I will use this season to talk about the characters of casper franchise, and I will start with caper because he is the main character.... Duh, The objetive is this section is learning more about the characters and introducing new ones.
Casper was created in the 30′s by seymour reit as a character that was supposed to appear in a book series, however the author sold the character to paramount that started to produce animated shorts about the character, starting with “there is a good boos tonight” that was a big success, a ghost that was afraid of being scary was a really original idea, and kids loved it.
A ghost that disliked to scare humans and prefered making friends, sadly for casper his undead condition doesn't make him exactly popular among people, animals, and even he was rejected byhis fellow ghosts for being so friendly, Casper was something new a monster that usually scares children turned into a loveable cartoon character later Havey comics repeated the same formula by created Wendy the little whitch and Hot stuff the little devil, which are also characters based of the fears of childhood (whitch and devil respectively).
A ghost that disliked to scare humans and prefered making friends, sadly for casper his undead condition doesn't make him exactly popular among people, animals, and even he was rejected byhis fellow ghosts for being so friendly, Casper was something new a monster that usually scares children turned into a loveable cartoon character later Havey comics repeated the same formula by created Wendy the little whitch and Hot stuff the little devil, which are also characters based of the fears of childhood (whitch and devil respectively).
The character was incredible popular, so Harvey comics started to publish a comic book series with the friendly ghosts as main character, later they bought the characters and created most of his supporting characters such as wendy, ghostly trio, spooky, Hot stuff the little devil, nightmare and a big ect.
Originally casper was supposed to be a dead child in his first apparence but alfred harvey, editor of harvey comics, thought this idea as too dark for a character targeted to young audiences, so officially they changed his backstory, ghost are just magical creatures unrelated to humans in most of his comics,
The comics succefully increased casper's popularity, then Harvey bought the rights of the character and started to make a new casper cartoon in 1957, the friendly ghost became so popular that in some moment in the 60´s he was the second more popular cartoon only after mickey mouse.
Originally casper was supposed to be a dead child in his first apparence but alfred harvey, editor of harvey comics, thought this idea as too dark for a character targeted to young audiences, so officially they changed his backstory, ghost are just magical creatures unrelated to humans in most of his comics,
The comics succefully increased casper's popularity, then Harvey bought the rights of the character and started to make a new casper cartoon in 1957, the friendly ghost became so popular that in some moment in the 60´s he was the second more popular cartoon only after mickey mouse.
Casper appeared in a movie trilogy in the 90′s that also was used as inspiration for an animated spin-off, title the spooktacular new aventures of casper, that was big success, however Havey comics got bankrupt in 1995 and casper populary went downhill since then, casper’s scare school and Casper and the spectrals were his last appearances, but dreamworks bought casper and the harvey characters in 2012 so casper will make his comeback, we just need to wait.
Name: Casper
Species: Ghost
First appareance: There is goof boos tonight
Powers: flight, invisibility, intangibility, shape shiffitng.
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