Fictional cartoon touch

Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical performance animated cartoon series of the same name. He is a pleasant, personable and translucent haunt, [ 4 ] but often criticized by his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio. The character was featured in 55 theatrical performance cartoons made between 1945 and 1959. [ 5 ] The quality has been featured in comic books published by Harvey Comics since 1952, [ 6 ] and Harvey purchased the character instantaneously in 1959. Casper became one of Harvey ‘s most popular characters, headlining dozens of comic book titles.

Following Harvey ‘s purchase of the character, he appeared in five television series : Matty’s Funday Funnies ( 1959–1961 ), The New Casper Cartoon Show ( 1963–1970 ), Casper and the Angels ( 1979–1980 ), The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper ( 1996–1998 ) and Casper’s Scare School ( 2009–2012 ). [ 7 ] The character made a theatrical-film appearance in a live-action adaptation released by Universal Pictures, Casper ( 1995 ), becoming the first gear ever computer-generated fictional character to star in a movie, [ 8 ] and he would late appear in four direct-to-video and made-for-TV follow-up films .

creation of Casper the Friendly Ghost [edit ]

Casper was created in the late 1930s by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, the erstwhile devising the mind for the quality and the latter provide illustrations. [ 9 ] initially intended as the basis for a 1939 children ‘s storybook, there was at first base little interest in their estimate. When Reit was away on military service during World War II before the book was released, Oriolo sold the rights to the book to Paramount Pictures ‘ Famous Studios animation division for a total of $ 175. This erstwhile requital was all that he received, missing out on a share of the tax income earned from the films, amusing books and trade to come. [ 10 ] The Friendly Ghost, the beginning Noveltoon to feature Casper, was released by Paramount in 1945 with a few differences from the book. In the cartoon adaptation, Casper is a cunning ghost-child with a New York accent who inhabits a haunted theater along with a community of pornographic ghosts who delight in scaring the know. Casper, however, is a nonconformist among ghosts : he would prefer to make friends with people. He packs up his belongings and goes out into the world, hoping to find friends. however, the animals that he meets ( a cock, a breakwater, a vomit, a mouse named Herman, and a group of hens ) take one horrified expression at him, yell : “ A ghost ! ” and run off in the other direction. Distraught, Casper unsuccessfully attempts to commit suicide ( apparently forgetting that he is already all in ) by lying down on a railroad track cut before an oncoming string, before he meets two children named Bonnie and Johnny who become his friends. The children ‘s mother, obviously widowed and impoverished, at first is frightened of Casper, but former welcomes him into the family after he unintentionally frightens off a greedy landlord, who, unwilling to own a “ frequent ” house, tears up the mortgage and gives her the house outright. The light ends with the mother kissing Bonnie, Johnny, and Casper as she sends them off to school, with Casper wearing clothing as if he were a live child. Casper appeared in two more subsequent cartoons, There’s Good Boos To-Night and A Haunting We Will Go. There’s Good Boos To-Night differs wildly from later Casper cartoons : although the theme of Casper trying to find a acquaintance and failing in these attempts before succeeding besides occurs in by and by cartoons, the tone of this short turns signally dark when a hunter and his dogs appear, chasing the little dodger cub named Ferdie that Casper has befriended. Although Casper scares the hunter and dogs away, Casper discovers Ferdie dead after a harrow chase scene. Happily, however, Ferdie returns as a ghost to join his acquaintance Casper in the afterlife. These were late adapted into Noveltoons before Paramount started a Casper the Friendly Ghost series in 1950, and ran the theatrical performance releases until summer 1959. Although having much success, the serial was late criticized by animation historians and viewers, [ citation needed ] chiefly due to the report of each entry of the series as being largely the same : Casper ( nowadays slenderly thinner than the dumpy figure that appeared in the earlier cartoons ) escapes from the afterlife of a regular ghost because he finds that scaring people can be boring year after year, tries to find friends but unwittingly scares about everyone, and finally finds a ( cunning little ) acquaintance, whom he saves from some screen of destine, leading to his acceptance by those initially scared of him. In 1955, composer Winston Sharples composed an instrumental theme for Casper ‘s cartoons .

Harvey Comics [edit ]

Casper the Friendly Ghost #1 (March 1991) Cover of # 1 ( March 1991 ) Casper was first published in comics shape in August 1949 by St. John Publications, running for five issues until September 1951. In 1952, Alfred Harvey, founder and publisher of Harvey Comics began producing Casper amusing books. Casper first appeared in Harvey Comics Hits # 61 ( Oct 1952 ), and then moved to a solo book with Casper the Friendly Ghost # 7 ( December 1952 ). [ 11 ] In 1959, Harvey purchased the rights to the quality instantaneously. Casper went on to headline a large number of comic book series, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as appearing in back up stories and guest appearances in early titles. The Casper series inspired three democratic spinoffs : Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, Wendy the Good Little Witch, and The Ghostly Trio. Casper ‘s titles include :

  • Casper
  • Casper Adventure Digest
  • Casper and…
  • Casper and Friends
  • Casper and Friends Magazine
  • Casper and Nightmare
  • Casper and Spooky
  • Casper and The Ghostly Trio
  • Casper: A Spirited Beginning (film adaptation)
  • Casper Big Book
  • Casper Digest
  • Casper Digest Stories
  • Casper Digest Winners
  • Casper Enchanted Tales Digest
  • Casper Ghostland
  • Casper Giant Size
  • Casper Halloween Trick or Treat
  • Casper in Space
  • Casper in 3-D
  • Casper Magazine
  • Casper Movie Adaptation
  • Casper Space Ship
  • Casper’s Ghostland
  • Casper’s Scare School
  • “Casper’s Haunted Christmas”
  • Casper Special
  • Casper Strange Ghost Stories
  • Casper, the Friendly Ghost
  • Casper TV Showtime
  • Famous TV Funday Funnies
  • The Friendly Ghost, Casper
  • Harvey Two-Pack
  • Nightmare and Casper
  • Richie Rich and Casper
  • Richie Rich, Casper, and Wendy
  • TV Casper and Company
  • Casper and the Spectrals

In 2009, a new Casper comic was published, called Casper and the Spectrals by Arden Entertainment. much like The Man of Steel and Batman: Year One did with their respective characters, it revamped Casper and respective other Harvey characters for a new consultation. After selling 6,400 copies of the first comic, the last two issues were published in 2010 .

television [edit ]

Casper has starred in five television shows : [ 12 ]
After Harvey bought the rights to Casper and many other celebrated properties in 1959 ( including Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey ), they began broadcasting the post-September 1950 theatrical Famous shorts on a television appearance sponsored by Mattel Toys titled Matty’s Funday Funnies on ABC in 1959 which introduced the Barbie doll to the populace. The other Famous produced Casper cartoons had already been acquired by television distributor U.M. & M. television receiver Corporation in 1956. U.M. & M. retitled just “ A Haunting We Will Go ”, but credited “ Featuring Casper The friendly Ghost ” as “ Featuring Casper ‘s friendly Ghost ”. New cartoons were created for The New Casper Cartoon Show in 1963, besides on ABC. The original Casper cartoons were syndicated under the title Harveytoons ( initially repackaged as Casper and Company ) in 1963 and ran continuously until the mid-90s. Casper has remained popular in reruns and trade. Hanna-Barbera Productions besides gave Casper two vacation specials, Casper’s First Christmas ( which besides starred Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy ) and Casper’s Halloween Special ( aka Casper Saves Halloween ), and besides the Saturday good morning cartoon series Casper and the Angels ( an animated parody on two live-action hit shows Charlie’s Angels and “CHiPS” ) in the fall of 1979, all on NBC. besides featured on the NBC interpretation was a big ghost named Hairy Scary ( voiced by John Stephenson ). none of Casper ‘s original co-stars appeared in the testify. In 1996, Amblin Entertainment and Universal Cartoon Studios created a new Casper series for Fox Kids called The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, based on the 1995 feature, that lasted two years and was never seen on television receiver again after 1998. Two live-action direct-to-video follow-ups to the film, Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy ( which introduced Hilary Duff as boyfriend Harvey Comics character Wendy the Good Little Witch ), were made. They were followed by Casper’s Haunted Christmas ( starring Spooky and Poil from the comics and animated by-product of the first gear movie ), and Casper’s Scare School, which were done entirely in CGI with no live-action elements. These films are often referred to as being “ prequels ” to the 1995 feature [ citation needed ] despite the fact that they heartily contradict the feature and do not appear to even take position in the lapp universe. In 2007, MoonScoop Group, in association with classic Media, TF1 et DQ, produced a television receiver show of 52 X 12 named Casper’s Scare School. In 2020, Casper appeared in a support function in the “ Scare Bud ” episode of Harvey Girls Forever!, a series based on Harvey Comics characters. [ 13 ]

Films [edit ]

The Famous Studios adaptation of Casper was scheduled to appear as a cameo in the delete fit “ Acme ‘s Funeral ” from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. [ 14 ] numerous Casper cartoons were released on dwelling television by Universal Studios ( via MCA Inc. ), which besides adopted the friendly ghost into a live-action feature film titled Casper in 1995, where he and his disgusting uncles, the Ghostly Trio, were rendered via computer animation, which initially created the first base CGI lead character in a film. The film constructed a back-story for the character and is the only time in the series that the motion of his death has been addressed. According to the film, Casper was a twelve-year-old male child be in Whipstaff Manor with his inventor founder J.T. McFadden until he died from pneumonia after playing out in the cold until it was by twilight. In 2001, Harvey Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media which, until 2012, licensed the Harvey properties including Casper. [ 15 ] Casper made a cameo in a MetLife commercial along with several other cartoon characters in 2012. late that like year, authoritative Media was acquired by DreamWorks Animation, which in turn would be acquired by NBCUniversal in 2016, and therefore Universal Studios, the manufacturer of the master live-action feature movie, now manages the rights to the character and early related characters in addition to regaining the rights to Casper’s Haunted Christmas ( which Universal itself in the first place released in late 2000 ). In 2019, Casper made an appearance in a GEICO commercial. [ 16 ]

Actors who have voiced or portrayed Casper [edit ]

Friends/Supporting characters [edit ]

Enemies [edit ]

home media [edit ]

In 2011, Shout ! factory released a DVD laid titled Casper The Friendly Ghost: The Complete Collection 1945-1963 which contains The Friendly Ghost, There’s Good Boos To-Night, A Haunting We Will Go, 55 theatrical cartoons, and all 26 episodes of The New Casper Cartoon Show .

personal computer and video games [edit ]

Casper [edit ]

several video games were based on the 1995 film for personal computer, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Saturn, 3DO, PlayStation, and Game Boy Color. In subsequent years Windows 95 and Game Boy Advance games were released serving adenine sequels to the film .

Casper: A Spirited Beginning Activity Center [edit ]

Developed by Sound Source Interactive, published by WayForward Technologies and released in 1998 for personal computer it is based on the film of the lapp name and is like in format to Disney ‘s Activity Center. Set at Ghost Central Station the player earns Casper coins by completing Casper ‘s Spinning Squares, Stretch ‘s Memory Game, Fatso ‘s Kitchen, Stinkie ‘s Goo Toss and Snivel ‘s Mix & Match. The player must collect at least 15 Casper coins from these five games to unlock Kibosh ‘s Magic Puzzle .

Casper: Friends Around the World [edit ]

Developed by Realtime Associates, published by TDK Mediactive and released in 2000 on PlayStation. It is a by and large 2D side-scrolling platform game with periodic forward and back movements. The evil Kibosh has invented a device to send Casper ‘s human friends to a place where they “ would not have a ghost of a prospect of being found ” and has hypnotized the Ghostly Trio into doing his bidding. however Casper finds a page from a map of Hollywood giving him a clue on where to start his quest to find his friends and the three missing pieces for Kibosh ‘s imprisoning device to get them back home safely. The game is played across ten-spot levels set around the world with 40 friendship crystals on each level to collect in club to advance to the bonus level at the end .

Casper: Spirit Dimensions [edit ]

Developed by Lucky Chicken Games and published by TDK Mediactive it was the first gear 3D game, to have a movable bet on camera, based on Casper. It was released in 2001 for PlayStation 2 and in 2002 for Nintendo GameCube. The evil Kibosh has taken over the Spirit World and is purpose on besides taking over the mortal earth. meanwhile, Wendy the Good Little Witch summons Casper, the only remaining free ghost, and opens the portals to the Spirit Dimensions to help in their only probability to defeat Kibosh .

Casper and the Ghostly Trio [edit ]

Developed by Data Design Interactive and Published by Blast ! entertainment it was released in 2007 on PlayStation 2. It is a three-d game in which Casper has legs and is affected by graveness though he can glide, unlike his flying ability in Spirit Dimensions. The Ghostly Trio have kidnapped Wendy the Good Little Witch in an attempt to use her magic to create a potion that would give them the power to rule Ghostland. Wendy manages to use her magic trick to get the message across to Casper who must find his way through six levels to rescue her. At the conclusion of the first five levels is a bonus stage in which Casper must collect as many jewels as he can while avoiding the Trio ‘s lightning which is chasing him .

Casper’s Scare School [edit ]

A series of three games, for PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and Wii, based on the calculator animated movie and television series of the same appoint released in 2008 and 2009 .

other Usages [edit ]

  • On radio programs, customized or made-up cartoons of Casper the Friendly Ghost were popular on Baltimore’s “Brian and O’Brien” morning radio show on WBSB-FM throughout parts of the mid-1980’s.[32]
  • An early Maya king of Quirigua bears the nickname “Casper.”

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