert Nixon later on.

The strip appeared again in 2000, when, after being a 'Guest Star' since the previous year, it was voted into the comic by Beano readers, beating Tricky Dicky, Inspector Horse and Jocky and Gordon Bennett.

In the 2009 annual they were drawn by Hunt Emerson, appearing alongside another Western-themed Beano star, Little Plum.

The Three Bears made a cameo appearance in the 2022 Beano annual, in two panels of a Betty and hse Yeti.

Bryan Talbot's graphic novel series Grandville - set in a world of anthropomorphised animals - features a cameo by the bears as a musical hall act called Les Baxendales.